There have been quite a few emails and comments lately about organizing a rally of sorts at Alderman Shiller's office on Broadway. Several of you have emailed us willing to help organize such an event. Please discuss that in this post. Also, remember to use the "News Media Contacts" link off on the right to notify the news media of such a rally.
Friday, May 23, 2008
Rally Required At Alderman's Office?
There have been quite a few emails and comments lately about organizing a rally of sorts at Alderman Shiller's office on Broadway. Several of you have emailed us willing to help organize such an event. Please discuss that in this post. Also, remember to use the "News Media Contacts" link off on the right to notify the news media of such a rally.
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I would certainly attend and make efforts to inform everyone in my building. How about contacting the media (Tribune, Sun Times, etc.)? Schiller is a scumbag SOCIOPATH and the only thing that gets a sociopath's attention is exposing their corrupt ways.
ReplyDeleteI'm in.
ReplyDeleteShe ignores or deflects every other attempt for answers. Let's take it to her front door.
Take it to the streets! Let's go!
ReplyDeleteShould we try and plan it for the next time she has Saturday office hours? That way as many people as possible can attend, and we can try and ensure she will actually be there.
ReplyDeleteShiller is rarely at her Broadway office. She collects her paycheck via direct deposit. A rally is a blip on the radar screen.
ReplyDeleteSchiller [sic} is a "scumbag sociopath?"
ReplyDeleteI wouldnt invite this person to the rally. You dont want your side to come off as nutzoid as youre accusing the alderman of being.
But as someone pointed out yesterday, a lot of Uptown Update commenters are conveniently bloviating from the safety of their computer keyboards.
I dare you all to Impress me by actually organizing an anti-crime rally in front of the 46th Ward office.
I'm in, and I'll bring my camera.
ReplyDeleteLike many others, I work 8-6 m-f, so Saturday would be best, but didn't we just hear a story about Helen not being in her office during posted Saturday hours?
9:57: "Our side" is looking forward to impressing "your side" with a show of community. Whatever "nutzoids" may read this blog are NOTHING compared to the totally inept leadership by "your side." It is one thing to fight for equal rights for the poor, it is quite another to march lock-step down into an ideological hell-hole and having to step over the dead bodies while you do it. "Your side" is completely unfit to serve in a public capacity and it is time to point this out to everyone---including the Mayor whose fascist boots you have licked so well lo these many years.
ReplyDeleteWe need to protest at City Hall - Shiller is never around at her ward office - a rally there would be somewhat useless. Daley needs to see this. Maybe have one during a council meeting? Embarrass her in front of her colleagues (who already know she is nuts).
ReplyDeleteAnon 9:57,
ReplyDeleteI think you'll be pleasantly surprised by the turnout. We've had some recent get togthers that have brought out the people.
I would agree that she is a sociopath because being able to lie so easily to the point that you believe the lie to be the truth is one of the signs of a sociopath.
Who cares if Shiller is actually in the office. Do you really think she is going to come out to speak to the protesters? As long as we are there making our presence known and the media is alerted, that is all that is needed.
ReplyDeleteSaturday (tomorrow) works for me.
I think picketing the office, during her office hours, when she isn't present, is almost perfect, especially if its covered by the media.
ReplyDeleteso now there are "sides"? Whoever you are 9:57 - whether it be a Shiller employee, or just a Shiller Loyalist - you have shown why the people of this community feel the way they do about Helen. There should be no "sides" when it comes to the safety of our streets, playgrounds, sidewalks, etc. We should all want that - regardless of our race, wealth, etc. For you to turn this into a "you versus us" struggle instead of coming out and wanting to work with the community as a whole shows just how out of touch Helen Shiller and her supporters are.
ReplyDeleteUhhh . . . . so when is the rally taking place. Where, what time, what day?
ReplyDeleteThe only posts Ive seen so far are by those asking that the rally not take place during a time that inconveniences him/her.
Tomorrow would be best! The media already has the recent shootings on their radar, and they would jump on this as a follow up.
ReplyDeleteDate? Time? Place?
ReplyDelete"Uhhh . . . . so when is the rally taking place. Where, what time, what day?
