Events and actions in the week before the NATO Summit. If you want to add your event, contact cangate2012@gmail.com
For more details and other events, go to www.natoprotest.org.
05/14/12 Monday
8:00 am
Catholic Worker demonstration at Obama HQ to invite NATO leaders to end war.
130 E. Randolph
10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Health and Wellness Care Resources
Grace Place, 636 S. Dearborn
Hotline: 872-216-5306
3:00 pm
Occupy Chicago Day of Education
Dyett High School, 555 East 51st Street
4:00 pm
Press conference
CACHE and Occupy Chicago welcome all to join the Chicago Teacher’s Union, Kenwood Oakland Community Organization, students and teachers for an art celebration at Money for Education, Not War
6:30 pm to 9:-00 pm
Peace Guide Training – CANG8
Trinity Episcopal Church
125 E. 26th Street
If you or anyone in your organization is planning on being a Peace Guide, this training is mandatory. We are asking local activists to attend this session instead of the session on Saturday so we can assess the peace guide situation.
7:00 pm
Drone Warfare: Medea Benjamin & Rafia Zakaria
Heartland Café, 7000 N Glenwood
Film: Drone Warfare: KILLING BY REMOTE CONTROL
7:00 pm
The Right to Heal Tour
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 S. Halsted
Fighting for service members and veterans right to heal. The right to heal tour will take Iraq Veterans Against the War’s Operation Recovery Campaign message that service members and veterans have a right to heal around the country.
7:00 pm
Film Screening: 5 Days in Denver
Multikulti
1000 N. Milwaukee Ave
Hosted by Chicago World Can’t Wait
7:30 pm
Candlelight Vigil for Palestinian Hunger Strikers
806 N. Michigan Ave.
There is no more time to wait, there is no more time to spare, NOW is the time for action!
05/15/12 Tuesday
10:00 am – 10:00 pm
Health and Wellness Care Resources
Grace Place, 636 S. Dearborn
Hotline: 872-216-5306
10:00 am
CANG8 Press conference
Hyatt Hotel at McCormick Place
2233 S. Martin Luther King Blvd. just south of Cermak Road.
No to NATO/G8 Warmakers
No to War & Austerity
11:00 am
Occupy Chicago action on Immigration
525 W. Van Buren
No Human is Illegal!
Vigil for Family Unity
Detained Court building
6:30 pm
Nakba: Telling the Story. Remember, Retell, Resist
637 S. Dearborn
Join the Chicago Movement for Palestinian Rights (CMPR) in commemorating Nakba Day (May 15) with a night of story-telling, art, dabke and culture. We will remember a pivotal moment in Palestinian history and celebrate Palestinians’ continued resistance to colonialism since 1948.
05/15/12 Wednesday
10:00 am
Action to Demand a One-year Moratorium on Foreclosures and Evictions!
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
230 South La Salle Street
Communities United Against Foreclosure and Eviction and Occupy Chicago demand that Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart STOP all profit-oriented evictions and foreclosures from May 16, 2012 to May 16, 2013.
6:30 pm
Program on Mexico
Calles y Suenos
19th & Carpenter
05/17/12 Thursday
9:00 am
Iraq Veterans Against the War
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
On Riverwalk near East Wacker Dr. and N. Wabash
Press Conference to announce plans for May 20 ceremony against NATO at Cermak and Michigan at the end of the mass CANG8 and IVAW march.
11:00 am
CANG Press Conference with international visitors
8th Day Center For Justice
205 W. Monroe, 5th Floor
12:00 pm
Peace Activists Demand End to NATO Violence at Chicago Obama HQ and Consulates
Obama HQ: 130 E. Randolph
Commemorate innocent victims of US/NATO wars. Then march to Canadian (Prudential Plaza 2), British (400 N. Michigan, Suite 1300), and German (676 N. Michigan, Suite 3200)Consulates. Demand an end to war.
2:00 pm
Occupy Chicago’s Day of Environment: Planet over War!
Jackson and LaSalle
BRING BIKE: Mass for Environmentally Sustainable Transportation
3:00 pm
Rally outside of the Canadian Consulate
80 N. Stetson Ave
GET DIRTY with Occupy Chicago against the Alberta Tar Sands and the environmentally destructive agendas of NATO and G8.
4:00 pm
Press Conference
5:00 pm
Feminist General Assembly (FemGA)
Corner of S. Michigan Ave and E. Monroe St. (next to sculpture garden)
Website: www.womenoccupy.org
6:00 pm
NATO Reps, Protestors to Debate – Public forum
Pritzker Military Library
104 South Michigan Ave.
NATO representatives will meet with members of the largest anti-NATO protest group and Iraq Veterans Against the War for an unprecedented one-hour public debate.
6:00 pm
Sounds of a New Hope
Korean American Resource Center
2701 W. Peterson Ave.
BAYAN USA and ILPS
Film on the hip hop movement in the Philippine struggle for national liberation
6:00 pm
Teach-In on Afghanistan and NATO
Reba Place Church
620 Madison St.
Evanston, IL
Pot Luck and Speaking Event with:
-Medea Benjamin, author of “Drone Warfare: Killing By Remote Control”
-Voices for Creative Non-Violence delegates recently returned from VCNV delegations to Afghanistan
Please bring a dish to share.
