Take Back Chicago Day of Action
Join us at Thompson Center Plaza (100 W. Randolph) Wednesday May 23 at 4:30 PM for the People’s Shareholder Meeting to Take Back Our Tax Dollars! The Meeting is part of a full Day of Action starting at 9 a.m. and running into the evening — see full schedule. As the Chicago Mercantile Exchange holds its annual Shareholder Meeting, we will demand that our tax dollars go to investing in our communities, not to subsidizing the city’s most profitable and powerful corporation! Deep cuts to the state budget are shafting working families—with more severe cuts threatened in the near future. While the 99% struggle just to get by, the CME is pocketing a BILLION of our tax dollars on top of the record profits it’s raking in. Enough is Enough! Tax the 1%! Please RSVP on Facebook and invite your friends!
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Stand Up! Chicago’s 99% Tax Revolt
On Tax Day (April 17), hundreds of Chicagoans took to the streets to demand that billion-dollar corporations and their millionaire executives pay their fair share in taxes. Our 99% Citizen Tax Enforcers presented giant tax bills to notorious corporate tax dodgers Exelon, Bank of America, Verizon, BMO Harris Bank and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and took in their CEOs–represented by 8-foot-tall puppets–as the crowd chanted “Pay Your Fair Share!” See PHOTOS & VIDEO.
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