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.

Celebrate the power of working people on the South Side of Chicago!

This May Day, University workers and the broader community will march in unison to show solidarity with one another and all working people on the South Side. We will marshal at the corner of 59th and Ellis before marching together to send a message of unity and strength. The march will conclude with a rally at Levi Hall to demand fair bargaining, for workers at UChicago and beyond, and a voice in the decisions that impact all our lives.

Especially if you’re affiliated with an organization and are interested in attending, please tell us more here: http://bit.ly/MayDayUofC

Co-sponsored by:
• National Nurses United
• Graduate Students United (AFT-IFT-AAUP)
• Service Employees International Union, Local 1
• International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 743
• International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 134
• Bakery Confectionery Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Union
• Flood’s Hall
• Tenants United
• Chicago Jobs with Justice
• Greater Chicago Industrial Workers of the World

On March 15th, over 500 people marched and rallied with Chicago youth to put pressure on our politicians to take action to address climate change.

On May 3rd, we are striking again. We cannot lose any traction we have gained since the last strike. We need to make this strike bigger, lets shoot for a thousand people!

Students choosing to sacrifice their own education and miss school for a day gets people’s attention.

Meet at the southwest corner of Grant Park(or where the lolla main stage usually is) at 11AM on Friday, May 3rd. We will then march to Federal Plaza where a rally will be held featuring many speakers.

Join this fight. People of all ages are welcome, it is appropriate for little children too! We find that the youngest children who come make the biggest impact!

For more updates, follow our social medias @climatestrikeil!

Can’t make the event? Donate to our cause at https://www.gofundme.com/usyouthclimatestrike!

Thank you for your support, we will make a difference.

The Fraternal Order of Police is a racist organization that seeks to shield their members from accountability, stop all reforms to America’s racist criminal legal system and protect the pocketbooks of its membership.

The crime and violence in poor Black and brown communities are the direct result of slavery, Jim Crow and modern-day racist institutions.

We denounce racist policing and discriminatory incarceration practices, which are the wrong (and obviously racist) responses to crime and violence. We demand investment in Black and brown communities.

We hope you can join us in supporting the community as we honor victims of Chicago Violence on Good Friday- April 19th. We will be ending with a lunch at Christ Lutheran Church, 3253 W. Wilson Ave where there will be a chance for survivors, community members, & friends to mingle.

Everyone is welcomed to represent their loved one or organization. Feel free to bring any flyers, signs, pictures that you would like to share.

There will also be a shuttle service offered for anyone who needs a ride back to their vehicle after the event.