Chicago protest slams CEOs, demands jobs, housing and education
Chicago, IL – Over 3000 teachers, healthcare workers, janitors and community activists descended on the corporate leaders meeting here, June 14 outside the Midwest CEO/CFO conference. The protesters demanded jobs, homes and schools.
Participants shouted, “Banks got bailed out, we got sold out,” as over 15 activists were arrested for sitting down and blocking a street near the hotel meeting site.
The Chicago teachers union, SEIU, UE, Homeless Coalition, Brighton Park Neighbors and many more organizations left the action ready to take on the bankers and rich folk, who are driving millions into poverty, the next time they show their faces in Chicago.