The Chicago Mental Health Movement demonstrates across from the street from the Woodlawn Clinic
Channel: Bob Simpson
Date: 2012-04-18

Tuesday April 17: Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has decreed that 6 of Chicago's mental health facilities be closed. The Chicago Mental Health Movement along with Occupy Chicago and other groups has been resisting this move for months. Early in the morning of Friday  April 13, 23 people were arrested after they barricaded themselves inside the Woodlawn Mental Health Clinic. On April 17, shortly after this video was made, two more people were arrested after police demanded that tents be taken down ina vacant lot across from the Clinic.