Not One More! We Will Unite to Shut it Down for Stephon, Laquan, Alton, Rekia and All Victims of Racist Police Terror on the Anniversary of MLK’s Assassination.

Let’s get out into the streets in solidarity with Sacramento. Let’s build a movement to bring an end to the institutionalized violence against Black and Brown communities.

We will stop the war on Black america!
We need money for schools, housing, jobs, education and healthcare, not more cops!
We demand justice and power!

On April 4, we will also unite with immigrants and all those who are under attack by Washington, Wall Street and the Pentagon.

Initiated by BLM Women of Faith and Answer Chicago

Spread the word! Let’s build the movement!

NOTE: This event has been postponed, and thus cancelled by the organizers. We will remove it from our site within 24 hours.

Thousands of people are locked up before trial simply because they are too poor to afford bail. We have made progress in decreasing the number of people incarcerated before trial through Chief Judge Evans’ affordable bail order, but Sheriff Tom Dart is attacking and defying this order. He has publicly spoken out against releasing people accused of violent crimes and gun possession, even though these defendants are innocent until proven guilty. And he has refused to release some defendants that judges have ordered released on electronic monitoring.

On April 12, a lawsuit is moving forward against Sheriff Dart for his inexcusable behavior in refusing to release defendants that judges have ordered released prior to trial. Join us in supporting this lawsuit and defending bail reform from Sheriff Dart’s attacks!

This is a March For Our Lives event to respond to the looming problem this country faces with school shootings and gun reform. We will be moving from the parking lot and marching across the bridge to the park on Kimball/Rt. 31 (State St.) Please invite and bring along as many people as you can so we can make an impact. After the 12:00 noon event there will also be a special March for Our Lives event to read the names of shooting victims at 2:30, as a bell tolls in remembrance. This is a companion event to the marches planned around the country. It will be held at a secondary location at the Elgin township building on 729 S. McLean Blvd. Elgin, IL. 60123. The number 17 will be a focus in honor of the Parkland school victims, and people who have died in all types of shootings will be remembered, as a reminder that we’re all in this together.

We are working with local students to coordinate a March For Our Lives event in Frankfort. Please mark yourself as interested or going so that you can get the updates as the plans unfold. Know a student who would like to also help us plan? Have them send us a message on FB or at swsuburbanactivists@gmail.com

*Youth Led* March For Our Lives in support if students across the country who are standing against gun violence.

Join us to march against gun violence in our schools. We will be joined by a variety of lawmakers and progressive groups supportive of our cause. We hope to see you there!

We will start at Lincoln Elementary at 10:00 and march to Glenbard West High School - marking the loss of lives from the littlest in Sandy Hook to High Schoolers at Stoneman Douglas. We are joining with marches all over the country marching in our community to show solidarity for those lives effected and demand comprehensive gun reform- and that we- here in Glen Ellyn want a different world for all people but especially our young people. We will hear youth from both Glenbards speak- and we will lift our voices as we move our feet for change.

The March for Our Lives movement has been a long time coming, and is the product of a nation that values objects more than human lives. The voices for the March for Our Lives are those of the generation that grew up with mass shootings.This is the sound of millions of voices across the country pleading for change- we say enough. End the violence. There has been more than enough blood, tears, and bullets- one school shooting is a school shooting too many. However, we cannot ignore the gun violence that people in the low income communities of Chicago witness in the streets, in their homes and in their classes every day. Most if not all of these tragedies are preventable. March for Our Lives Chicago holds the culprits of this plague of preventable gun violence accountable. We hold the NRA, the politicians that support them, and the arms manufacturers and dealers accountable. We also hold Illinois’ neighboring states accountable for having lax gun laws that lead to guns being brought into Illinois. Throughout this movement the voices of black and brown people have been widely ignored. With Chicago’s status as the seventh most racially diverse city in the nation, it is imperative we put a focus on intersectionality and raise these voices up. March for Our Lives Chicago includes the experiences of people of color, women, and LGBT individuals in our fight to make the streets safe for children again. In 2017, 3456 Chicago citizens were victims to gun violence. We cannot have one more.

Join us for a vigil and rally to demand that ICE not separate families in immigration detention.

The Trump Administration is pursuing this policy of separating mothers and young children when they are in detention as a way to deter immigrants coming to this country.

We know of the 7 year old child of a Congolese woman who has been held in Chicago for the past four months, while her mother has been held near San Diego. They had entered the country seeking asylum. The Brazilian mother and child seperated since August 2017. And we know there are countless more.

Faced with relentless public pressure, we expect the Congolese mother and child to be reunited this week. But we need to keep on the pressure for all of these families.

If you object to these cruel, unnecessary policies, please join us this Thursday on Federal Plaza.

Rally outside the courthouse @ 8AM
Hearing begins @ 9AM