This Tuesday, May 21st at noon local time at statehouses, town squares, and courthouses across the nation, we will show up to speak out and fight back against this unconstitutional attempt to gut Roe and punish women. Together we say: Stop the bans.

Monday 5/20 at 730pm local time at statehouses, town squares, and courthouses across the nation, we will show up to speak out and fight back against this unconstitutional attempt to gut Roe and punish women. Together we say: Stop the bans. PS national protests are also happening Tuesday 5/21 at noon. Please search for an event and also join in if this time works for you. Do not park in the Submarine Express lot. Mount Prospect has several free lots nearby. Please keep signs as family friendly as possible.

If you can’t make it into Chicago for the rally, join Fox Valley Activists in protest to make our voices heard! Stand up for reproductive justice. Stop the bans.

Politicians in multiple states are passing laws that ban abortion at a point before most people even know they’re pregnant.

These politicians want the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade and let these bans go into effect ending safe, legal abortion in their states once and for all.

We won’t stand by while they take away our right to control our own bodies. Join us, bring your signs, bring your voices, bring your friends and neighbors.

Join us as we rally against conservative attacks on abortion rights and uplift a vision of reproductive justice that includes free abortion on demand for anyone who chooses to end a pregnancy. We will be sharing information and hearing from speakers who will help attendees plug into various aspects of the work ahead. There will be chanting, there will be singing, and most importantly, there will be solidarity. We hope to see you there!

Across the country, Roe is under attack. We are gathering in Federal Plaza to take a stand and declare that we won’t go back.

More details to follow.

Organizing Sponsors:
ACLU of Illinois
Indivisible Chicago
Men4Choice
Personal PAC
Planned Parenthood

Supporting Sponsors:
Indivisible Illinois
She Votes Illinois
Women’s March - Illinois

Please join us for the Disrupting Violence March (formerly called the “Unity for Peace March”) on Saturday, May 18th, 10 am - 2 pm at 5114 S. Elizabeth St, Precious Blood Ministry. We will hear from speakers, dance, have games for kids, and approximately 12-2p we will walk 2 miles through The Back of Yards/Englewood neighborhoods to disrupt the ongoing violence and raise up our communities in PEACE.
Sponsored by Mothers for Peace, Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation, with participants Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense, and the Illinois Gun Violence Prevention Coalition.

Join us on Tuesday, May 14 at the Cook County Board Room for a public hearing where community and experts on the gang database will present new information about its use and demand answers to questions the Sheriff’s department has not answered.

In February, members of the campaign to Erase the Cook County Gang Database passed an ordinance to prevent the Sheriff’s Department from using or creating any new gang database to criminalize communities. As part of the push from the campaign to hold the Sheriff accountable, the ordinance also set a mandatory public hearing into the use of gang database by the County’s sheriff department.

If you can’t make it to the hearing, you can use this link to provide written testimony ahead Tuesday:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/C78C86R

On Wednesday May 8th we will assemble on Columbus near Buckingham Fountain at 130pm. We will then do a downtown demonstration around 3pm.🚗🚘🚕🏛🌆

Chicago Rideshare Advocates will be rallying with Blackcar Drivers United and Cab Drivers United #InSolidarity with with groups across the nation:

Los Angeles (Rideshare Drivers United)
San Diego
San Francisco (Gig Workers Rising)
Philadelphia (Philadelphia Drivers Union)
DC
Minneapolis
Boston (Boston Independent Drivers Guild)

ALL CONFIRMED JOINING IN ON May 8TH!!!!

Different types of demonstrations will take place around the country! Striking, picketing, in car demonstrations at hubs, TNP lots and City Halls!

STAND UP WITH THE REST OF THE COUNTRY!!!!!!
REPRESENT CHICAGO!!!!!!!!!👊👊👊👊👊

Join as we push for a more fair, just, and safer rideshare system that works for everyone not just the corporate investors in Uber and Lyft. #DriversUnite#ShareTheFare#TransparencyNow #InSolidarity #StrikeUberLyft
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Join Moms United, Believers Bail Out, Black Lives Matter: Chicago, Brave Space AllianceChicago Books to Women in Prison, Chicago Community Bond Fund, Chicago Torture Justice Center, Chicago Volunteer Doulas, Chicago Workers’ Collaborative, Circles & Ciphers, CommunityCave Chicago, Liberation Library, Love & Protect, Prison and Neighborhood Arts Project, Support Ho(s)e/Justice for Alisha WalkerUptown People’s Law CenterWestside Justice Center, and more to hold vigil for incarcerated moms at Cook County Jail; Logan and Decatur women’s prisons, and in jails, prisons, and detention centers, shackled by electronic monitors, around the country. We’ll honor caregiving inside and across walls, though not all self-identify as moms.

We’ll meet on the grass median directly across from Division 5 of Cook County Jail with flowers for people visiting loved ones inside, performances, messages from moms inside, and a speaker line-up centering those who have been locked away from loved ones. We’ll share action steps and invitations to current freedom campaigns and other initiatives in solidarity with incarcerated caregivers.

We’ll collect toiletry donations* for people incarcerated at Logan prison (the largest designated women’s facility in IL) and we’ll share drop-off locations too. Thanks to the solidarity of generous supporters, we’ve collected significant quantities in previous years, so we strongly encourage folks to contact us if you or your workplace, etc plan to do a drive in solidarity: MomsUnitedChicago@gmail.com Thank you!!

The area is accessible in that there is a sidewalk to approach from and no elevation, but the grass can be difficult to maneuver if it rains.

To clarify, Moms United operates from a definition of moms that is based on caregiving in a broad sense and self-identification.

*Toiletries needed: shampoo, conditioner, soap (bar or liquid body soap), chapstick, pads, tampons, stick deodorant (no spray or powder). Full size best, but if you have travel sizes, those are very appreciated too!

The Trump administration is doubling down to ramp up detention and deportation, but we’re fighting back! Join us to push for legislative solutions that will disrupt detention in Illinois, stop police from acting as ICE agents, and increases access to resources for all.