8 Anti-War Protesters Arrested At Obama Campaign Headquarters

Monday, May 14, 2012

Though the NATO summit won't officially begin until later this week, police have already ramped up their presence in downtown Chicago and, on Monday morning, they made a number of arrests at President Obama's campaign headquarters.

After a group of demonstrators rushed into Prudential Plaza, the building where Obama's re-election campaign is based, eight protesters were led away in handcuffs when they refused to leave the building's lobby, the Chicago Tribune reports. Police said the arrested demonstrators would likely be charged with criminal trespass.

The group was organized by the Catholic Worker movement and, according to Fox Chicago, was attempting to open up a dialogue around ending the U.S. occupation in Afghanistan. The action is part of what activists are calling a "week without capitalism."

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