Posted on 09/03/2018 1:58:45 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Protesters billing themselves as "anti-violence" will march along the Kennedy Expressway in Chicago to O'Hare airport where they say they plan to shut the facility down.
Chicago police have offered the protesters alternatives, but it looks like some kind of confrontation is inevitable.
Any disruption could cause major headaches for travelers headed home from holiday weekends. Major David Byrd, spokesman for the Illinois State Police, said authorities will not allow the protest to interrupt traffic.
Byrd said authorities had offered protesters alternative venues for the march, adding that he hoped no arrests would need to be made. But he provided no details on how marchers would be stopped.
"We are prepared for all contingencies," he said.
Livingston has a list of demands ranging from Mayor Rahm Emanuel's resignation to repurposing closed schools for businesses and other uses that stabilize neighborhoods.
He also wants economic investment on the South and West sides "commensurate" with spending on the North Side and downtown, legislation to encourage hiring of released inmates and resources for black-led anti-violence efforts.
"I’d would rather see my people marching on the expressways than dying in the streets," Livingston tweeted Sunday.
You can "repurpose" a school all you want but what business in their right mind would move to a shooting gallery? The "demands" of protesters for investment and jobs all hinge on the streets being relatively safe and given the problems with police in recent years, that isn't likely to happen anytime soon.
In the past few months, protesters have shut down busy Lake Shore Drive, and the Dan Ryan Expressway. Rather than arrest the lot of them, the police have tried to reroute traffic or create a single lane for cars to get by.
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Disrupt a major hub like O’Hare, and almost every airport in the US is screwed, with a ripple effect into Europe and Asia.
Didn’t affect any flights, only passengers entering and leaving the airport.
>>”I’d would rather see my people marching on the expressways than dying in the streets,” Livingston tweeted Sunday.<<
Trying to shut down O’Hare?
You will get your people dying in the expressways.
I know that airport well and people will just run over protesters and/or get out of their vehicles and beat said protesters to a bloody pulp, then toss the carcasses out of the roadway.
I did such a great post on the road sitdown arrests but it goes for this, too.
The kiddies who watch cartoon versions of history now wee themselves as heroic, courageous, defiant heirs to Thoreau, ML King and Ghandi. Their cause might be to make the after school sports program open longer hours or to add natural foods items to the school cafeteria after banning straws, but they are heroes in their own minds.
I think it was a Ferguson or another right after it protest where the dorky demonstrators on the road held up a vehicle carrying a child who had to get to the hospital for treatment. The police finally got them out of the way for two minutes after a delay.
An interstate highway has to be kept open for emergencies, defense use and the people driving on them.
An airport has to be open so emergency landings, commerce, transportation of people can take place. It is not a mayor’s office in a small town closed down for a school millage protest.
Yesterday’s news.
Act Up used to do that crap. All it did was piss people off
Among other unrealistic things, the protesters want them to turn closed down schools into businesses. What sort of business? Nothing that requires walk-in trade. Certainly nothing but the lightest of manufacturing, as there would be no infrastructure. How would the businesses provide themselves with security. Schools can’t be repurposed unless the purpose is setting up benches to make paper airplanes.
The protesters are, apparently, idiots. This is
“community organizing” at its finest. Make noise and occupy something until somebody does whatever you want them to do.
There are two schools I know of one in Portland and one in Sacramento that have been converted to centers of commerce. The one in portland has public offices and businesses. The one in Sac had a theatre/auditorium and that’s profitable theatre.
You need to go way outside the box
Funny.
Wonder how many folks will get kicked, beaten, delayed, robbed, and just generally screwed up due to the self-indulgence of yet another ‘aggrieved’ band of motor mouths.
They need to be treated to sidewalk sandwiches and hickory shampoos like in the good old (Daley) days.
White silence = violence.”
Gee....isn’t that RACIST??
They need to be treated to sidewalk sandwiches and hickory shampoos like in the good old (Daley) days.
Too much money involved. The police will take batting practice.
How about all the ‘White’ volunteers that gather every so often and ‘pick up trash’ etc in the ‘neighborHOODS’.
Of course volunteer is the key word BUT I wonder what the reaction would be if people see ‘Black volunteers’ cleaning up White neighborhoods....
I really have a ‘novel’ idea.
Why don’t people clean up their OWN neighborhoods????
Shut down Airports? Shut Down Major thoroughfares and Highways??
5-10 Years in PRISON for every last one.
They are going to PO an AWFUL lot of travelers.
Not exactly the way to get people on your side.
They’ll be in for more violence that they could imagine.
Went on today, or are you commenting it’s just old news as in been there done that?
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