The November 2011 episode of Chicago Independent Television includes segments direct from the scenes of Occupy Wall Street in New York and Occupy Chicago in the Windy City, as well as with a recent protest for peace in Chicago on the tenth anniversary of the U.S. war in Afghanistan.

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"Thousands gathered and marched on October 22 for the second weekend in a row to occupy public space at Congress Parkway and Michigan Avenue as part of the groundswell of support for the international 'Occupy Wall Street' movement for economic justice. More than a hundred occupiers were arrested — including National Nurses United nurses for refusing to abandon their first aid tent to support protesters/occupiers in Grant Park. Nurses are calling an emergency picket on Monday, October 24 at 10AM at City Hall, 121 N. LaSalle St., to demand that all charges against protesters be dropped and the City end its refusal to grant public access to public spaces and end its attacks on civil liberties.

Indymedia coverage: PHOTOS: Protest — Occupy Chicago 10-22 | Press Release condemning arrests/call for Monday morning protest/National Nurses United | Occupy Chicago: "Free speech does not end at 11PM!" | Video: Occupy Chicago takes Liberation Square at Michigan Avenue and Congress | Occupy Chicago breaking updates/website

From the newswire: "1,500 people gathered at Congress Parkway and Michigan Avenue to protest the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the US war in Afghanistan — the longest war in U.S. history [and Afghanistan history too]. At the end, hundreds marched [throughout downtown Chicago and went] to the Occupy Chicago/Occupy Wall Street picket at Jackson and LaSalle St."

Indymedia coverage: PHOTOS: Protest — 10 years of war in Afghanistan | Video: Rally and March for Peace on 10th Anniversary of War in Afghanstan | Previous Feature: Chicago Peace Activists Gearing Up for 10th Anniversary Afghanistan War Protest

It began as a call in July 2011 by the magazine Adbusters to hold powerful business interests on Wall Street to account, and drawing on inspiration from the famed 2011 grassroots protests across the Middle East. But the mantle has been taken up by grassroots activists in New York City to forge an ongoing occupation outside of Wall Street and throughout New York City. The effort in its first two weeks has spurred a national movement with sibling efforts in at least 130 other cities, including Chicago.

Occupy Chicago, merely a week old, has already drawn hundreds of grassroots protesters, who "march…each day…After an hour long general assembly meeting, demonstrators headed through the financial district, Millennium Park, the Magnificent Mile and back to base camp to once more spread messages of solidarity, positivity and persistence in the face of a political system that’s left 99% of Americans without a real voice in governance…While it may be young and still trying to get organized, the movement to Occupy America is growing and cohering. And though many went home after Saturday’s march, more than a hundred stayed to continue organizing and evangelizing, with no plans to leave until they feel their job is done." Read more: Dancing with the Dispossessed - One Week into Occupy Chicago

Update: Occupy Chicago threatened by Chicago police to stop

Additional Coverage: Lessons Learned from Occupy Wall Street | Five Things that Occupy Wall Street Did Right | Occupy Chicago Entering Day 6 | Protestors Occupy Chicago in Solidarity with Occupy Wall St NY | An American Spring is Possible | Open Letter to Occupy Chicago

Outside Resources: Think Progress; NY Times' Andrew Ross Sorking Sneers at Occupy Wall Street | Protests Work Better with Specific Demands | Occupy Wall Street Makes Its Own Media | In These Times' coverage of Occupy Chicago | Chicago Talks: The Local Angle on Occupy Chicago
| Chicago Traders respond to protesters with signs reading "We are the 1%"

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Chicago peace activists under the banner for Chicago Mass Action are organizing the Midwest Regional March for Peace. The rally and march, to be held at the intersection of Michigan and Congress on Saturday, October 8, 2011, at 12pm CT, marks ten years since the start of the U.S. war and occupation in Afghanistan, launched in the wake of 9/11.

When the war in Afghanistan was announced, some 800 activists marched in protest in downtown Chicago in October 2001 when the war in Afghanistan was announced. In the build-up to the events on October 8, 2011, a variety of peace actions across the Chicago area are being organized.

The August 2011 episode of From The Trenches, the monthly radio program of Chicago Indymedia, featuring Haley Rea on organizing efforts against a sexist "list" at a Chicago-area high school, Tom Tresser on the grassroots victory over the Chicago establishment to block the Chicago 2016 Olympics, and Dave Kraft on the connections between Illinois' water supply and Illinois' nuclear energy industry. Plus headlines from the global Indymedia network.

Download August 2011 episode | Chicago Indymedia's radio page | CIMC / FTT Radio podcast feed | From The Trenches on iTunes

From the Newswire: "CHICAGO, August 8, 2011 ― A federal appeals court today rejected former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s attempt to dismiss an anti-torture suit against him. The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Federal Judge Wayne R. Anderson’s March 2010 decision to allow the suit over Rumsfeld’s orders which allegedly led to the 2006 torture of two military contractors, Donald Vance and Nathan Ertel, U.S. citizens who were working in Iraq. The Appeals Court is now the highest court to have upheld the right of citizens to pursue an anti-torture claim against a federal Cabinet-level official." Read more

Past Chicago Indymedia Coverage: Chicagoan Tortured and Imprisoned Without Charges by U.S. Forces in Baghdad | Court Allows Torture Suit Against Former Defense Sec't Rumsfeld

Other coverage: Interview on Current TV with Donald Vance | Part 2 of Vance Interview

The August episode of Chicago Independent Television includes a visit to the 2011 Chicago Gay Pride Parade where activists raise awareness to the plight of alleged Wikileaker Bradley Manning, a segment about forthcoming attempts to privatize Chicago's public water and grassroots efforts to oppose that, and a protest against Whole Foods raising awareness of the controversy of genetically modified organisms in Whole Foods foods.

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