Edgewater Mutual Aid Network

Today, Chicago Park District workers used heavy equipment to evict unhoused people from Gompers Park on the Northwest Side.

While residents were given some opportunity to save belongings, all remaining tents and possessions were destroyed this morning.

Gompers Park Tent Removal Delayed As New Park District Leadership Takes Over Signs posted at the park said tents on the Foster Avenue side would be banned starting April 1, but city officials held off on clearing the tents at the last minute.

City officials abruptly delayed plans to clear tents from Gompers Park this week, nearly a month after the city held a rapid rehousing event at the encampment.

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Much of the food from our distribution comes from the Chicagoland Food Sovereignty Coalition. CFSC is a coalition of autonomous #mutualaid groups working to reimagine a resilient, sustainable, and equitable local food system based on food sovereignty.

We have implemented a random number system for the distribution line, which will be more equitable and reduce the need for neighbors to arrive early to the church. Numbers will be distributed at noon.

Our April Food Distros will be held April 5, 12, 19, & 26 at Edgewater Presbyterian Church on 1020 W. Bryn Mawr Avenue. We distribute free groceries, KN95 masks, COVID tests, toilet paper, laundry detergent, clothing and more every Saturday at 12:30 in the dining hall on the east side of the church. We distribute numbers for the distribution line starting at noon. Please mask at distro! We have free ones available. Much of the food from our distribution comes from the Chicagoland Food Sovereignty Coalition, a coalition of autonomous mutual aid groups working to reimagine a resilient, sustainable, and equitable local food systems based on food sovereignty.

Our free food and supplies distribution is every Saturday at 12:30pm, and takes place in the dining hall on the east side of Edgewater Presbyterian Church. We have groceries, KN95 masks, Covid tests, toilet paper, laundry detergent, clothing and more!

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This week, April 1, 2025, our neighbors need a ski mask, an iron & ironing board, women's size 10.5/11 house slippers.

Nearly every week, EMAN receives requests from our neighbors for items we may not have on hand — help us meet their needs! Email or text us to coordinate a pickup or drop-off. Please only donate items requested & in good repair!

We may publicly or privately make requests or demands of elected officials, as is everyone’s right as citizens and constituents. We may also do outreach work at public events organized by officeholders. Neither of these things constitutes a partnership, collaboration, or endorsement, and we refute any public statements by politicians describing our relationship as such.

‼️‼️ We refute any public statements by politicians describing our relationship as a partnership, collaboration, or endorsement!

Edgewater Mutual Aid Network is abolitionist. We oppose police, prisons, carceral systems, imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, and the state itself. We reject racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, classism, and ableism, and do not tolerate expressions of bigotry. We stand firmly against punishing people, holding power over people, stealing, lying, obstructing people. We work toward a better world where communities take care of each other with dignity, respect, and love.

Edgewater Mutual Aid Network is abolitionist!

We do not, nor have we ever, allowed elected officials, politicians, or police into our organizing conversations or meetings, and we do not invite them to our weekly food distribution or to any other events that we organize or sponsor.

We do not, nor have we ever, allowed elected officials, politicians, or police into our organizing conversations or meetings, and we do not invite them to our weekly food distribution or to any other events that we organize or sponsor.

We reject any expressions of gratitude from politicians for our work, and understand such statements as tacit admission of their own failures.

We reject any expressions of gratitude from politicians for our work, and understand such statements as tacit admission of their (and their parties'!) own failures.

Even if an elected official does something we agree with, Edgewater Mutual Aid Network will never partner with or endorse any candidate. Furthermore, protest of the actions of one politician does not constitute endorsement of any political rival. We do not compromise our values for political access, power, or influence.

We will never partner with or endorse any candidates. We do not compromise our values for political access, power, or influence.

Our work is inherently political but operates outside of the existing electoral system. We function independently from, and in opposition to, political parties, candidates, and officials. Mutual aid means building community to care for each other when government leaders fail to, and doing so in the shared understanding that we live in a failed political system.

Mutual aid means building community to care for each other when government leaders fail to, and doing so in the shared understanding that we live in a failed political system.

We may publicly or privately make requests or demands of elected officials, as is everyone’s right as citizens and constituents. We may also do outreach work at public events organized by officeholders. Neither of these things constitutes a partnership, collaboration, or endorsement, and we refute any public statements by politicians describing our relationship as such.

‼️‼️ We refute any public statements by politicians describing our relationship as a partnership, collaboration, or endorsement!

We commit to speaking out against any government action (or inaction) that harms our community members, regardless of the political affiliation of the decision-makers. We reject the binary framing of electoral politics, which politicians often use to weaponize marginalized communities against each other and to manufacture public consent for unjustifiable actions. As a network, we do not support Democrats or Republicans.

We commit to speaking out against any government action (or inaction) that harms our community members, regardless of the political affiliation of the decision-makers.

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As an abolitionist mutual aid network, we do not collaborate with elected officials or engage in electoral politics.