mentalhealthmovement &mdash; Fight Back! News https://fightbacknews.org/tag:mentalhealthmovement News and Views from the People's Struggle Fri, 01 May 2026 17:40:23 +0000 https://i.snap.as/RZCOEKyz.png mentalhealthmovement &mdash; Fight Back! News https://fightbacknews.org/tag:mentalhealthmovement NATO protesters demand “Healthcare not warfare” at Chicago mayor’s home https://fightbacknews.org/nato-protesters-demand-healthcare-not-warfare-chicago-mayor-s-home?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[Chicago, IL - Over 300 people gathered on Saturday, May 19 in a Chicago park to demand healthcare, not warfare. Protesters gathered outside a CTA train station and then rallied at Horner Park on the North Side. Protest leaders gave speeches opposing the war and poverty agenda of the NATO and G8 summits. They demanded money for healthcare and ending homelessness here at home, not for the war in Afghanistan. !--more-- The rally in the park then marched on the home of Mayor Rahm Emmanuel, the host to the NATO summit of war-makers, politicians and bankers. In the lead up to the NATO war summit, Mayor Emmanuel shuttered six mental health clinics. More than two dozen leaders and members of the Mental Health Movement and Southside Together Organizing for Power (STOP) Chicago were arrested in previous weeks occupying mental health facilities targeted for closing. One protest outside the mayor’s office in City Hall ended with six members of STOP Chicago cited for trespassing and one arrest on April 30. Emmanuel’s consolidation plan will privatize healthcare and force patients to take long trips on public transportation to obtain health care services. Upon marching to and sitting in outside the mayor’s home, people chanted, “Healthcare, not warfare!" and "Money for human need, not for corporate greed." Protesters marched for the 99% along with the patients and organizers who were arrested. #ChicagoIL #Healthcare #antiwar #ChicagoNATOSummit #MentalHealthMovement #SouthsideTogetherOrganizingForPower div id="sharingbuttons.io"/div]]> Chicago, IL – Over 300 people gathered on Saturday, May 19 in a Chicago park to demand healthcare, not warfare. Protesters gathered outside a CTA train station and then rallied at Horner Park on the North Side. Protest leaders gave speeches opposing the war and poverty agenda of the NATO and G8 summits. They demanded money for healthcare and ending homelessness here at home, not for the war in Afghanistan.

The rally in the park then marched on the home of Mayor Rahm Emmanuel, the host to the NATO summit of war-makers, politicians and bankers. In the lead up to the NATO war summit, Mayor Emmanuel shuttered six mental health clinics. More than two dozen leaders and members of the Mental Health Movement and Southside Together Organizing for Power (STOP) Chicago were arrested in previous weeks occupying mental health facilities targeted for closing. One protest outside the mayor’s office in City Hall ended with six members of STOP Chicago cited for trespassing and one arrest on April 30. Emmanuel’s consolidation plan will privatize healthcare and force patients to take long trips on public transportation to obtain health care services.

Upon marching to and sitting in outside the mayor’s home, people chanted, “Healthcare, not warfare!” and “Money for human need, not for corporate greed.” Protesters marched for the 99% along with the patients and organizers who were arrested.

#ChicagoIL #Healthcare #antiwar #ChicagoNATOSummit #MentalHealthMovement #SouthsideTogetherOrganizingForPower

]]> https://fightbacknews.org/nato-protesters-demand-healthcare-not-warfare-chicago-mayor-s-home Mon, 21 May 2012 20:27:02 +0000 Patients, advocates occupy Woodlawn Mental Health Center in Chicago https://fightbacknews.org/patients-advocates-occupy-woodlawn-mental-health-center-chicago?pk_campaign=rss-feed <![CDATA[23 arrested in effort to stop clinic closing Protest to stop clinic closing") Chicago, IL - The Mental Health Movement is fighting Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plans to close six clinics this month. On April 12, at 4:00 p.m., 30 people chained the doors shut and erected barricades. Over 100 unionized nurses and community members, including patients and members of Occupy Chicago, formed lines in front of the doors. “Health care is a right!” chanted the crowd. !--more-- After 1:00 in the morning of April 13, Chicago police cut the chains that the patients used to lock the doors and then started arresting people. Mayor Emanuel is closing these clinics, depriving poor people of much needed care, while giving tax breaks to wealthy businesses like the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The city is also spending as much as $65 million to host the war makers of NATO in May. The Mental Health Movement will be part of the march against NATO on May 20, to demand money for health care, not war. #ChicagoIL #Healthcare #NATO #RahmEmanuel #MentalHealthMovement div id="sharingbuttons.io"/div]]> 23 arrested in effort to stop clinic closing

Protest to stop clinic closing

Chicago, IL – The Mental Health Movement is fighting Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plans to close six clinics this month. On April 12, at 4:00 p.m., 30 people chained the doors shut and erected barricades. Over 100 unionized nurses and community members, including patients and members of Occupy Chicago, formed lines in front of the doors. “Health care is a right!” chanted the crowd.

After 1:00 in the morning of April 13, Chicago police cut the chains that the patients used to lock the doors and then started arresting people.

Mayor Emanuel is closing these clinics, depriving poor people of much needed care, while giving tax breaks to wealthy businesses like the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The city is also spending as much as $65 million to host the war makers of NATO in May. The Mental Health Movement will be part of the march against NATO on May 20, to demand money for health care, not war.

#ChicagoIL #Healthcare #NATO #RahmEmanuel #MentalHealthMovement

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