Rally at 1 pm - 3 pm, Saturday, April 13, in front of the British Consulate (625 N. Michigan Ave.) to demand No Extradition of Julian Assange to Fascist America! Exposing War Crimes is Not a Crime! Free Chelsea Manning!

The arrest of Julian Assange and his indictment by the US is a major attack on journalism, independent media, and whistle blowers. The U.S. is attempting to prosecute - and persecute - a foreign journalist for “aiding and abetting” “espionage” simply for publishing unauthorized disclosures of its own criminal war activities. And all of this is going forward now as part of escalating a fascist program that includes assaults on the media (“fake news”), dissent, science and truth itself.

NOW is the time to say publicly NO! We refuse to accept a fascist America, in the name of humanity and the planet!

Endorsed by:
Friends of Wikileaks Chicago

*Message us if your group would like to endorse*

We recommend Kevin Gosztola‘s piece from Shadowproof:
https://shadowproof.com/2019/04/11/justice-department-charges-julian-assange-with-computer-crime-but-alleges-conspiracy-to-abet-espionage/

#FreeGeraldReed THIS FRIDAY Friday April 12th, 2019

8:30am PROTEST & PRESS CONFERENCE,
outside Cook County CourtHouse 2650 S California Ave, Chicago IL

9:30am PACK THE COURTROOM RM 604

Upcoming protest for #FreeGeraldReed, we must stand in solidarity with Gerald Reed’s family to demand that Gerald Reed be released immediately!

In Dec 2018 Judge Gainer overturned Gerald’s false conviction, ruling he was tortured by police into false confession. 28 yrs in prison for crime he did not commit, Gerald fought 26 yrs to finally get surgery to partially fix the extensive damage caused by the police torture

Special Prosecutors Milan, & his cohorts at the private law firm ORouke & Moody, are denying Gerald his constitutional right to bail. Gerald has spent the last 4 months in Cook County Jail, he has since a suffered mild heart attack and desperately needs a second operation so he can at least hope to walk again. Over the past weekend he was taken by ambulance to Stroger Hospital, after a very severe attack of flu with an intense fever (most recent diagnosis), he was returned to CCJ on Monday, very weak but thankfully feeling a bit better.

Since Gerald’s was conviction overturned, there has been 7 hearings of useless delays, SP Milan spent weeks apparently appealing Gainer’s ruling to the Appellate court, he has since withdrawn this appeal. Meanwhile Gerald’s torture continues and his health deteriorates. Attend the protest to demand that this active pursuit of injustice end immediately, then pack the courtroom!

Freedom & Justice for Gerald Reed and all the torture survivors
#FreeEmAll #FreeGeraldReed

Join us between 9am-12 noon at City Hall for a day of action to STOP Rahm as he tries to give away $2 billion that should be going to our schools and communities!

8:30 AM - Gather at City Hall
9:00 AM- Press Conference, 2nd Floor
9:30 AM - Rally at City Council - Rahm’s Last Meeting and the Final Votes on Lincoln Yards

When educators are mistreated by the education system, students are mistreated as well.

This is why UIC undergraduate students are standing in solidarity with the GEO and fighting back: the quality of education depends on the well-being and fair treatment of educators.

Undergraduate students will be holding a rally with the GEO on Friday, April 5th at 12 p.m. outside at the quad. The American Spanish-speaking news network Univision will be present and reporting on the event.

Now that teachers assistants have walked out of the classroom, undergraduate students are losing out on their education. For this loss, undergraduates are demanding the administration to accommodate and make up for their educational needs during this conflict.

Standing up for graduate workers’ rights is fighting for a quality education that every student deserves! Come join us as we continue to raise our voices!

WHEN: Tax Day, Monday April 15th, start time 4:45pm
WHERE: the Loop (exact location TBD)

WHY: Illinois has a tax problem: 2/3rds of corporations don’t pay any corporate income tax, and we lose $1.3 billion every year to offshore tax havens.

On Tax Day, everyday people are paying their fair share, but big corporations AREN’T!

J.B. Pritzker and Illinois legislators need to ACT NOW to end offshore tax havens and reform other notorious corporate tax loopholes in this year’s budget - the progressive income tax will go a long way to solve Illinois’ problems, but our communities can’t wait until 2021 when that revenue would come in. Join us and SHOW UP!

Mike Pence is speaking at the Hyatt Regency in Rosemont Friday night at a conference of reactionary students (Turning Point USA), and Trump spoke in Grand Rapids, his first Nuremburg rally since the Mueller report was released. They are going full throttle on the offensive, demanding investigations of their critics, calling for resignations, and blacklisting by the media. All this while concentration camps are set up in public view under bridges in Texas, public opinion is being mobilized to take military action against Venezuela, and women’s rights to abortion and birth control are hanging by a thread. And they are rousing their base to press forward with their fascist agenda.

