Lisa Fithian Does Chicago: Twenty Arrested In Direct Action Protests
by Lee StranahanOver twenty people were arrested in Chicago Monday by groups claiming to be affiliated indirectly with the #Occupy movement. The tactics are reminiscent of those used in the past by radical union employed community organizer Lisa Fithian, who was in Chcago doing ‘training’ for the past few days.
We introduced you to radical anarchist organizer Lisa Fithian a couple of days ago and warned that when Lisa comes to town, chaos and arrest soon follow. Then Breitbart.TV showed you that Lisa Fitihian was in Chicago and making a speech to a crowd of #Occupy Everything chanting zombies.
Look what happened in Chicago yesterday.
On Tuesday, 16 people were arrested at a protest at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Chicago where the annual conference of the Mortgage Bankers Association was underway, the Chicago Police spokesman said.
The people arrested at the conference were facing charges of misdemeanor trespassing, he said.
Separately, five women aged 55 to 80 from the Action Now group were also arrested after they took garbage from a foreclosed home owned by Bank of America Corp and dumped it in one of the bank’s branches, the group’s website said.
These protests, which cost cities like Chicago a tremendous amount in both time and resources, was organized by a group called “Stand Up Chicago”.
Organizers said Monday’s march was inspired by, but not formally affiliated with, the Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York last month and sparked smaller protests nationwide.
Fithian used similar language in her General Assembly speech on Monday night about ‘not formally affiliated’ groups, saying…
I was on Wall Street September 17th. I’ve had the pleasure to be involved [in] OccupySanFrancisco, OccupyLA, OccupyDC, and now OccupyChicago! I had that opportunity because as a national network of community-based organizations and unions around the countryhad a fall campaign to shut down the banks.
We’ve done actions in Seattle, San Francisco, Boston, L.A., and, this week Chicago. New York, Minneapolis, Next week: Denver, Honolulu, St. Louis is goin’ down too. We’re from different movements, we have different cultures, we’re using different strategies, we have a common enemy: Wall Street!
The attack on the Mortgage Bankers is reminiscent of another ‘direct action’, led by the unions, that Fithian was involved in a year ago in Boston.
This is from a Massachusetts “Jobs With Justice” site and it describes events from October, 2010…
On Tuesday, October 19, activists teamed up with SEIU Local 615, the Alliance to Develop Power and National People’s Action to infiltrate the Hynes Convention Center to take the message right to the bankers’ gathering. A small group of activists went “undercover” into a morning plenary session..
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Then, at noon, a larger group of about 40 people rushed past security into the convention center lobby with bullhorns and noisemakers, chanting, “You’re the worst! Time to put people first!”
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While Hynes security was disbanding the covert operation around 11:30, about 70 soldiers poured out of the Community Church armed with air horns, cow bells, and whistles. SEIU commander Lisa Fithian unfurled a makeshift map of the Prudential Center, showing her troops how to enter ABA territory through the shopping mall.
This is what Lisa Fithian and the unions ‘troops’ are up to in their attempt to bring down the U.S. economic system. Are the authorities in Denver, Honolulu and St. Louis ready for them?
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41 Comments
Throw the idiot in an insane asylum or prison. Jail is not enough for this mentally defective KOOL-AID GUZZLER.
The first paragraph makes it sound like the leftist thugs were the ones doing the arresting, rather than being arrested.
Keep up the good work! Enforce our American Laws!
Here's hoping the Israeli in Rahm Emanuel comes out soon. Those guys know how to deal with protesters.
"Next week: Denver, Honolulu, St. Louis is goin’ down too. "
Is there a way I could get in on the Honolulu gig? As I posted on another thread, these tools of the left ,OWS and the real grass roots groups of the TEA party have different definintions of free.We want freeDOM, the want free sh*t at our expense. One other note, shouldn't the DA's in these places where Lisa Fithian is showing up arrest her for inciting to riot? Rushing past security , violating the free speech of the people in the meetings.
Rahm is hoping the the bungholes make the coppers look bad so he can totally dismantle the CPD
"Then, at noon, a larger group of about 40 people rushed past security into the convention center lobby with bullhorns and noisemakers, chanting, 'You’re the worst! Time to put people first!'"
Lamest. Chant. Ever.
I'm curious as to why they hate mortgage bankers so much. Mortgage bankers allow people to buy houses for which they cannot pay the full asking price up front. If we didn't have mortgages, folks would have to save 100% of the seller's asking price before being able to get a home. Is that what these protesters want?
