RALLY / PROTESTSHUT DOWN THE OLYMPIC BID Say 'NO' to the Chicago 2016 Olympic BidThursday, April 2, 2009 5pm, Federal Plaza (50 W. Adams) The International Olympic Committee will be in town from April 2-8th to evaluate Chicago's potential as a Host City for the 2016 Summer Olympics. Let them know that Chicago 2016 does not speak for the people of Chicago. Let them know that Chicagoans have other priorities. Let them hear your voice. RALLY. SPEAK OUT. PROTEST. SHUT DOWN THE OLYMPIC BID! We need Better Hospitals, Housing, Schools, and Trains -- Not Olympic Games. They Play and We Pay. NO GAMES! For more information email nogameschicago@gmail.com or call 312.235.2873On the web: nogameschicago.com NO GAMES: Chicago on Facebook ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WILL THE OLYMPICS PRODUCE JOBS AND HELP THE ECONOMY?Based on the 13 Summer Games between 1964 in Tokyo and London in 2012, the overall costs have exceeded a billion dollars ten times, with a net profit only once. Source: Chris Shaw. Five Ring Circus: Myths and Realities of the Olympic Games 'Long-term unemployed and workless communities were largely unaffected by the staging of the Games in each of the [last four host] cities. Much of the employment was temporary, and there was also little evidence that volunteer skills transferred to the post-Games economy,' says the report co-authored by Dr Iain MacRury. 'Greece actually lost 70,000 jobs in the three months following the [2004] Games, mostly in the construction industry.'Source: www.london.gov.uk/assembly/index.jsp A report by Roger G. Noll and Andrew Zimbalist of Stanford University found that a new sports facility has an extremely small (perhaps even negative) effect on overall economic activity and employment. Stadia rarely earn anything approaching a reasonable return on investment and sports facilities attract neither tourists nor new industry. Source: "Sports, Jobs, and Taxes: The Economic Impact of Sports Teams and Stadiums WHAT ABOUT HOUSING AND DISPLACEMENT?Approximately 30,000 poor residents were displaced from their homes in Atlanta by gentrification, the demolition of public housing, rental speculation, and urban renewal projects associated with the Olympics. Approximately 2,000 public housing units were demolished and nearly 6,000 residents displaced. African-Americans were disproportionately affected by displacements, housing unaffordability, and harassment and arrests of the homeless. The criminalization of homelessness was a key feature of the 1996 Atlanta Games: 9,000 arrest citations were issued to homeless people in Atlanta in 1995 and 1996 as part of the Olympic Games 'clean up'.Source: Center on Housing Rights and Evictions The Olympic Games have displaced more than two million people in the last 20 years, disproportionately affection minorities such as the homeless, the poor, Roma and African-Americans, according to ... Fair Play for Housing Right: Mega Events, Olympic Games and Housing Rights.Source: Center on Housing Rights and Evictions

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From the comments on: http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/ "There was a fight at Ruby Red night club Saturday night, in which a white male was jumped by a black male and hispanic male after the white male attempted to break-up a fight between two girls. During the dispute the hispanic male pulled out a knife and stabbed the white male. In the process of stabbing the victim the hispanic male missed and ended up stabbing himself and his friend during the struggle. Witness heard the subjects yelling 'lets F%$k this white boy up'. The white male is in critical condition, he lost his spleen and his lung collapsed. Very little news, and none on race, what if this was in reverse? Subjects are in custody, what are the chances of a hate crime? That area has been seeing an increase in violence in which minorities have been attacking whites. Be careful when going out. 3/16/2009 09:52:00 PM"

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We need two things: 1.) The Olympics 2.) To start sending citations to those with no auto insurance. The rest of the shit that happens at council meetings really doesn't mean much.

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While don't film and star in a current version of the naked city second guy. Next one of your post will read dog chases cat. If you take the time to surf the web properly you will discover this story was reported by the Sunday Tribune. Are you receiving out patient help friend?

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...Wardingly to challenge Daley in 2011.

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Another ruse candidate---or at least inappropriate.

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"O'Neil said they could help by working to provide his site with more raw data, and in turn he'd be happy to help put TIF information online--for free." Let's not overlook another generous offer from Prof. Weber of CUPPA at UIC, who offered to assign grad students and help located grant funding to build a TIF website. Recalling that the papers in Richie's dad's office were cleaned out to his basement and his basement was cleaned out to the UIC library, it can't be a trust issue that prevents the Daley admin on taking up this offer.

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Bring the Olympics to Chicago!!!!!

