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The United States is hosting two international gatherings this week. In Chicago representatives from 60 nations will meet for the 25th NATO summit to discuss the alliance’s future role in Afghanistan. The organization is expected to come to an agreement on the cost and size of continued support for the war-torn nation past 2014, when combat operations are expected to end. The Windy city was also slated to host the annual meeting of the Group of 8 nations, or G-8, however, the White House changed venues abruptly in March to Camp David, citing a desire, \u201cto facilitate a free-flowing discussion with our close G8 partners … in an informal and intimate setting.\u201d Many have speculated that the change was made to avoid the large demonstrations that are expected to converge on downtown Chicago. <\/p>\n
The Occupy Wall Street movement has pledged to make both events focal points for protest arguing that both NATO and the G8 represent unfettered capitalism and militarism. Occupy Chicago has launched a week of events this week leading up to the May 21 NATO summit. Meanwhile, in the towns of Frederick and Fairmont near Camp David, activists are organizing a People\u2019s Economic Summit on Friday, the first day of the G8 summit, focusing on wealth inequality, the eradication of poverty, and the creation of an equitable tax system.<\/p>\n
GUESTS: Dylan Petrohilos, an organizer with Occupy Frederick near Camp David, Crystal Vance Guerra, an organizer with Occupy El Barrio and Occupy Chicago <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States is hosting two international gatherings this week. In Chicago representatives from 60 nations will meet for the 25th NATO summit to discuss the alliance’s future role in Afghanistan. The organization is expected to come to an agreement on the cost and size of continued support for the war-torn nation past 2014, when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}