Educating with Impunity

Chicagoans for Environmental Responsibility (CER) gathered outside of the Sears flagship store at State and Madison. Ten of us marched into the shop with banners, posters, flyers, education and dramatics. Costumes included suits and trees. It wasn't too long before our group was kicked out. The flustered store manager refused to receive the eviction notice and looked forward to having the police remove us from the sidewalk outside the store. Unfortunately for him, when the police did show up he not only maintained the legality of our flyering and chanting but also supported our cause, agreeing that he, too, didn't want 150-degree Chi-town summers. He left us and we were able to get to work, moving customers and crowds against Sears and for forests, convincing a number of people to call corporate headquarters to express their clearcut disapproval of Sears' policies. Fun.

Also around the city we had a couple other CER-fire stops, with two flyering and evicting a store manager at the Mag Mile J. Crew, and another eviction notice being dropped off at the North Avenue location.