May Day Protesters: “America – No Longer Cares About Its People”

BY MAUDLYNE IHEJIRIKA AND NATASHA KORECKI Chicago Sun-Times Staff Reporters

More than 1,500 protesters from all over the region converged on the West Side Tuesday, to rally against everything from corporate excess to failing schools to immigrant deportations.

“America is on the wrong path and no longer cares about its people, only about corporate greed, deportation, and self-interest over the whole,” said Janice Solomon, who came to Union Park with Iglesia Unida de Cristo in Berwyn for the May Day rally.

The protesters left the park at 1:15 p.m. and headed to Federal Plaza… Read More