2012年4月13日星期五
N'Dana Carter, who goes to one of the
Protesters entered the clinic at 5 p.m. and gucci bags barricaded the doors with steel piping and quick-dry cement, refusing to leave until they were granted an audience with Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The action marked an attempt to stay the April 30 closure date scheduled for four of the city's mental health clinics, according to a release from the Mental Health Movement and Southside Together Organizing for Power (STOP). (Northwest Clinic in Logan Square and the Northtown Clinic in Rogers Park were closed last Friday.)
Around 12:30 a.m. Friday, police entered the building, using chainsaws and bolt cutters to break through the barricades, according to STOP. Officers arrested 23 people -- eleven were released without charges, and protesters say charges are pending against the remaining 12.
"Our fight is not with the police, it's with the mayor," one gucci handbags participant said to a police officer in the clinic on the live stream being broadcast from inside.
See video above for streaming footage from inside the clinic.
N'Dana Carter, who goes to one of the city clinics and is a spokesperson for the Mental Health Movement, expressed the group's frustrations in a release:"We have tried everything we could to be heard. We visited Mayor Emanuel when he was a candidate. We delivered him over 4,000 letters. We have talked to almost all 50 Alderman. We have held press conferences, rallies and even sat-in for 10 hours on the 5th floor of City Hall. We are the ones who know the disaster these clinic closures will mean for our communities and our city but Mayor Emanuel been unwilling to listen to us, so we are taking drastic measures to avoid a tragedy and defend our human gucci shirts rights."
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