"Could the Nato and G8 summits scheduled for May put Chicago at the crossroads of the next global uprising of the 99 percent?"
Easily the stupidest thing I've read all year (though we're still early). You berate and probably alienate possible allies (eg. Moore) while basing your sense of the 'hood on kooks like "long-time Chicago protest organizer" A. Thaye.
I put it here just so I'll be able to go back to it in a couple of months and laugh.