ReplyDeleteThe only posts Ive seen so far are by those asking that the rally not take place during a time that inconveniences him/her."
Kind of ironic Anon 9:57/10:26, considering the job of Alderman seems to incovenience Shiller except on payday. Being that you seem to be a Shiller supporter you probably don't understand the concept of a job. In which you must request time off from your employer and that employer often asks for fair notice of that time off.
In your thick headed support of Shiller you miss the point. Nobody wants to get shot, no matter their race or economic status or political views(voting for Shiller ot otherwise), so the idea of sides here is stupid. The idea of not getting shot should not be polarizing us further. IMO it should be the one thing we can all agree on.
"Kind of ironic Anon 9:57/10:26, considering the job of Alderman seems to incovenience Shiller except on payday. Being that you seem to be a Shiller supporter you probably don't understand the concept of a job. In which you must request time off from your employer and that employer often asks for fair notice of that time off."
ReplyDeleteAlso kind of ironic that she keeps getting re-elected.
Elected by about 700 votes when you have the full backing of the Daley machine? I wouldn't call that ironic--I would call it business as usual.
ReplyDeleteTomorrow would work for me!
ReplyDeleteMy friends, may I please offer a suggestion? As the crime and neglect affect our homes, I think it would be most appropriate to protest in front of hers. Which, incidentally is in a beautiful neighborhood that is almost completely surrounded by Alderman Smiths ward. To be frank, the crime, etc is personal and affects my home value. Let us make it personal for her as well..
ReplyDeleteOk, let's keep this discussion on when, where and what time the rally will be. Do not let people derail the discussion. I think we should make some signs too, with catchy slogans like "The only place there is no crime is HEAVEN."
ReplyDelete10:54 AM wrote: "Tomorrow would work for me!"
ReplyDeleteWell, we're getting somewhere, sort of.
I also suggest we plan this a couple of weeks in advance to both receive maximum media coverage and maximum participation. We can then have it posted on other websites like Craigslist, Metromix, Yelp, etc.. If you want to do this, do it right. If 10 people show up, it is a joke...if you want impact, make it impactful. Understand, however, that I am sure she will make sure she is not at home and will probably have counterrally folks there. We really would not want only a few of our folks there vs. a ton of her homeless and drug addicts counterprotesting. Although ,that would make for FANTASTIC media.. her dregs of society vs. responsible taxpaying homeowners...
ReplyDelete"I also suggest we plan this a couple of weeks in advance to both receive maximum media coverage and maximum participation. We can then have it posted on other websites like Craigslist, Metromix, Yelp, etc.. If you want to do this, do it right. If 10 people show up, it is a joke...if you want impact, make it impactful. ..."
ReplyDeleteYada yada yada.
I vote for a planned rally vs a rushed-one also to maximize participation and exposure. In addition, many people have vacation plans as this weekend is Memorial Day weekend and many will not be able to participate if it is this weekend.
ReplyDeleteThen what about next weekend? That would give us plenty of time to organize and maybe get UNC or UCC involved.
ReplyDeleteboy does this news story ring true today:
ReplyDeleteHelen Shiller Soft On Crime Video
Not to worry if the rally don't ever happen . . . . 'cos there's something new every day to upset and outrage Uptown Update's Computer Keyboard Warriors
ReplyDeleteI think we should do it next weekend, and march from her office to HER HOME on Carmen. Maximum exposure.
ReplyDeleteI think the posting of that video clip absolved everyone from feeling that additional rallies are needed.
ReplyDeleteI think that video shows people the type of rally we should expect. If we have this rally next weekend, that gives everyone plenty of time to make some signs and get organized and spread the word.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what sweet nothings Helen Shiller whispered into Prince Richie's ear before she flirtatiously ran her fingers through her hair?
ReplyDeleteSeriously, I would suggest a rally next Saturday (to get maximum turnout from people who don't need YET ANOTHER reason to take a day off work to make government work in Uptown). I would also suggest that some organizers meet in private beforehand to discuss media, signage, location options, etc. We've got trolls here. If the group is too big for someone's home, I have some ideas about more public space that we could use. How should we arrange this?
