We cannot tolerate the increasing #privatization of the essential industries we rely upon everyday! If the Postal Service is privatized, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders predicts that “tens of millions of people, particularly low-income people and people in rural areas, will see a decline in or doing away with basic mail services.”

We hope you will join us and the American Postal Workers Union on Monday, October 8 to protect the Postal Services!

Heartland Alliance runs 9 detention centers for migrant children in the Chicago area. Heartland has been able to build huge political capital as a Humanitarian organization, while doing the dirty work of the federal government to target, incarcerate and exploit migrant children and communities. This is their annual fundraiser Gala, where Heartland and their philanthrocapitalist friends gather to celebrate their white savior accomplishments — all the while disavowing their role in marginalizing, oppressing and extracting profit from poor communities of color.

Come help us ruin their dinner!

Heartland uses their sprawling social services empire as proof they are indispensable to helping poor communities survive in the wake of the receding public sector. In reality, they are a key player in the private-public partnerships that have cynically redefined the public sphere in order to extract maximum profit from Black and Brown communities — from so-called affordable housing to medical care and family services. Their lucrative migrant child prison business is the most obvious and naked example of recasting racist state-sponsored violence and market-driven profit as “service”, “care” and “shelter”. Heartland’s enormous political power is used to normalize the criminalization and detention of migrant children, and leveraged to disinform communities about the realities of the child detention business.

Over 100 child detention centers operate around the US, holding over 12,000 children. All of these facilities are calling themselves a form of “shelter”, and all are gaining increased legitimacy in the wake of Dump’s increased assault on migrant children. Compared to the massive influx “tent camps”, facilities like Heartland’s are supposed to look like a good alternative. But this masks the cycle of so-called “border crises” the US government has been producing, intentionally creating “capacity shortage” by capturing and prosecuting more and more migrants, using overcrowding and miserable conditions as excuses to expand and normalize the detention system. Children have repeatedly been used as an effective leverage in this political game. The solution to the capacity crisis is not more “nicer” prisons. It is an end to the kidnapping and prosecution of migrants.

Brett Kavanaugh has enough votes to be confirmed to the Supreme Court, and a Blue Wave won’t save us! A accused rapist will now be an integral part of reversing Roe vs Wade and devolving a women’s rights by 50 years and more. He also believes that anyone in the Executive Branch (this includes Trump) is exempt from criminal investigation, let alone prosecution
Donald Trump is under investigation and yet he is able to install a judge that will literally get him off and form a fascist majority on the Supreme Court. We can’t allow for this to happen! The Democrats took part in this sham confirmation process and gave it credibility instead of rightfully walking out. Only the fury of women standing up to this railroad posed any real challenge to it.
IT IS UP TO US TO DRIVE OUT THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME!!! That’s the lesson we need to draw from this battle. Let’s gather on Saturday, October 6th, beginning at noon in Federal Plaza. We must DEMAND Brett Kavanaugh not be confirmed to the Supreme Court where he will further consolidate the fascist agenda of the Trump/Pence regime, coming after women, Muslims, people with disabilities, immigrants, Black and brown people, freedom of the press and the right to dissent.
NO! WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT A FASCIST AMERICA! THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME MUST GO1

NOTE: Recurring event ~ also today, and until the trial ends. Please see the organizer’s link.

Stand with community starting on September 5th at 8am to lay witness to Jason Van Dyke on trial for the murder of Laquan McDonald.

ALL organizations are urged to attend or demonstrate solidarity as we remember Laquan, the 16 shots, and the cover-up.

WE WANT ALL CHICAGOANS TO PAY ATTENTION!

Despite popular belief that Christopher Columbus discovered America, there is historical proof that there were American Indians (or Indigenous Peoples) living in America long before Columbus and other Europeans arrived. Due to European colonization, American Indians suffered the loss of their land, homes, lives, and culture. Their presence in our American history is largely unknown and their culture has received little appreciation or respect.
For these reasons, we ask for your support in changing the name from Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day. This is our effort to raise awareness and appreciation for American Indians and their culture which serve as the roots of our land. We hope to celebrate American Indians! It is time for our schools, our city, and our State to make a change! As students and staff of West Town Academy, are ready to make this change and fight for the acknowledgement of our country’s true history!

Please join us on Monday, October 8th at 11:45am to protest. Location: 1 W Wacker Dr. Chicago, IL.

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!

Every Saturday: 2-4pm
Three Cornered Island of Peace
Milwaukee, Logan and Kedzie Aves.

Since Tuesday Sept. 2, 2003, we have protested ALL Wars. This Sat. is Gathering # 843. NSPG is not connected to any political party or group. It is open to anyone opposed to war and it’s root cause capitalism. Bring a sign and a friend.
Join us. Or DO Something, Sometime, Somewhere.. Bur always remember. SILENCE IS CONSENT, Get Angry! Get Active.
Now starting our 16th year, with the terrible threat of tRUMP, we are also protesting his Fascism.
STAND UP AGAINST WAR!