PVSA Sportsman’s and Gun Show at the DuPage County Fairgrounds actually raffles off an AR-15. There needs to be an end to the gun show loophole. We will be outside the fairgrounds to protest the sale of guns while our children are being murdered for going to school. Bring whatever sign you would like. If your group would like to co-host please message this page or email FriendsWhoMarch@gmail.com

After the slaughter of students and staff in Parkland, Florida, the time for action has never been more urgent. The politicians sit on their hands as our children and their teachers are murdered in their schools. We will be silent no more! The failure to enact rational laws that bar access to guns designed for mass shootings is inexcusable. It is past time to speak out and act.

Pledge your support to stop gun violence here.

We call for mass action on April 20, the anniversary of the horrific shootings at Columbine High School. We urge teachers, families, students, administrators and every member of the community to engage in acts of protest in and around their schools. Create actions that work best in your community. Organize sit-ins, teach-ins, walkouts, marches–whatever you decide will show your school and community’s determination to keep our students safe. One elementary teacher suggested that teachers and parents link arms around the school to show their determination to protect children.

It is time to let our legislators know that they must stand up to the gun lobby and enact meaningful reform to protect students and staff.

Advocacy groups including the AFT, NEA and the BATS have already pledged their support.

Women’s March Youth EMPOWER is calling for students, teachers, school administrators, parents and allies to take part in a#NationalSchoolWalkout for 17 minutes at 10am across every time zone on March 14, 2026 to protest Congress’ inaction to do more than tweet thoughts and prayers in response to the gun violence plaguing our schools and neighborhoods. We need action. Students and allies are organizing the national school walkout to demand Congress pass legislation to keep us safe from gun violence at our schools, on our streets and in our homes and places of worship.

Students and staff have the right to teach and learn in an environment free from the worry of being gunned down in their classrooms or on theirway home from school.

Parents have the right to send their kids to school in the mornings and see them home alive at the end of the day.

We are not safe at school. We are not safe in our cities and towns. Congress must take meaningful action to keep us safe and pass federal gun reform legislation that address the public health crisis of gun violence. We want Congress to pay attention and take note: many of us will vote this November and many others will join in 2020.

Join us in saying #ENOUGH!

Add your event to the map or find one near you here: https://www.actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/enough-national-school-walkout

Join Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, Indivisible Chicago,Indivisible Illinois, Women’s March - Illinois, and Women’s March Chicago for this rally and march to demand gun reform from our elected officials.

This event will be less talk, more action! Names of speakers will be announced soon, but the focus will be on turning our anger and grief into next steps that each one of us can do to end gun violence.

Start Federal Plaza, 219 S Dearborn St
12:30pm - Begin to gather
1:00pm - Speakers
1:30pm - Step off, North on Dearborn
March to Daley Plaza, 50 W Washington St (0.4 miles)
2:00pm - Stop at Daley Plaza for a moment of reflection
2:10pm - Step off, East on Randolph
March to Riverwalk across from Trump Tower (0.5 miles)
End march by 3:00pm and disperse

Let’s show the rest of the country that we’re not interested in standing on the sidelines any more. It’s time to get up, stand up and be heard. There’s power in numbers, let’s come together and fight for our future.

More details to come shortly.

RSVP here to let us know you are coming! This will also sign you up for more info from Moms Demand Action - https://act.everytown.org/event/moms-demand-action-event/8323

Join the Fight for 15 protest nationwide Feb. 12 – the 50th anniversary of the historic Memphis sanitation strike - carrying on the fight for higher wages and union rights led by hundreds of black municipal workers whose 1968 walkout became a rallying cry of the Poor People’s Campaign led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

In 1968, 40% of Memphis sanitation workers relied on welfare to survive. Today 52% of fast food workers are forced to access benefits just to get by. 50 years later, we are still struggling, and we are still fighting.

As we honor the legacy of the Memphis strikers we commit ourselves to organizing forward by participating in six weeks of direct action and nonviolent civil disobedience beginning Mother’s Day as part of the new Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, uniting two of the nation’s most powerful social movements in a common fight for strong unions to lift people of all races out of poverty, break the chains of racism, challenge the morality of the military economy and address the environmental destruction that affects us all.

Go to www.FightFor15.org/IAM to declare that you are going to be part of the solution; that you are no longer willing to suffer in silence or turn a blind eye to the suffering and endless struggle around you. This is our task and our time.

Join us again, Friday, February 9th, as we continue to protest the invitation of Steve Bannon to speak at the University of Chicago.

Together we will show the University that we reject a system that gives an elevated platform to misogynistic, homophobic, white supremacist ideologies while denying freedom of speech to University of Chicago staff, students, and surrounding community members.

Help us show that Bannon and his bigoted ideologies are not welcome on our campus, in our community, or in the city of Chicago.

Please DM the UChicago Socialists - ISO, UChicago YDSA, or UofC Resists if your organization would like to endorse and/or speak from the front.

Join us on Friday to protest the invitation of Steve Bannon to speak at the University of Chicago.

Join us as we show up in solidarity with Samantha Eyler and reject a system that gives an elevated platform to misogynistic, homophobic, white supremacist ideologies while denying freedom of speech to University of Chicago staff, students, and surrounding community members.

Help us show that Bannon and his bigoted ideologies are not welcome on our campus, in our community, or in the city of Chicago.

Currently endorsed by:
UChicago YDSA
UChicago Socialists - ISO
UofC Resists
APALA Illinois
UChicago Student Action - UCSA
UChicago Race & Pedagogy Working Group

The protest will be followed by an organizing meeting, location TBD. Please DM the UChicago Socialists - ISO, UChicago YDSA, or UofC Resists if your organization would like to endorse.

Join the Refuse Fascism contingent!
Because - Fierce Women use the “F” word . . . FASCISM

9:30am - Refuse Fascism Chicago Rally
Meet up just east of the Horse at Congress & Michigan Ave.
10:45am - RF Chicago Contingent march to join the main rally
11:00am - Main Rally Begins
12:30pm - March commences

On Saturday, January 20, 2018, thousands of women, femmes and allies will come together all over the country to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the Women’s March.

We in Chicago are organizing a rally and RefuseFascism Chicago contingent on Saturday, Jan 20, 2018, for the Women’s March 2018. This will include a Handmaid’s Tale contingent so email us at chicago@refusefascism.org to reserve your costume or let us know you’re bringing your own!

Bring the Noise, Break the Silence, The Trump/Pence Regime Must GO!

This week Trump announced his decision to end protections for 200,000 Salvadorans with Temporary Protective Status.

January 19th is another budget deadline for Congress, and another big opportunity to pass a Clean DREAM act.

Join us on January 17th at 5pm at Daley Plaza as we demand that Congress pass a Clean DREAM act NOW and protect the hundreds of thousands of immigrants living with TPS.