Thanks 11:02 for reiterating the most important part of my post!
ReplyDeleteI also suggest we plan this a couple of weeks in advance to both receive maximum media coverage and maximum participation. We can then have it posted on other websites like Craigslist, Metromix, Yelp, etc.. If you want to do this, do it right. If 10 people show up, it is a joke...if you want impact, make it impactful.
There are also numerous block club websites we can contact via this website.....
ReplyDelete"Not to worry if the rally don't ever happen . . . . 'cos there's something new every day to upset and outrage Uptown Update's Computer Keyboard Warriors"
ReplyDeleteAre you volunteering to be the next innocent bystander, anonymous 11:14 a.m? Because I will protest even your demise. No one deserves to be shot down in cold blood on a street corner.
Now we are making some progress. Someone could post their email for people to personally contact for organization purposes. Shiller has sent out her trolls to derail the conversation here. Also, look for her to issue some sort of dopey response to the violence here. If Greg Harris and Heather Steans actually put some pressure on her to address her constituents, she has no choice.
ReplyDeleteCan we all at least agree that it should be next weekend? Can we plan from there?
ReplyDeleteJust a thought... perhaps we look at planning this out a couple of weeks in advance so there can be true organization. Invite Daley, and if he doesnt accept, look at protesting at something Daley is attending as well, seeing he seems to be a supporter of her. If he can attend crime rallies on the southside, I think it important he attend it on the northsida as well
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of when coworkers discuss projects via email correspondence: Always lots of questions and ideas, never any follow-through.
ReplyDeleteThat's the unspoken problem with computer keyboard advocacy.
We can invite Daley to come next weekend. He has a week to plan. Let's stick with next weekend.
ReplyDeleteThen, lets pick a time and place to have a meeting post it on various social boards to actually plan this
ReplyDeleteSomeone make a handout that we can give to passersby. I will go to staples and make copies.
ReplyDeleteMy graphics skills are not the best or I would.
This should be on ongoing every weekend picket on her office.
If I get a flyer to copy I will be there with it noon till 3 next saturday.
Anyone want to join me?
"Also kind of ironic that she keeps getting re-elected."
ReplyDeleteNot really considering the pieces of crap that don't live here, get their state id's at her office, register their address at one of the homeless shelters, get their free pack of smokes and then vote for Shiller.
Just like Shiller, the people who vote for her don't care about the neighborhood because they don't live in the neighborhood.
In Chicago nothing about politics is ironic.
If we want this to be organized someone needs to contact all the neighborhood groups, and have them help spread the word. THEY HAVE EMAIL LISTS!!! This comment train is not a good place to try to organize this. Set a time, and get access to a few hundred, or thousand emails. Then post bulletins at the L-stations. IMHO.
ReplyDeleteI think a great place to start soliciting support from those that are helping protest the Day Labor storefront on Sheridan. They raised $20k in a couple of weeks to take the city to court on this, so are obviously very involved..
ReplyDeletePretty funny to think that all the troll comments might just antagonize enough people to actually pull off the rally that someone first proposed nearly four hours ago.
ReplyDeleteNoon next Saturday in front of Shillers office it is! Now plan from there.
ReplyDeleteI think its more impactful in front of her home.... where her neighbors , etc can hear us..
ReplyDeleteif we do it in front of her office, it is just the drug addicts and prostitutes that will be there...not real taxpayers
ReplyDeleteWe can start the rally in front of her office then march up Broadway to Carmen then over to her house to end the rally.
ReplyDeleteI can do the leg work to notify my block club. As things shape up we should have a meeting with interested people here and also as many block club presidents we can. Is there any way that we can prevent Shiller from turning a "stop the violence" event into something polarizing?
ReplyDeleteLet her try. We can't worry about that. So next Saturday at noon we meet in front of Shiller's office, then head up Broadway to her house? Is that the plan?
ReplyDeleteSomeone might want to contact the media now to let them know the deal. They can put it on their daybook.
ReplyDelete"if we do it in front of her office, it is just the drug addicts and prostitutes that will be there...not real taxpayers"
ReplyDeleteWhich would be perfect. The "real taxpayers" are already on board. It's the dealers and hookers you want to send notice to that a change is in the works. You WANT them to take notice, to see that you're "as mad as hell..." etc.
