{"id":10685,"date":"2009-09-15T05:20:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T10:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10685"},"modified":"2009-09-15T05:20:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T10:20:55","slug":"ben-dangl-justice-follows-direct-action-former-boss-of-occupied-chicago-factory-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10685","title":{"rendered":"Ben Dangl: Justice Follows Direct Action: Former Boss of Occupied Chicago Factory Jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zcommunications.org\/zspace\/bendangl\">Ben Dangl&#8217;s ZSpace Page<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zcommunications.org\/zspace\">ZSpace<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Richard Gillman, the former CEO of  Chicago&#8217;s Republic Windows and Doors factory where over 200 workers organized a <a href=\"http:\/\/towardfreedom.com\/home\/content\/view\/1477\/66\/\">victorious sit-in<\/a> last year, has been sent to jail on eight charges including felony, theft, fraud, and money laundering. After the judge announced the $10 million bail, the shocked and dazed Gillman, dressed in a pin-striped  suit, was hauled away to the county jail.<\/p>\n<p>Republic workers captured the attention of  the world when they occupied their plant on December 5, 2008 calling for the  severance and vacation pay they were due. The sit-in ended six days later when  the Bank of America and other lenders to Republic <a href=\"http:\/\/towardfreedom.com\/home\/content\/view\/1506\/68\/\">agreed to pay<\/a> the workers the approximately $2 million owed to  them. Recently, the workers won another victory with the arrest of  Gillman.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zcommunications.org\/zspace\/bendangl\">Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Dangl&#8217;s ZSpace Page \/ ZSpace Richard Gillman, the former CEO of Chicago&#8217;s Republic Windows and Doors factory where over 200 workers organized a victorious sit-in last year, has been sent to jail on eight charges including felony, theft, fraud, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10685\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-2Ml","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10685"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10689,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10685\/revisions\/10689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}