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2011-10-10 Fifth Column
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Anarchists Plan Attack On Chicago Hyatt Hotel
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Anarchist groups, led by Lisa Fithian and working with Democrats and unions on the ground in Chicago, intend forcibly to disrupt the Mortgage Bankers Association meeting at the Hyatt Regency Chicago and other locations this afternoon.
Violence is possible, as local police and security officers seem unprepared for a confrontation with thousands of activists converging on the Hyatt from multiple other staged demonstrations in Chicago.
Fithian, a veteran anarchist organizer who is widely credited with shutting down the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle in 1999, has apparently arrived in Chicago after participating in the #OccupyWallStreet demonstration in New York.
According to Big Government sources, Fithian is currently training union leaders from the Service Employees International Union and the Teamsters Union in preparation for todays demonstration. Her strategy may be to draw law enforcement officers to multiple protest sites, then to shift demonstrations suddenly to one central site.
Democratic activists and leaders, including Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), are expected to address the demonstrators today as part of Stand Up Chicago, a broad coalition of community organizing groups coordinated by the SEIU and promoted by left-wing bloggers in the area.
The Chicago demonstration is the latest example of cooperation between anarchists, unions, and Democrats, who share an interest in targeting Americas free market systemsome with the explicit intention of destroying it, others with the hope that the spectacle will help President Barack Obamas re-election efforts by inspir[ing] the progressive base.
UPDATE: The Chicago Teachers Union has posted its plans for the demonstration, including training led by Lisa Fithian. Fithians apparent strategy, as anticipated, is to stage multiple demonstrations that will then converge on one location.
UPDATE 2: The convergence point appears to be the Art Institute of Chicago.
UPDATE 3: #OccupyChicago has posted detailed plans for the various events it has planned for today. The plans include a call for activists to take matters into our own hands, and describe training classes in police confrontation.
SEIU organizers from Kansas and Missouri are also on the scene. Anarchists have arrived wearing industrial masks underneath black handkerchiefs, in possible anticipation of tear gas and pepper spray. 
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