"Someone might want to contact the media now to let them know the deal."
ReplyDeleteHere we go with that "someone" business again.
So tentatively we will meet on Saturday May 31 at NOON in front of Shiller's office and then march up Broadway and end at her house on Carmen.
ReplyDeleteJust checked Shiller's website site and this is when the ward office is open on Saturdays:
ReplyDelete"Alderman Shiller's 46th Ward Community Service Office is also open the first Saturday of each month from 9am to 11am."
Therefore, I would suggest that the rally happen on June 7, 2008 from 9 AM to .....
This would allow time for more organizing, contacting the press, and getting more concerned residents to attend. We might also have some of the ward staff (if they hold to what they clam on their website) in attendence as well on that day to either shut the door in our collective faces or talk to us.
All those in favor of doing it June 7 when the ward office is open on Saturday instead of May 31, say AYE!
ReplyDeleteAYE!
Perfect date...
ReplyDeleteFor media interest it should probably be sooner rather than later. Why not do the "event" on the 31st but come back the following Saturday to demand answers for what has not been done?
ReplyDeleteAYE! June 7 at 9am in front of Shiller's office.
ReplyDeleteSeems to me a better idea would be to identify, map out, then spend the afternoon marching to and protesting in front of the ward's problem buildings that house criminals and prostitutes. We could end with a rally in front of Shiller's office or home.
ReplyDeleteWe really should be confronting the true sources of crime directly instead in a passive-aggressive way by only picketing Shiller. Judging by assessments of her on this blog, she'd just ignore us anyway.
I realize we might end up looking like a lynch mob, but desperate conditions call for desperate measures. The Bush adm had the same idea in mind when they created Abu Ghraib prison.
Doing it June 7 will give us plenty of time to organize. Sad to say, there will surely be more crime between now and then to illustrate our cause. No more second guessing, let's stick with June 7. Can I get a "hell ya?"
ReplyDeleteA fish's stink starts at the head. Protest Schiller, but I really do think it is important that we reach out to Daley and ask him to join the anti-violence march. It would be very interesting to see his response...
ReplyDeleteAnother added bonus of doing it June 7 is that by then, the WY deadline will have come and gone. It would give the media a chance to question Shiller on that as well.
ReplyDeleteDoing it June 7 would give us plenty of time to invite Daley. Let's stick with that and stop the indecisiveness.
ReplyDeleteJK, great point on the Wilson Yard thing. although the point should really be about the violence aspect. They will come in and turn 3 shovels of dirt at WY if we are going to protest that and say.. See, we told it was going to start...
ReplyDeletejkw---sold. I am all for June 7th. Let's use this time to organize something really terrific. Some of us should meet beforehand in person along with as many block presidents as possible. If I arrange for a public space to do this, maybe people could email UU for where and when? It is pathetic that we would have to have a private meeting but the trolls will just come and disrupt the "official" planning if we don't do it that way.
ReplyDeleteA little birdie tells us we have someone willing to design some flyers to pass out.
ReplyDeleteI do think the rally needs to be publicized in other ways in addition to computer-based means. Pablo mentioned flyers and I think that is important in order to reach a broader range of Uptown's citizens who are as outraged about the recent violence as the people who read and post here.
ReplyDeleteOnce the flyers have been designed, we will post a link to them and people can print them out till their heart's content and pass them out to neighbors. Done.
ReplyDeleteOK. Now, I ask this as a serious question. What is our specific goal of this protest? I think we all agree that Shiller is not going to care about this.. so what is the end result we hope to acheive?
ReplyDeleteWhat about asking Cappleman to join us and use his email list as well btw?
ReplyDelete"Here we go with that "someone" business again."
ReplyDeleteI live in Edgewater and as such have an interest in what goes on in Uptown. Hence the "someone" from there I included in my post... got it? We have problems of our own we're working on. Just trying to help. Won't do it again, sorry...
anon 1:03 - ignore the haters - they are counterproductive - let me speak for the rest of us here that we appreciate your help and concern.
