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This segment shows highlights of the No Games Chicago rally of April 2, 2009.

Produced by Mitchell Szczepanczyk for Chicago Independent TV.

Download the show here: http://www.chicagoindependenttv.org

See more at Chicago Indymedia: http://chicago.indymedia.org

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Special report by Mark Saxenmeyer of Fox News Chicago about children being left without required bus transportation as special needs students of the Chicago Public School system in 2008.

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Public awareness video of a 5 year old student with Autism that has been left behind by the Chicago Public School system in 2008. After the student’s Special Education program was transferred to a new school in the 1st Ward, the student’s IEP bus transportation requirement has not been provided. School also has problems with disability access and a lack of parking for parents, along with poor street traffic management around school and illegal parking enforcement. No designated car drop-offs for disabled people is provided and no crossing guards are present behind the school. Owen finally got on a bus to school at Jose De Diego Academy on November 5, 2008 – five months after the transportation request was made in June of 2008 with his school transfer. This video was made October 27, 2008 by his father, a single parent widower.

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nogameschicago.com presents The Five Olympic Myths.

Myth 1 is that it will boost our local economy. The only peope who will make money is the IOC, contractors, and insiders. The people will get stuck with the bill. City after city the Olympics go over budget and with our track record there is a good probability that we would go over budget too. For example Millennium Park went over double the budget from $150 million to a final total of $475 million and the Dan Ryan’s budget was $550 million and the final cost was $975 million. Now image a project the size of the Olympics.

Visit nogameschicago.com if you want to fight the Olympic committee choosing for 2016. Also, join us on April 2nd 2009 in Federal Plaza for a mass demonstration while the IOC is in town.

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