OUR BODIES OUR CHOICE: Protest FOR Trans Rights / Protest FOR Abortion Rights / & MORE!!!

Join a protest AGAINST the “Pro-Life Action League” when it comes to Chicago on June 24th!!

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June 24th is the one year anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that overturned the nationwide right to abortion.

But the attacks on abortion are a symptom of a larger problem: the drive by rightwing organizations, judges and politicians to control our own bodies. A tidal wave of legislation in state after state is attacking the rights of Trans people to get gender affirming healthcare and to participate in public life through sports, restroom access and more.

In April, the ACLU noted that there are at least 417 anti-LGBTQ bills in state legislatures outlawing everything from equal marriage rights for same sex couples to LGBTQ inclusive education in public schools. This spring, the Supreme Court is set to rule on a case, 303 Creative v. Elenis, that could overturn local laws guaranteeing equal access to public accommodations for LGBTQs.

Anti-abortion Texas judges are currently “reviewing” a right-wing organization’s legal case that aims to impose a nationwide ban on Mifepristone, one of two drugs used to perform medication-based abortions – 54% of the abortions currently performed in the United States. That case could be heading to the Supreme Court as early as this fall.

In LGBTQ Pride Month and on the one year anniversary of the overturn of Roe v. Wade, reproductive rights and LGBTQ liberation organizations are uniting with one voice to say: WE Must Control Our Bodies!

Please join us as we protest against the far right and celebrate the core spirit of the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion that rebirthed the LGBTQ movement: Only WE can free us!

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Co-sponsored by:
Chicago Abortion Fund
Chicago For Abortion Rights
Chicago National Organization for Women
Clinic Vest Project
Gay Liberation Network
Illinois Choice Action Team
Illinois National Organization for Women
Indivisible Evanston
Party for Socialism & Liberation
Peoria Illinois National Organization for Women
Reproductive Transparency Now
Stop Trans Genocide
(list in formation)

Link to FaceBook event.

In light of the recent drag bans and other anti-queer/trans legislation and violence, “It’s time to unite every queer & trans young person under the common goals of safety, autonomy, and joy.”

We demand that JP Morgan Chase cease using our deposits to finance climate change through its investment in the fossil fuel industry. Illinois Third Act members, our friends, and allies will gather at the JP Morgan Chase Bank Plaza in downtown Chicago at 11:00am on March 21, 2023 to make this point loud and clear. We must act now and act together to move the world in a more sustainable direction. Our lives, the lives of our children and our planet depend on it.

NO JUSTICE! NO PEACE! Come out this coming Monday to Federal Plaza at 6 PM to demand Justice for Tyre Nichols, Keenan Anderson, Manuel “Tortuguita” Teron, and all those murdered by police! Rain, snow, or shine, we will be out in the streets this coming Monday demanding JUSTICE, for these families and for our communities who refuse to continue to live under police tyranny. JOIN US! You can read the full statement from the National Alliance by going to bit.ly/justice4tyre

Action endorsed by:
Rainbow PUSH Coalition
Black Lives Matter Chicago
Southsiders Organizing for Unity and Liberation (SOUL)
U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN)
Arab American Action Network (AAAN)

Chicago4Iran is organizing a protest on Saturday, December 17, for the global day of action against the execution of protesters in lran.

We are taking action to help save the lives of protesters in lran before it is too late!

Date: Saturday Dec 17th
Time: 12pm
Starting location: Michigan and Van Buren

IMPORTANT/IMPORTANTE: American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be available.
Traducción al español disponible. Llegue antes de las 11:45 am para pedir prestados unos auriculares.

The outsized abortion rights victory in Kansas shows that if we mobilize, we win!

The electoral victories in Kansas and in recent special elections show the broad popular support for people to control their own bodies and reproductive decisions. Millions are demanding the freedom to assert our autonomy and build our families free of discrimination, criminalization, and barriers.

Here in Chicago, a broad group of organizations is organizing in solidarity with a National Day of Action to defend – and expand – our access to safe and legal abortion and other reproductive rights.

We dream of a future with protections beyond Roe, in which everyone – no matter who they are, where they are from, or how much money they make – can access free, affirming healthcare within resourced, supportive communities.

Decades of erosion of access to basic healthcare such as abortion care and the overturn of Roe v. Wade, show we cannot depend on politicians and the voting booth alone to preserve and expand our rights.

We must also be in the streets to make sure that politicians and the courts heed our demands, and to build power within our communities. We must take direct action to support people coming to Illinois to exercise their reproductive rights and support their efforts to restore those rights in their home states.

We must recognize that the attack on abortion rights is part of a broader attack on all of our rights – union rights, LGBTQ rights, racial justice, and the rights of working people to do more than fight for scraps and shoddy social services in the world’s wealthiest nation.