ReplyDeleteI think we invite Daley and then ask him what happened? I mean a year ago he came up here and claimed there was no violence or gangs in Uptown. Ask him what our current leadership could have done to keep our ward such a crime-free environment.
ReplyDeleteI love when liars get called out!
Gosh, do you suppose our State Representative Greg Harris will come talk to our protesters like he just did this past month at the State Capital. He made a point to meet and greet and photo-op when the 44th Ward Lakeview Citizens, and the 47th Ward Night Ministry, and the 48th Ward Neon Street Dorms demanded more teen homeless shelters in our neighborhood during the Chicago Coalition of the Homeless protest rally.
ReplyDeleteAfer all, we're dealing with a kid who was shot dead by gangs. That's a bigger issue than a being a homeless kid in his district.
Source: http://www.chicagohomeless.org/
Daley will be too busy stomping around throwing tantrums about how Chicagoans hate poor minority children because they don't want them to have a beautiful underground Children's museum. Or, he will be holding guard with a fire hose in front of his vacation home IN MICHIGAN to keep the arsonists away. Either way, he will be too busy to address the fact that the gun violence on our streets is putting young people in harms way.
ReplyDeleteAnon 12:58 makes a very important point. What do you possibly hope to accomplish?
ReplyDeleteHaving participated in many an Uptown rally, march, peaceful loitering, police roll call, I can honestly say Uptown's crime is spiraling out of control.
People are filled with angry and fear.
We are outraged by an alderman who refuses to even acknowledge that Uptown has an increasingly serious gang, gun and violence problem.
We are outraged by an alderman who wants to build the worst nightmare of urban planning with yet another segregated subsidized highrise smack dab in the middle of this crime infested neighborhood.
We are outraged by an alderman who refuses to work for improving deporable conditions of the Wilson El station, instead giving
$10 million of our tax dollars to build a parking garage right next door to this dangerous, avoid at all costs, El station.
How do you direct this anger and fear into reviving our community?
It's going to take a fresh new approach beyond a rally.
You've said it all, anonymous 1:50. I think the rally will be a great opportunity to get people talking so that we can create more action. Let's work for a big turnout across BOTH of Uptown's wards.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read or seen a comment about the fact that, once again, some major crime happened in front of her office!!! Maybe I missed as there have been 250+ posts on this topic. We've had two HUGE gang fights at the corner of Wilson and Broadway (1/4 of a block way), a bullet hole in her own ward office and now this murder on her office block (more or less directly across the street). AND SHE HAS YET TO COMMENT ABOUT ANY OF IT!!! the lead post on her website is about fuckin' Cubs game time change!!!!! How helpful of her, nevermind the violence and death. Soft on crime hardly describes her position on crime. Reminds me of the officer on South Park, "Move along! Nothing to see here! Nothing to see!"
ReplyDeleteDid you see that look that Schiller gave him at the end of the video?...Totally doin' him!
ReplyDelete"A fish's stink begins at the head."
ReplyDeleteWho (besides me) on this blog knows Russian mob sayings and why?
For the love of all that is searchable on Google, spell the Alderbeast's name right. It's Shiller, not Schiller.
ReplyDeleteLet's make sure that online search engines can forever access her evil deeds by spelling her name correctly (and in full would be nice also.)
I haven't been spelling Helen Shiller's name incorrectly, but I will make sure to spell Chicago Alderman Helen Shiller's name correctly in the future.
ReplyDeleteHelen Shiller of Uptown, Chicago, and Helen Shiller formerly of Justice Graphics, The Heart of Uptown Coalition, friend to the Black Panthers and beloved confidant of Walter "Slim" Coleman shouldn't be a victim of misspellings any longer. We are so sorry for that---Helen Shiller---sympathetic friend to Mayor Richard M. Daley (son of Richard J. Daley, Chicago machine boss, perhaps best remembered by Helen Shiller herself for the 1968 Democratic National Convention and him being associated with the neighborhood of Bridgeport's Hamburg Social Club.)
It would be a shame if someone were to confuse Chicago 46th Ward Alderman Helen Shiller with someone who was not a complete sell-out to her own stated ideals.