Partners:

Center for Changing Lives
Chicago Teacher’s Union
Logan Square Neighborhood Association
LUCHA
Somos Logan Square

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Join us and be part of the solution. It’s now or never for an inclusive and diverse Logan Square.

WHY WE ARE MARCHING

Families are more important than profit. We are tired of the Mayor and elected officials ignoring solutions to gentrification.

We want elected officials to do better for people of color.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

March with us on October 23rd.

Vote on November 6 and February 26.

LOGAN SQUARE FACTS:

19,200 Latinx displaced between 2000-2014

30% less families

Most teardowns in 2017

Most dramatic rent increase in city

SOLUTIONS:

Equitable transit oriented development

Demolition fee + local impact fund

Affordable homeownership for low income families

Family size units

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Únase a nuestra causa y sea parte de la solución para una comunidad más inclusiva. Es ahora o nunca.

¿POR QUÉ MARCHAMOS?

Las familias son mas importantes que el lucro. Estamos hartos de que el alcalde y nuestros representantes políticos ignoren nuestras soluciones al desplazamiento.

Queremos que las personas elegidas para representarnos trabajen mejor para las familias y personas de color.

¿QUÉ PUEDE HACER USTED?

Marche con nosotros el 23 de octubre.

Vote el 6 de noviembre y el 26 de febrero.

DATOS SOBRE LOGAN SQUARE:

19,200 Latin@s desplazad@s entre 2000 y 2014

30% menos de familias

Comunidad con el mayor número de demoliciones en 2017

Subida de rentas más dramática en la ciudad

SOLUCIONES

Viviendas accesibles y asequibles cerca del tren

Pago de comisiones por demoliciones en beneficio de un fondo comunitario

Descuentos en el precio de vivienda para familias que quieren comprar su casa

Departamentos y casas para familias de todos los tamaños

The conviction of Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke for the murder and aggravated battery against Laquan McDonald raises the question of changing the structure of policing in Chicago to a new level. The people of Chicago expect action by our civic leaders to correct a situation in which Black and Brown people are wantonly killed by police while seemingly countless homicides take place unsolved. Clearly, “reform” is on the agenda, and we need the members of the City Council need to take a stand.

On October 23, 2018, at 10:00 am on the 2nd Floor of City Hall, Alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35th) will join with other Aldermen and community organizations to announce that they will invoke City Council Rule 41 to bring this ordinance to the floor for a vote.

The people have spoken In hearings across the city – the Mayor’s Task Force on Police Accountability, the City Council Public Safety Committee, and the U. S. Department of Justice. The people want democratic community control of the police, such as that embodied in the pending ordinance establishing an all-elected Civilian Police Accountability Council (CPAC). In addition to the hearings, over 55,000 people have signed postcards to their aldermen demanding passage of this bill.

On October 29, 2018, Reed will be granted a new evidentary hearing. The Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression calls on all people to join with Gerald Reed’s large family and community of friends to pack the court room and demand his immediate release. Join us on the 29th at 1PM at the Cook County Criminal Courthouse (26th and California), room 604 to free Gerald Reed!

On October 3, 1990, Gerald Reed, 27, was arrested and questioned about a double murder by Detectives Michael Kill and Victor Breska at Area 3 Homicide, members of the notorious “Midnight Crew” of torturer Jon Burge. They beat him and kicked him repeatedly, and broke a metal rod that was in his right thigh along with the surgical screws that held it in place, causing him excruciating pain. The rod had been surgically placed years before to repair his thigh-bone, which had been shattered by a gunshot.

Reed signed a false confession to end the beatings, but that did not stop the torture. For 27 years, Reed has been incarcerated for a crime he did not commit and the extensive damage to his leg has not been properly taken care of. Learn more about his case by visiting caarpr.org/freegeraldreed

WE’RE BACK ON!

Join us as we demand an end to money bail and continue the fight for mass liberation!

Take action to transform the racist criminal justice system from one based on over-policing and mass incarceration to one based on restorative justice and reinvestment in communities of color!

Call on the judges at Cook County Central Bond Court to stop locking people up for being Black and poor!

Take money out of the criminal justice system and put it into jobs, schools, and public services in communities of color!