That last sentence is rhetorical, of course. We all know they want homes for free.
"The tactics are reminiscent of those used in the past by radical union employed community organizer Lisa Fithian, who was in Chicago doing ‘training’ for the past few days"
Just as we've always known. Community organizing is nothing more than paid rabble rousing for a nebulous cause
Ann
#Occupy has turned into "#INFEST" by social parriah and parasites.
Rahm would rather cut off his nose.
Like Obama, Rahm needs this to consolidate his power.
Very bad things come.
Good – lock 'em up and let 'em rot.
Sure does. Let's hope they never CAN do any arresting…
Infest is often a term used, when refering to vermin…
They have always been known to be a vector for disease….
I'm glad I found you here.
I remember last year, when you copied my avitar and began using it. My initial comment was imitation is the greatest form of flattery. Now, Tony Costine has copied my avitar, and done the same thing. Like my ex-wife used to tell the boys y'all can't be first, but you can be next.
I really must be honest, and brutally blunt. I've been flattered enough.
I really would have thought you all could display a more distinct sense of originality, and sense of self.
Just think for a moment if you, Tony, and I were in the same conversation, with multiple comments on the stream? To the casual observer, it would look like I'm a gawddamned retard talking to myself.
Two of you need to make the requisite changes.
I agree with Cowboy. Gents, sit down and brainstorm something original, or I'll think you are lefties, they steal everything after all.
Remember the time they called a SWAT team out for Tea Partiers? Double standards?
Why I don't think winter ends this crap is they just go someplace warm. I endured the 60s and 70s. I have no doubts these mobs are capable of every sort of violence.
This is gonna get REAL ugly folks! Be prepared!
Notice that rabble rouser Lisa escapes detention.
Denver's governor already won't make the illegal 30-40 tents raised go home. It's gonna be tough for the true blue Hickenlooper – he's apparently agonizing with the free speech issue. (sarcasm)
Cain has his 9-9-9- Plan.
The OWS fleabaggers have their plan as well, just released.
The Mine-Mine-Mine Plan.
Kinda gives a new meaning to grass(pot)-root movements,especially fertilizing the grass with human feces. Sorry, but it's just hard to keep my comments clean with this OWS bunch.
"I endured the 60s and 70s."
Me too, I was in the Army back then and it wasn't great to be a soldier in public, I had eggs tossed at me in Richmond Virginia, swore at in almost every airport I visited.Most of the idiots back then didn't realize most of the soldiers were drafted and just did what any real American would do ,serve.I grew up outside Berkeley,Ca ,the bastion of the left movement, so I get it.If the violence happens it will hurt the Dems big time like it did in the 60's and 70's.
Lisa Filthy One is a real piece of work. She could not have picked a better place infest. Hope they keep her locked up in Chicago; she's one effed up anarchist leading too many useless idiots.
DITTO!
Beats the hell out of working for a living.
I've actually had this avatar since I signed up with IntenseDebate, and that was several years ago. I even used it on other forums back when Bush was still in office.
I see what you mean about us looking crazy when we reply to each other, though. Maybe I'll come up with something else, make my own "flag" or something. I'm a graphic designer, so I ought to be able to come up with something.
A Ma Barker and her evil children…
Rahm is a judenrat.
Check Craigs list want ads, they might give you free transpo.
Put them in the Cook County Jail. The black people will take care of the white interlopers.
The heart and soul of all of this are the left wing union leadership , which are Barack Obama supporters all! The rest of them are useful idiots! This is how Obama operates!
FAR LEFT Advertises on Craig’s List for Paid Activists to Fight Wall Street
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/10/pro-obama...
She's a guzzler alright but I won't say of what in mixed company. Too much respect for the ladies…
The cops themselves are in the leftist unions so in essence, they are….
It's already ugly, methinks it'll get bloody soon.
Perhaps we should petition Issa to approve funding for a treatment facility large enough to accommodate these loons, plus the buffoons in D.C. once they are given their Pink Slips – This would also be in Hawaii, where they can be self sufficient – away from the Main Land.
Thank you.
That is pretty cool the way you made that work.
Thanks. I was going for a kind of retro Sons of Liberty flag thing.
Good one!
Lisa Filthian. Really? How appropriate.
To paraphrase; 'filthy is as filthy does"
Yes, they are insane, but they are BOLSHEVIKS and have every intention of starting war.
They are required to join unions so they being members of such shows nothing.
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