6:30 pm
Discussion with Workers World Party: NATO: A tool of the 1%, with Larry Holmes, John Parker, Sara Flounders, and Armando Robles
UE Hall, 37 S. Ashland
7:00 pm
Film Showing: The Killing Floor: An Evening with Elsa Rassbach
5811 S. Ellis, Cobb 307
05/18/12 Friday
8:30 am
Counter Summit for Peace and Economic Justice
People’s Church
941 W Lawrence
www.natofreefuture.org
9:00am – 10:00pm
Health and Wellness Care Resources
Grace Place, 636 S. Dearborn
Hotline: 872-216-5306
9:00 am – noon
Anakbayan USA Founding Congress
Gabriela USA 2nd Congress
11:00 am
National Nurses United: Chicago Rally to Protest Global 1%
Daley Plaza
We must send a message to our world leaders: No more cuts to our communities. Make Wall Street and the banks pay for global recovery.
No Cuts! No Austerity! Tax on Wall Street!
1:00 pm – 6:00 pm
BAYAN USA 4th Congress
3460 W. Lawrence
1:00 pm
Crime Busting March on Chicago’s Climate Crooks!
Daley Plaza, 50 W. Washington
March with the NATO Environmental Justice Alliance around the Chicago Loop as we issue warrants for arrest of the corporations and government organizations responsible for destabilizing our climate!
6:30 pm
Climateactionchicago.org – Dinner & Overview of Summit Events
1447 W. Superior
7:00 pm
Voices for Humanity: Arts to Oppose NATO
St. Luke’s Lutheran Church of Logan Square
2649 N. Francisco Ave.
Unite! Inspire! Resist! An Evening of Arts to Oppose NATO
Singer/songwriter David Rovics headlines an evening of story, poetry, inspiration, resistance to US/NATO war crimes.
05/19/12 Saturday
8:30 am
Counter Summit for Peace and Economic Justice
People’s Church
941 W Lawrence
www.natofreefuture.org
9:00 am – 10:00 pm
Health and Wellness Care Resources
Grace Place, 636 S. Dearborn
Hotline: 872-216-5306
9:30 am
Peace Guide Training for out-of-towners – CANG8
8th Day Center, 205 W. Monroe
If you or anyone in your organization is planning on being a Peace Guide, this training is mandatory. This session is primarily for out-of-town activists who want to be peace guides.
10:00 am – noon
Healthcare Not Warfare! Take the Fight to Rahm’s House!
Irving Park Brown Line stop
The Mental Health Movement is calling on all NATO protesters to occupy the public clinics being closed by Mayor 1% Emanuel. On May 19, NATO demonstrators will take the fight to #SaveOurClinics to the Mayor’s doorstep.
1:00 pm– 5:30 pm
Founding of International League of People’s Struggle, US Chapter
3460 W. Lawrence
$20 admission. Lunch and dinner provided.
6:30 pm
Rising Waters: Global Warming and the Fate of the Pacific Islands
1447 W. Superior
Join us for this documentary, food, and a discussion on climate justice. Learn how to get involved in the environmental contingent for the HUGE march and rally to the NATO summit on Sunday May, 20th.
7:00 pm
David Swanson: Lifting the Shadow of War
615 West Wellington Ave.
David Swanson will speak and lead a discussion on the topic of “Lifting the Shadow of War.”
7:00 pm
Woody Guthrie Centennial concert
Metro
3730 North Clark Street
Tom Morello will headline a musical celebration that honors the 100th anniversary of the birth of legendary American folk hero Woody Guthrie. The once-in-a-lifetime concert is the culmination of a month-long festival of cultural events that celebrate artistic and creative expression as a form of protest, presented by portoluz.
8:00 pm
This is Hell! Fundraiser for CANG8
Cary’s Lounge
2251 W. Devon
In the midst of the NATO protests, take a break to party with the This is Hell! rabble as we raise funds for the Coalition Against NATO/G8 War & Poverty Agenda (CANG8), Saturday, at the 51st Ward’s Designated Free Speech Zone for the evening.
8:00 pm– 11:00 pm
International Cultural Solidarity Night
With Rebel Diaz
$10 admission
05/20/12 Sunday
9:00 am – 10:00 pm
Health and Wellness Care Resources
Grace Place, 636 S. Dearborn
Hotline: 872-216-5306
10:00 am
Bless The March
Washington and Clark
Volunteers needed at prayer service to help with gathering crowd. Bring your families, children, musical instruments, signs, props, cameras, balloons, bicycles, horns, kazoos, funny hats and all other merry-making apparatus.
10:00 am – Noon
Music at
Petrillo Band Shell
Columbus Drive and Jackson, Grant Park, including
10:30am Rebel Diaz
11:00am Tom Morello
Noon
Coalition Against NATO/G8 War & Poverty Agenda Rally & March against the NATO/G8 summits.
05/21/12 Monday
9:00 am – 10:00 pm
Health and Wellness Care Resources
Grace Place, 636 S. Dearborn
Hotline: 872-216-5306
Time: TBD
Shut Down Boeing
100 North Riverside Plaza
Boeing has received over $12,231,152,299 from the US Department of Defense to produce war machines, which are used to terrorize civilians and communities the world over. These tools of destruction are produced using prison labor, allowing Boeing to make weaponized products for pennies on the dollar.