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This olympics scheme has 3 goals: 1. Push low and no income minorities out of the city. 2. Re-inflate the real estate balloon, using the dirt cheap properties formerly owned by those displaced minorities. 3. Finance the above via the taxpayers dollars. The many lucrative contracts directly connected to the olympics will be pocket change, compared to the fortunes to be made, if this scheme succeeds in eliminating a substantial portion of this city's low and no income population. Those currently members of the low and no income minority groups will have limited options under this scheme. If they are owners of real property, they will either be forced to sell, cheaply, under the eminent domain powers the city will impose upon them, if their real property is within the areas targeted, or, if their property is located outside of said targeted areas, they will be leveraged to sell, with the use of building code violations and increased property taxes as the stick and/or market forces increasing the offered price for their property as the carrot. In any case, they, the minority owners of real property, will, if this scheme is successful, no longer be residing within the city limits. Daley and his crew have never liked having to kiss the minorities' asses and have been trying to come up with an effective way to significantly reduce the number of resident minorities for some time. This olympics scheme is what they've determined to be the one most likely to achieve that goal. As for those minorities not owning real property, well, if they want to remain residents of this city, they're just shit out of luck. After all, section 8 housing is everywhere now, in practically every suburb within cook county and even the surrounding counties. There will be a small percentage of minority members who'll be capable of lifting themselves out of their low and no income status, even though many minority members fail to recognize, acknowledge or avail themselves of the opportunities to become capable. This small percentage will be tolerable to those who, as a rule, do not want any minorities living within the city, just as long as said minorities are no longer a political threat at election time. So, when you read posted comments touting the olympics, understand that those pushing this scheme truly believe that they are working to improve the future of this city, via the displacement of most all of the minority population which they consider to be the main source of most all of the city's problems. Even those opposed to the daley machine will have a difficult time proving them wrong.

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Make no mistake the Building Department will send in its Inspectors to targeted areas,to write code violations,and stael properties.

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The point is this; there will be NO COMMUNITY benefiting from the 2016 Olympics. Mayor Daley works for developers not the citizens of Chicago. Vote him out next election and the residents of Chicago can finally move forward into the future. Daley has old ideas and refuses to invest in schools, transit, affordable apartments, hospitals, clinics and predominately minority neighborhoods. We all know this; why are people so surprised?

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Take your concept of a CITY INCOME TAX & SHOVE IT!!!!!!. With the bald, smelly, vile cesspool from the 41st ward. See HOW GREAT Chicago would be with Jesse Jackass Juniah as hizzoner.......Give me a few more barf bags.

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re: the socialist com·mu·ni·ty Pronunciation: kə-ˈmyü-nə-tē Function: noun 1. a unified body of individuals: as a) state , commonwealth b) the people with common interests living in a particular area; broadly: the area itself c) an interacting population of various kinds of individuals (as species) in a common location d) a group of people with a common characteristic or interest living together within a larger society e) a group linked by a common policy f) a body of persons or nations having a common history or common social, economic, and political interests g) a body of persons of common and especially professional interests scattered through a larger society 2. society at large 3. a) joint ownership or participation b) common character: likeness c) social activity: fellowship d) a social state or condition & mi·nor·i·ty Pronunciation: mə-ˈnȯr-ə-tē Function: noun 1. a) the period before attainment of majority b) the state of being a legal minor 2. the smaller in number of two groups constituting a whole; specifically: a group having less than the number of votes necessary for control 3. a) a part of a population differing from others in some characteristics and often subjected to differential treatment b) a member of a minority group There is no single 'point'. There are multiple truths, however complicated, conflicting and contradicting those truths may be. Here are a few truths: 1. There are several 'communities' who believe they will 'benefit' from the olympics, to wit: a) those individuals who comprise the group (community) of people who see this city's population as a source of revenue, via the power to tax, much like a group of vampires sees a group of red blooded mammals as a source of blood to suck, thus desire the reduction in those groups they see as lacking in resources to tax and an increase in the number of individuals who possess greater resources from which to extract revenue via taxations. b) those individuals who, as a rule, consider this city's minority populations, ie., primarily blacks and hispanics, to be the source of much to most of this city's problems, with 'this city's problems' being defined as economic, social, political and behavioral. c) those individuals who see the current state of this city to be potentially primed for their 21st Century version of 'carpetbagging', with the neighborhoods presently occupied by minorities holding the greatest potential to be exploited. d) those individuals whose positions of political and economic authority depend upon their having to cater to groups (communities) with which they have little to nothing in common; thus, their goal is to reduce this dependence, by reducing the number of members of said groups, via relocation. e) those individuals who comprise the groups (communities) who have, to date, experienced a significant lack of employment opportunities and believe that the olympics will provide, for themselves and their fellow community members, a significant increase in said employment opportunities, regardless of how short lived said opportunities may end up being, and regardless of how said short lived opportunities will likely be offset by the long term effects the olympics will have on said members. Whether you like it or not, there are significant numbers of residents of this city who see the areas targeted for olympic transformations as being populated by individuals who are, as a whole, sources of financial, social and behavioral burdens, said burdens which they would like to be relieved of. There is no possibility of social justice when there is an absence of economic justice. Economic justice depends upon economic honesty, both on the part of those employing and those employed. The production of useful products and the providing of useful services depends upon an honest relationship between the provider and the consumer. Dishonesty is the root cause of our economic, social and behavioral problems. Everyone involved bears the responsibility for the undesirable outcomes which inevitably are the result of dishonest relationships.

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My vote incumbents out strategy doesn't work!

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VOTE INCUMBENTS IN!!!!!

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Up yours,to you and the maggot Daley

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