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Traducción al español disponible. Llegue antes de las 11:45 am para pedir prestados unos auriculares.
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JOIN US ON OCTOBER 8!
A list of co-sponsors is in formation. Current co-sponsors include:
AAUW Illinois, Inc.
AAUW Naperville-IL Area
AIDS Foundation Chicago
Chicago Abortion Fund
Chicago Area Progressives
Chicago Democratic Socialists of America
Chicago for Abortion Rights
Chicago National Organization for Women
Chicago South Side Birth Center
Chicago Teachers Union
Chicago Women Take Action (CWTA)
Chicagoland Disabled People of Color Coalition (DPOCC)
Courts Matter Illinois
Democratic Women of McDonough County IL
Equality Illinois
EverThrive IL
50th Ward Green Party
Freedom Road Socialist Organization-Chicago
Gay Liberation Network
Health and Medicine Policy Research Group (HMPRG)
Illinois Choice Action Team
Illinois Green Party
Illinois National Organization for Women
Illinois Single-Payer Coalition
Indivisible Chicago Alliance
Indivisible Evanston
Indivisible Illinois
Indivisible Oak Park Area
McHenry County Citizens for Choice
McHenry County National Organization for Women
Mujeres Latinas En Accion
NCJW-National Council of Jewish Women Chicago North Shore Section
National Council of Jewish Women South Cook Section
National Nurses United
Physicians for a National Health Program Illinois
Planned Parenthood Illinois Action
Racial Justice Coalition
Radical Women U.S.
Reproductive Transparency Now (RTN)
She Votes Illinois
Toby’s Fund for Reproductive Health Equity
We Are JANE.org
West Suburban IL Democratic Socialists of America
Will County National Organization for Women
Workers’ Voice
YWCA Metropolitan Chicago

Following an act of vandalism at our church we will use our public platform to align with all those struggling for reproductive justice. Come and join us for a stand out at the church following service on September 4th. People of all faiths and no religious tradition are welcome to raise their voices together. We are grateful that the Midwest Access Coalition will be joining us.

Join us on Monday August 1st at 6 PM to demand an end to the torture at Menard Prison. Our loved ones held at Menard have experienced harassment, mistreatment, neglect, abuse, repression, and, in the case of Michael Jefferson and many more, death at the hands of Menard staff and the Illinois Department of “Corrections” (IDOC). We are calling on IDOC Director Rob Jeffreys and Governor Pritzker to act NOW to address these conditions and bring our loved ones home!

Our demands are:
Transfer Michael Minnifield, Isaiah Brady, and Chaz Thrailkill out of Menard immediately!
Conduct an independent investigation into the conditions at Menard!
Pass the Isolated Confinement Restriction Act HB 3564 NOW!
Hold guards who have abused our loved ones accountable!
Shut Down Menard!

We ask all those who are able to come out and join us as we bring these demands forward in a demonstration. We need every person who can to join us in raising these demands, until Rob Jeffreys and JB Pritzker ACT to address the needs of our loved ones, and until this crisis has the attention it needs!

Having overturned Roe v. Wade by years of packing the Supreme Court, anti-abortion forces now aim to abolish abortion rights in every state.

On July 9th they will bring their crusade to Chicago’s Federal Plaza – they MUST be opposed!

Besides wanting to outlaw abortion nationwide, they are against reproductive rights in general – contraception, quality sex education, accessible childcare, the ability to raise children without crushing economic burdens. It’s no accident that anti-abortion states provide the worst levels of services to young parents and guardians and have the highest maternal mortality rates.

They want to abolish all LGBTQ rights and most stridently oppose the #blacklivesmatter movement and immigrant rights. In short, their anti-abortion agenda has nothing to do with promoting “life.”

Please join a protest AGAINST the anti-abortionists and their crusade to take away our rights!

Co-hosted by:
Chicago Democratic Socialists of America
Chicago For Abortion Rights
Chicago NOW
Gay Liberation Network
Men For Equity and Reproductive Justice
Party for Socialism and Liberation
Reproductive Transparency Now
Tzedek Chicago

Please note we are meeting across the street from the Federal Plaza!

Join us this Wednesday at 6 PM to demand justice for Jayland Walker, his family and his community.

Akron, Ohio police fired over 90 shots at Jayland Walker during a traffic stop, striking him more than 60 times. Most of these shots came while he was down, and Akron police handcuffed him while he lay lifeless on the ground. The video of this killing was recently released following a week of demonstrations in Akron, Ohio.

We are heeding the call of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, and joining with chapters across the country to demonstrate demanding justice in the case of this brutal lynching. Come out and join us!

We are demanding:
* Fire and Indict all officers involved in the shooting of Jayland Walker
* The DOJ launch an immediate investigation into the shooting of Jayland Walker
* Community Control of the Police Now!

The whole damn system is guilty as hell! Come out!