Turning Point is a reactionary “student” organization that has been organizing on campuses around the fascist agenda including “free speech” for fascists, which means shutting down anything progressive.

Join us in delivering message to Trump, Pence and Turning Point AND to all the people who hate what this regime is doing but have diverted, bamboozled, and stupefied people into waiting passively… Now Is the Time to Act!

The Trump/Pence Regime Is More Dangerous Than Ever. It Must Be Driven From Power By Sustained Mass Protest By the People.

Attorney General William Barr has until Tuesday, April 2, to send the full Mueller Report to Congress. That’s the deadline set this week by six House committee chairpersons, after which they will consider Barr to be noncompliant and will put the pressure of the law on him with a subpoena to #MakeItPublic. We will know by the following morning, Wednesday, whether he has met that deadline or is refusing to make it public.

If Barr misses the deadline to make the Mueller report public, shielding the Trump administration from public accountability, we will likely activate the Nobody Is Above the Law rapid-response network on Wednesday morning, calling for a national day of action the following day, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, at 5 p.m. local time.

Join us at the Daley Center Plaza on March 28th and demonstrate your commitment to eliminating the wage gap. Your presence matters. Hear from amazing and insightful speakers on the continuous efforts to promote equal pay in Chicago and around the nation.
Michelle Silverthorn, Keynote Speaker

Thank you to our generous sponsors:
AAUW Illinois, Inc.
Illinois Federation of Business Women (IFBW)
Professional Women’s Club of Chicago (PWCC)
The Wood Law Office, LLC

And Supporting Organizations
AAUW Chicago
AAUW Northwest Suburbs
AAUW Palos Orland Branch
AAUW Wheaton/Glen Ellyn
ABA Commission on Women in the Profession
Affinity Community Services
Alpha Kappa Alpha, Chi Omega Omega Chapter
Arise Chicago
Bellows Law Group
Blacks in Government
Black Women Lawyer’s Association
Cause the Effect
Chicago Area Women’s History Council
Chicago Bar Association YLS Women in the Law
Chicago Commission on Human Relations
Chicago Foundation for Women
Chicago NOW
Chicago Real Estate Women
Chicago Women in Trades
Chinese American Service League
Coalition of Labor Union Women
Cole Sadkin, LLC
Cook County Commission on Human Rights and Women’s Issues
Cook County Office of the President
Crux Creative
DePaul University Women’s Center
DyMynd LLC
Dominican University Domestic Abuse Stops Here
Equal Means Equal
ERA Illinois
Enterprising and Professional Women - USA
Federally Employed Women - Windy City
Golan Christie Taglia LLP
Healing to Action
Housing Choice Partners
Illinois Association of Hispanic State Employees
Illinois Department of Human Rights
Illinois Federation of Business Women’s Clubs
Illinois NOW
Illinois State Bar Association Standing Committee on Women and the Law
Indivisible Illinois
Imani Pearls Community Development Foundation
Jewish Women’s Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago
LULAC of Illinois
Lawyers’ Committee for Better Housing
League of Women Voters
Littler Mendelson
Love Speaks
The Momentum Group
Mujeres Latinas en Accion
National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum
National Council of Jewish Women, Illinois State Policy Advocacy Network
National Employment Lawyers Association, Illinois Chapter
NEIU Women’s and Gender Studies Program
North/Northwest Suburban NOW
Northwestern University School of Law, Women’s Leadership Coalition
Organizing for Action
Illinois Office of the Attorney General
Illinois Office of the Lt. Governor
Planned Parenthood of Illinois
Professional Women’s Club of Chicago
Restaurant Opportunities Center Chicago
Shriver Center
UN Women Chicago Metropolitan Chapter
US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
WeWill
Women Employed
Women’s Bar Association of Illinois (WBAI)
Women’s Business Development Center
Women’s Leadership and Mentoring Alliance
The Wood Law Office, LLC
Working Women History Project
YWCA Metropolitan Chicago

Stand in solidarity with UIC grad workers on strike for dignity and financial stability!

On Wednesday, March 20, we’ll hold a rally at UIC’s East Campus quad (between Student Center East and the Daley Library) to show the university administration that we won’t back down until we get a fair contract. We invite undergrads, faculty, union allies and community supporters to come show your support.

Speakers will include elected officials and activists from GEO, CTU, and other UIC unions!

A rally to bring attention to the other side of the opioid crisis…

When you the words “Opioid Crisis” you probably think about tragic deaths from addiction.

But there is another side of this crisis —— the inability of many chronic pain patients to access the medication they need to function.

We are rallying to bring attention to chronic pain patient neglect.