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Adbusters - the organization that put out the initial call for an occupation of Wall Street back in September of last year - now has its eyes set on Chicago. The G8 and NATO are scheduled to hold a summit in Chicago during the first week of May - and Adbusters is calling on 50000 people from around the planet to set up tents and occupy the city in hopes of pulling off the "biggest multinational occupation of a summit meeting the world has ever seen." The list of demands Adbusters is promoting include a Robin Hood Tax - essentially a tax on stock trades - a ban on high frequency 'flash' trading - a binding climate change accord - and a three strikes and you're out law for corporate criminals. Adbusters is calling on demonstrators to "bring a tent." Of course the Occupy Chicago movement has been thriving for months now - without Adbusters - and plans have already been made for similar demonstrations against the G8 and NATO. So to many - Adbusters call for action in Chicago - is ruffling some feathers of others within the Occupy Movement. Joining Thom Hartmann from New York for more on this story is JA Myerson - journalist and contributor to Truthout - and participant in the Occupy Wall Street movement.