UPDATE: March 2, 2012: An Illinois law against recording conversations was ruled
unconstitutional Friday, the second time in the past year a judge has
struck it down. The eavesdropping law makes it a felony to record
conversations without the consent of everyone involved. Even recording
public officials in public places can be illegal. Cook County
Judge Stanley Sacks declared the law unconstitutional Friday, saying it
went too far and could make “wholly innocent conduct’’ illegal. READ REST OF ARTICLE.
UPDATE: March 1, 2012: WALKER NEWS DESK has announced there will be over 200 citizen journalists on the ground capturing the events that will take place in Chicago beginning April 15 through May 31. Some commentators are calling it the "American Spring". It's about educating the world in a raw and uncensored manner. How will the world respond? READ STORY HERE.
UPDATE: March 1, 2012: WALKER NEWS DESK has announced there will be over 200 citizen journalists on the ground capturing the events that will take place in Chicago beginning April 15 through May 31. Some commentators are calling it the "American Spring". It's about educating the world in a raw and uncensored manner. How will the world respond? READ STORY HERE.
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Will Chicago Police Be Arresting 500,000+ Citizen Journalists with Their Smart Phones in May 2012?
Over 75% of America has smartphones which are capable of taking digital pictures and capturing video with audio. An estimated 1,000,000 people will be attending or observing the G8 and NATO summit which will be taking place in Chicago from May 15-22, 2012. Some will be observing. Others will be protesting and filming. Chicago estimates over 3,000 foreign journalists will also be attending the summit and filming. Many participated in covering the events of Arab Spring in 2011. Some are calling this May the American Spring. [See article below]
It is assumed the Court of Appeals will issue a ruling consistent with the First Circuit which strikes down this law and makes this news post moot. In the event that is not the case, can you imagine the problem faced by the Chicago Police Department when asked to stop and arrest local citizens, citizen journalists, foreign journalists, and others from filming and capturing video WITH audio of these events in May?
RAMP UP: On March 31, 2012, Philadelphia is hosting a NULLIFY NOW Conference which is ramping up to the May events in Chicago. The NULLIFY NOW movement is leveraging its relationship with the Tenth Amendment Center to challenge each law which the States contend is outside the authority for Congress to enact. Front and center are the controversial NDAA Act signed on December 31, 2011, and ending "corporate personhood" advocated by the Move to Amend organization.
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Other Updated News On the UpBComing G8 and NATO Summit.
A Chicago councilman wants to bar the police department from pulling the plug on electronic communication during NATO/G8 meetings this May, taking away a tactic employed by authorities during a crackdown on democratic protests in Egypt and during protests in the San Francisco Bay Area last year. Read More: Associated Press
While federal officials will handle security for the summit meetings themselves, "the street-level protection is the responsibility of the local police—lucky us," says the officer, who, like others we spoke with, asked not to be named because he's not allowed to speak to the press. Read More: www.chicagoreader.com
Thousands of Nurses, Activists to March at G8 May 18, Call for Tax on Wall Street, Challenge Austerity Agendas. RNs to be Joined by Healthcare, Community, Global Activists in Chicago to Call for Wall Street Speculation Tax as Starting Point to Address Economic Crisis.
Chicago’s G8/NATO organizing committee has landed on a slogan for the city as it hosts the twin summits this May: “The Global Crossroads.” This is certainly an appropriate moniker for a town built by immigrants, with its neighborhoods still bearing the names of the ethnic enclaves they once were: Ukranian Village, Greektown, Little Italy and Andersonville, to name a few. Recognizing the inherently global character of the Metropolis of the Midwest would be honorable, if that is what the organizers intended. However, when they say “global,” they are invoking the 1 percent sense of the word, as Don Welsh of the city’s Convention and Tourism Bureau makes clear: “To penetrate international markets takes time and money, and this is going to help us showcase to the international markets in a quick way.” It is the global markets that will cross paths as the world’s political and financial elite sets its agenda behind closed doors at McCormick Place. Read More: alternet.org
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