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Protests

Adbusters

Bernie Lubell | March 22, 2012, 12:46 pm

They’re calling for 50,000 protesters to descend upon Chicago for a month in May, and activity magazine Adbusters hopes that they will “pull off the biggest multinational occupation of a summit meeting the world has ever seen.” Adbusters is one of the organizations that helped launch the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011.

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