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So forgive us, but we are not impressed with corporations donating money towards champagne and caviar for the world's leading military powers while they are in town for the weekend. As Chicago neighborhoods reel from escalating killings of African-American and Latino children because of the lack of jobs and investment in low-income neighborhoods, as foreclosed properties that afore-mentioned banks are supposed to be maintaining continue to be dens for drug-use and sexual assault, as schools in working class neighborhoods continue to be short-changed and on the chopping block, raising tens of millions of dollars for social activities and security for the NATO summit does not merit praise. Not when the corporate donors took our tax dollars in the first place.
Instead of raising funds for corporate junkets, World Business Chicago should put their vigor into raising $100 million for neighborhood jobs -- summer jobs for youth, jobs for parent patrols to keep our kids safe, and jobs to clean up abandoned housing in our communities. A world-class city takes care of its neighborhoods.
Chicago taxpayers are indeed on the hook. The city just doesn't want us to know it."
rest at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amisha-patel/chicago-nato-summit-funding_b_1397302.html
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