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NATO protests, Saturday | Photos
Posted in #Chicago blog by Ruth Welte on May 19, 2012 at 6:55pm
Save Our Clinics rally and march to Mayor Rahm Emanuel's house | Phtos
On the second day of NATO weeekend, protesters gathered at the Irving Park Brown Line station in Ravenswood to begin a peaceful demonstration that would advocate for the six mental health clinics that were closed last month in Chicago.
Demonstrators met at the Irving Park Brown Line station at 10am Saturday morning, to rally for reopening six of Chicago's 12 mental health clinics that were closed last month under Mayor Rahm Emanuel's tenure.
Some dressed in hospital gowns, the same group that barricaded themselves inside the Woodlawn Mental Health Clinic last month joined more than 400 other protesters to march on Emanuel's Ravenswood neighborhood.
Diane Adams, a protester who demonstrated at Woodlawn Health Center last month, marched through Mayor Rahm Emanuel's Ravenswood neighborhood to ask where the nearest health center was. Knocking on Emanuel's neighbors doors, "Do you know where the nearest public health center is?" She asked, "No? Because your neighbor shut mine down."
One of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's Ravenswood neighbors reads the flyer passed out by demonstrators fighting to reopen Chicago's six health centers that were closed last month.
Lora Chamberlain and Zakiyyah Muhammad, two mental health advocates in Chicago, led the early, small march, to be followed by a larger sit-in demonstration.
After canvasing the mayor's neighborhood, protesters relax at Horner Park, waiting for the start of a large-scale demonstration and march to Emanuel's door to advocate for Chicago's mental health centers.
"Every 80 minutes a veteran takes his own life due to the psychological trauma of war," said veteran marine John Anderson, 26, at a rally in Horner Park, Saturday. Demonstrators gathered to advocate for Chicago's mental health centers. "We're trained as warriors and the stigma is that we can take it, but soldiers are people too."
"Mayor Rahm, Mayor Rahm, don't take healthcare from my mom," chanted protesters as they marched through Horner Park to the mayor's house in Ravenswood.
"One, we are the people. Two, we are united. Three, the need for healthcare is not leaving," chanted protesters as they marched down Montrose Avenue from Horner Park to Mayor Rahm Emanuel's block in Ravenswood.
Community residents, mental health clinicians and representatives from organizations such as the Illinois Nurses Association staged a peaceful sit-in outside the mayor's house to advocate for Chicago's six closed mental health centers.
"Fight! Fight! Fight! 'Cuz healthcare is a human right," rang through the streets of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's Ravenswood neighborhood. After a 20-minute sit-in outside his house, demonstrators moved their protest to Wells Park.
On the second day of NATO weeekend, protesters gathered at the Irving Park Brown Line station in Ravenswood to begin a peaceful demonstration that would advocate for the six mental health clinics that were closed last month in Chicago.
Photos: Ashlee Rezin
Wearing patients' gowns and carrying signs that said "Healthcare not warfare," protestors marched from the Irving Park Brown Line stop to mayor Rahm Emanuel's house (or as close to it as they were allowed by police). They were protesting the recent Chicago budget cuts that have closed multiple mental healthcare facilities across the city.
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