Labor Beat: When NATO Came to Town

The successful May 20 anti-NATO/G8 march in Chicago was the result of months of struggle to defend the 1st Amendment and an historic setting for veterans of the Afghan and Iraq wars to throw their service medals back toward where NATO met.

This video tells the story of the fight for parade permits, against Mayor Emanuel's intimidation with a massive police-state mobilization (including NATO jet fighters), the story of National Nurses United overcoming the City's attempts to deny them a permit to have a rally against G8 at Daley Plaza, the IVAW's struggle to get their opportunity to hold their returning medals ceremony at the end of the march where the NATO Summit took place. Here also are scenes of the massive rally at the starting point of the march at Petrillo Band Shell in Grant Park, and the march itself along the fought-for parade route, with its international, veteran, labor, and community contingents.

Finally, we see and hear the speeches of the Afghan and Iraq war veterans as they throw back their medals. This important and historic gesture was hardly acknowledged by the corporate media, as they instead seized upon sensational images of police/black bloc struggles in the street, allowing the central political message of the Coalition Against NATO/G8 War and Poverty Agenda, the organizer of the march, to be obscured. Interviews, speeches, scenes. Length: 24:39.

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So happy you were there to stand for PEACE!! Thank you a