An Online Guide to Chicago Area Protest Events
Teachers and families will be rallying outside the school at 5pm and then walk in together to demand a fair contract now
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Erika Harold is an anti-LGBTQ, anti-woman candidate for Illinois Attorney General - her views are out of touch with Illinois values.
As Erika and her supporters enter the City Club we want to welcome them with a 𝙍𝘼𝙄𝙉𝘽𝙊𝙒 of pro-women and pro-LGBTQ folks. Bring signs, wear a shirt of your favorite progressive organization (or any color of the rainbow) and help show Erika that hate is NOT an Illinois value.
Illinois needs an Attorney General who understands that our laws should support the health and well-being of all of us. At a time when human rights and freedoms are under attack, we must elect an Attorney General who will lead the fight to protect our rights.
Join us for our next public action to bring awareness to the deportations at Gary-Chicago International Airport. Know your rights information will be available. More to come.
Join 48th Ward and Carol Ronen 9th CD Democratic Committeewomanon Monday October 29th to meet JB Pritzker and hear about his agenda to move our state forward. Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky will be there along with many special guests including Congressman Mike Quigley
This event is hosted by;
43rd Ward Alderman - Michelle Smith
43rd Ward Committeeman - Lucy Moog
44th Ward Alderman & Committeeman Tom Tunney
46th Alderman - James Cappleman
46th Ward Committeeman - Sean Tenner
47th Ward Alderman - Ameya Pawar
47th Ward Committeeman - Paul Rosenfeld
48th Ward Alderman - Harry Osterman
48th Ward Committeewoman - Carol Ronen
49th Ward Alderman & Committeeman - Joe Mooe
Evanston Committeeman - Eamon Kelly
State Senators - John Cullerton & Heather Steans
State Representatives:
- Sara Feigenholtz
- Ann Williams
- Greg Harris
- Kelly Cassidy
Cook County Commissioners
-Bridget Gainer & Larry Suffredin
March For Our Lives Chicago will be hosting a rally on Saturday, November 3 to emphasize the importance of voting.
Voting is our voice. Voting is how we make change. Voting is how we elect politicians into office who will make that change. Voting is part of being in a democracy.
If we don’t vote, we will continue to have politicians who do not take action after days like February 14(the Marjory Stoneman Douglas School Shooting in Parkland, Florida). We will continue to have weekends where over 60 people are shot in Chicago. We will continue to lose our friends, families, and fellow Americans to gun violence.
So, stand with us. Fight for change. There is one way to make sure politicians listen to us, and that is to vote. If we do not like what they are doing(or not doing) in office, we can VOTE THEM OUT. Voting is how we show them that WE have the power. They work for us.
So grab a friend, make a poster, and make your voice heard on November 3rd because voting is how we save lives.
On October 29, 2018, Reed will be granted a new evidentary hearing. The Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression calls on all people to join with Gerald Reed’s large family and community of friends to pack the court room and demand his immediate release. Join us on the 29th at 1PM at the Cook County Criminal Courthouse (26th and California), room 604 to free Gerald Reed!
On October 3, 1990, Gerald Reed, 27, was arrested and questioned about a double murder by Detectives Michael Kill and Victor Breska at Area 3 Homicide, members of the notorious “Midnight Crew” of torturer Jon Burge. They beat him and kicked him repeatedly, and broke a metal rod that was in his right thigh along with the surgical screws that held it in place, causing him excruciating pain. The rod had been surgically placed years before to repair his thigh-bone, which had been shattered by a gunshot.
Reed signed a false confession to end the beatings, but that did not stop the torture. For 27 years, Reed has been incarcerated for a crime he did not commit and the extensive damage to his leg has not been properly taken care of. Learn more about his case by visiting caarpr.org/freegeraldreed
It’s after the midterm elections. It’s after November 7th. Guess what? Refugee families are still locked up in concentration camps without trial. The Trump/Pence regime are expanding the separation of children from their families. The Muslim ban is still in effect. Environmental destruction is still being accelerated. Brett Kavanaugh is now in the Supreme Court with multiple cases related to abortion that can reverse the advancements of women’s rights by 50 years. Best of all, Brett Kavanaugh believes in exempting the Executive Branch (which includes the President) from any criminal investigation. Blue Wave or not, this fascist Trump/Pence regime is persistently moving forward. We must be just much more persistent.
Let’s keep up the momentum in driving out the Trump/Pence regime out of office. Join us on Saturday, November 10th. The normal process of elections did not drive off the Trump/Pence regime. The Trump/Pence regime is persistent in staying in power, we need to be more persistent in a mass protest to drive them out.
The South Korea, Slovakia, and Armenia movements drove out their leaders through mass protest. SO CAN WE!!!
