We will be rallying in Federal Plaza Nov 30th at 11am to end US involvement in in the Saudi war on Yemen. At this event, we will be laying out 44 backpacks to symbolize the lives of the 44 Yemeni children who lost their lives because a Lockheed Martin missile launched by a Saudi warplane on August 7th 2018.

The US has been complicit in war crimes in Yemen for years and it’s time to cut support. There will be several guest speakers including Yemen-born activist and scholar Shireen Al-Adeimi.

We hope this rally helps people learn about the conflict and gets them to pressure congress to stop the war.

The House and Senate are voting on two bills in the coming weeks. If passed, Senate Joint Resolution 54 and House Resolution138 would end US military involvement in Saudi Arabia’s War on Yemen. Please ask your representative and both your senators to co-sponsor them by calling 1-833-STOP-WAR.

Hope you can make it 11/30!

Million Mask March in Chicago ’18

This Veterans Day makes a 100 years since the end of World War I and the first Armistices Day. In honor of all those lost in the past 100 years of conflict About Face: Veterans Against the War, Iraq Veterans Against the War, and Vietnam Veterans Against the War will host a ceremony to mark this historic moment, remember all those lost, speak out against U.S. current failed foreign policy, and bring attention to the deportation of US military veterans and the Right to Heal VA Campaign.

On Monday, CPAC was voted on in the Public Safety Committee. This decision will be voted on Wednesday, and thus CPAC will be up for a vote. The time for CPAC is now! FLOOD CITY HALL!

Monday’s vote was a vote to kill CPAC entirely. At the end of the meeting, the chair said that their vote will be brought back to the City Council on Wed for a vote from the larger body. They will be voting on if they agree with the decision to kill CPAC. Tell your alderman to vote NO against the public safety committee action.

For too long, our current “accountability” system has been denying justice to survivors of police crimes and their families. COPA/IPRA and the police board, in assistance with CPD, the FOP, the Mayor’s office, and the Courts, have been letting killer cops roam free to harm more Black and brown working families. The solution is community control of the police through an all-elected civilian police accountability system (CPAC). This movement has 55,000 supporters and nearly 60 endorsing organizations. Last summer, the Public Safety Committee’s community hosted community hearings on police accountability which were dominated by support for CPAC. Ald. Reboyras, chair of the committee, ignores this movement and continues to sit in the pocket of the Mayor and the FOP.

Jason Van Dyke is one of a few police officers convicted of 2nd degree murder for the killing of an unarmed Black youth. The movement for justice for Laquan put him behind bars. We are now in a moment where the system is vulnerable and the people are organized and ready. The time for real systemic change is now!

CALL YOUR ALDERMAN! Find their phone number: https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/mayor/iframe/lookup_ward_and_alderman.html

#CPACNow!

35th ward alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa is bringing a proposal for an elected Civilian Police Accountability Council (CPAC) to a vote at the City Council meeting this Wednesday, October 31st. Let’s get a strong showing of UIC students showing our support for CPAC.

Read more about CPAC here: http://naarpr.org/civilian-police-accountability-council-cpac/

ABOUT THE SPONSORS

UIC Student Action is a student-led grassroots organization at the University of Illinois at Chicago that organizes for economic, racial, and gender justice both on and off campus.

The Jane Addams Advocacy Initiative is a student-led, faculty-supported group of the UIC Jane Addams College of Social Work that seeks to offer social work students a pathway to fulfill our ethical duty “to be aware of the impact of the political arena and advocate for changes in policy and legislation to improve social conditions in order to meet basic human needs and promote social justice” (NASW Code of Ethics, 2008).

Join an interfaith, inter-community vigil of solidarity in memory of the fallen members of the Tree of Life Synagogue. Anti-Semitism can have no home in America. We must call it out directly as well as speaking out against homophobia, transphobia, islamophobia, xenophobia, racism, sexism, and bigotry of all forms. Join us to mourn, pray, and stand in solidarity.

Last week, Ald. Carlos Rosa announced his plans to envoke Rule 41 to finally free the CPAC ordinance from the Public Safety Committee and force the City Council to vote on the bill on Wed, Oct 31st. Ald Reboyras, the chair of that committee, has called for an emergency meeting of the city council on Monday at Noon to block the vote from happening. Arrive at 10:30 AM to sign up to speak.

After five public hearings dominated by support for CPAC, after mobilizing thousands in the streets on Black Friday and other major rallies, after garnering 55,000 supporters in every ward (more than *any other* police accountability ordinance) - the City Council refuses to acknowledge the overwhelming support for community control of the police. In the wake of the conviction of Jason Van Dyke, the people are demanding systemic change and real accountability. Members of the city council continue to enable police murders and police violence by refusing to stand on the side of justice.

Everyone in the greater Chicago area needs to get on their phone, call Ald. Ariel Reboyras, Chair of the Public Safety Committee and demand that he allow CPAC to get on the City Council floor for a vote Oct. 31, 2018. Ald. Reboyras’ phone number is: (773)794-3095.

Failure to allow this vote will be a slap in the face of every family affected by police murder and police torture, and we, and they, they won’t stand for it! The community has spoken: CPAC Now!

On October 29, 2018, 21 youth will confront the federal government at the #TrialoftheCentury in open court.

They are the #youthvgov plaintiffs in Juliana v. United States, and they allege that the U.S. government has knowingly violated their constitutional rights for over 50 years by contributing to climate change. They’re asking for a science-based National Climate Recovery Plan. This plan would end the reign of fossil fuels and require the United States government to do its part to stop dangerous climate change for young people and all future generations.

These brave youth need your help.

Join us from the rally at the federal courthouse in Illinois to be a part of the #TrialoftheCentury and support these young climate warriors. Our freedom depends on a climate system that will sustain human life. Let’s show the government that it has a duty to prepare and implement a Climate Recovery Plan to protect our basic and most fundamental rights!

To help us plan and organize these rallies, sign up at https://actionnetwork.org/forms/organize-a-rally-in-your-community

For more information or to find the rally in a different state, visit www.youthvgov.org/october29

To get email updates from Our Children’s Trust, sign up here: www.youthvgov.org/join