A Golden Toilet for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Jan 27th, 2012•Category: General
On January 24, dozens of struggling taxpayers marched into the lobby of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange with a special gift for its chairman, Terrence Duffy -- a shiny golden toilet symbolizing the greed behind the global options-trading behemoth's successful efforts to...
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The Most Powerful Company You’ve Never...
May 19th, 2012
Meet CME Group, the parent company of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange ("The Merc") and the Chicago Board of Trade, the two iconic commodities futures exchanges comprising Chicago's Wall Street. Forbes calls it one of the four companies in the shadows that control the 147 companies that own...
Continue ReadingPeople’s Shareholder Meeting to Take...
May 19th, 2012
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! 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...
Continue ReadingStanding Up to Wage Theft - Car Wash...
Nov 21st, 2011
On November 15, 2011, Arise Chicago and community supporters marched on the Little Village Car Wash to demand back wages for Carlos Ruiz, who worked there for 11 years at far below minimum wage and lost his thumb in a workplace accident. The protesters brandished squeegees, oversized sponges, signs...
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Jobs Not Cuts Day of Action - November 17
More than 2,000 people rallied at the Thompson Center Plaza and marched to the LaSalle Street Bridge, occupying it for over an hour to demand JOBS...
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