The difference between us and those countries is that humanity is at stake. The Trump/Pence regime’s destruction on this planet is on our shoulders to stop. Those kids who have been ripped from the arms of their parents rely on us to drive out this regime so they can have some sense of justice. Those refugee families that are locked in concentration camps without trial are in abusive and oppressive situations. They are relying on us to be freed and to find a life where they can live like human beings. The Muslim families that are separated from their loved ones because of the ban are relying on us. US citizens in Puerto Rico are relying on us to drive out the Trump/Pence regime so their island can get the proper rehabilitation it deserves and not be exploited by bitcoin vultures due to their desperation. Future generations of women are relying on us so they can have a right to choose what to do with their bodies and not be forced into back alley abortions that would play Russian roulette with their lives.
It is not a request from Refuse Fascism to join us on November 10th, but your duty if you truly care for all of the humanity that has been mentioned.
Read the Call to Action:
https://refusefascism.org/2018/10/07/wed-nov-7-sat-nov-10-be-in-the-streets-in-the-name-of-humanity-the-trump-pence-regime-must-go/
On Monday, October 15th, Chicago Student Action will join college students across the country in a National Day of Action, demanding free public higher education as part of the #FreeCollege4All campaign.
Here in Chicago, we will be targeting three of the top players in student debt: Wells Fargo, Fannie May, and Bank of America.
We are protesting because our lives are in crisis. 44 million of us hold $1.5 trillion in student debt, and our universities are becoming increasingly beholden to corporate interests. By requiring the wealthy to pay their fair share by closing corporate tax loopholes, taxing high-volume financial transactions, and establishing estate taxes, the U.S. will have plenty of money to invest in education.
We are calling for a free public higher education policy that:
- meets the needs of ALL students, including those who are undocumented, formerly or presently incarcerated, or part-time
- abolishes and absolves student debt
- includes the cost of living and textbooks for low-income students
Join us on October 15th, as we bring the crisis to those who are creating it. We will meet at Bank of America in the West Loop (100 South Wacker Drive).
Police continue to brutalize and murder people, especially Black, Latino and Indigenous people. The system continues to almost always let brutal, murdering cops walk free. Now Donald Trump, and his keebler elf looking attorney general, Jeff Sessions, are saying ‘bring back Stop and Frisk’ and ‘courts should stop getting in the way of police trying to do their jobs,’ there will be more racial profiling and more police terror.
The conviction of the Chicago cop who murdered Laquan McDonald was a little taste of justice. But rivers of blood have been spilled by killer cops.
This must STOP, and it’s up to us to stop it. Laquan’s murderer got convicted because people took their refusal to put up with police getting away with murder into the streets; in Ferguson, in Baltimore, and all across the country, including in Chicago. Now is a time for those who have to live their lives under the guns and billy clubs of brutal, murdering cops to be joined by everybody who doesn’t want to live in a world where police get away with murder to join together to say: Police Terror Must STOP!
October 22 is the day to do this. It’s the National Day of Protest to STOP Police Brutality, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation. A day when those whose loved ones have been stolen from them by those sworn to protect and serve have a platform to speak of how the police have stolen the lives of their loved ones!; a day when others stand with them and call for this injustice to stop!
All out for October 22!
This call has been issued by:
Alice Howell, grandmother of Justus Howell, killed by police in Zion, Illinois, in 2015
Carl Dix, Revolutionary Communist Party, co-founder of Stop Mass Incarceration Network
Gloria Pinex, mother of Darius Pinex, killed by police in Chicago in 2011
Latoya Howell, mother of Justus Howell, killed by police in Zion, Illinois, in 2015
Panzy Edwards, mother of Dakota Bright, killed by police in Chicago, 2012
Veda Washington, Aunt of Alton Sterling, killed by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 2016
Lashundia Key, mother of Aquoness “Quono” Cathery, killed by police in Chicago in 2017
The conviction of Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke for the murder and aggravated battery against Laquan McDonald raises the question of changing the structure of policing in Chicago to a new level. The people of Chicago expect action by our civic leaders to correct a situation in which Black and Brown people are wantonly killed by police while seemingly countless homicides take place unsolved. Clearly, “reform” is on the agenda, and we need the members of the City Council need to take a stand.
On October 23, 2018, at 10:00 am on the 2nd Floor of City Hall, Alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35th) will join with other Aldermen and community organizations to announce that they will invoke City Council Rule 41 to bring this ordinance to the floor for a vote.
The people have spoken In hearings across the city – the Mayor’s Task Force on Police Accountability, the City Council Public Safety Committee, and the U. S. Department of Justice. The people want democratic community control of the police, such as that embodied in the pending ordinance establishing an all-elected Civilian Police Accountability Council (CPAC). In addition to the hearings, over 55,000 people have signed postcards to their aldermen demanding passage of this bill.