We were glad to be in the die-in yesterday at Hyde Park Academy as we protested the Obama Library #TraumaCenterNow pic.twitter.com/GicSn6HJG6
— JCUA Chicago (@JCUA_News) January 14, 2015
You mean people’s lives are more important than a library for the imperial President? Who’d a thunk?
Via Huff Post:
The University of Chicago’s status as a shoo-in for the future Barack Obama Presidential Library site has taken a hit in recent weeks — and now, even some of Obama’s South Side neighbors are speaking out against the proposal.
They argue the university needs to re-open its hospital’s trauma center far more than it needs to host a presidential library.
Demonstrators staged a die-in to that end at Hyde Park Academy High School on Tuesday night, just before hundreds of attendees packed the auditorium for the first of two contentious public hearings on the university’s library bid.