Labor Beat: Clinics Protest March to Rahm's House

On May 19, 2012, a couple hundred activists marched to the North Side home of Chicago's Mayor Rahm Emanuel (Dem.). The protest denounced the Mayor's closing of 6 badly needed mental health clinics in minority communities. (All 50 of the Democratic Party City Council members voted for the closures too.) The money exists for these services, but they are being closed and privatized regardless. With the big anti-war march on the following day, the chant was "healthcare, not warfare." Emanuel's 'home' in the 4200 block of Hermitage had been generally regarded as a last-minute ploy to enable him -- who really hails from upper-crust Winnetka -- to legally run for Mayor in the 2011 election. High-priced lawyers spun the legal challenge over his residency in his favor. Speeches and interviews: Linda Hatcher (Woodlawn Mental Health Center consumer); Dan Bader (former clinical therapist at Northtown Rogers Park Mental Health Center before it was closed recently); Paul Nappier; Dianne Adams (Mental Health Movement); John Anderson (IVAW). Length - 6:39 min. Please make a Donation to Labor Beat (Committee for Labor Access) and help rank-and-file tv: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr... Produced by Labor Beat. Labor Beat is a CAN TV Community Partner. Labor Beat is a non-profit 501(c)(3) member of IBEW 1220. Views are those of the producer Labor Beat. For info: [email protected], www.laborbeat.org. 312-226-3330. For other Labor Beat videos, visit YouTube and search "Labor Beat". On Chicago CAN TV Channel 19, Thursdays 9:30 pm; Fridays 4:30 pm. Labor Beat has regular cable slots in Chicago, Evanston, Rockford, Urbana, IL; Philadelphia, PA; Princeton, NJ; and Rochester, NY. For more detailed information, send us a request at [email protected].