48th Ward Neighbors for Justice

Illinois Coalition for Human Rights

Live outside our district and want your state senator to support repealing our state’s extremist pro-Israel law? Check out the Illinois Coalition for Human Rights for tools on how to get in touch with your representatives.

www.ilchr.org

We are grateful that our representative in the state senate took a stand against extremism and for the values that make Illinois great. We encourage all of our neighbors and friends to send his team a message thanking him for being on the right side of history.

www.senatormikesimmons.com/contact-us

Two weeks ago Senator Mike Simmons co-sponsored the Human Rights Advocacy Protection Act, legislation that would repeal our state’s anti-BDS law!

We urge all of our members, friends, and neighbors to contact their representative to ask them to support the repeal bill, and to follow the Illinois Coalition for Human Rights to find more ways to support it.

Two years after Israel’s invasion of the Gaza Strip, the vast majority of Illinoisans want our country’s relationship with Israel to change, and certainly do not want Springfield to signal unconditional support for the Israeli government’s policies.

The law is so extreme that it also applies to illegal settlements outside of Israel that exist solely to deny Palestinians a state of their own. Meanwhile, there is nothing to keep Illinois from investing in companies owned by American anti-Semites and Islamophobes like Elon Musk.

In 2015, Republican Governor Bruce Rauner signed a law that would force Illinois to divest public pension funds from any company that chose to boycott Israel because of their record of human rights violations.

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48th Ward Neighbors for Justice is proud to endorse the Human Rights Advocacy Protection Act, legislation that would repeal our state’s extremist pro-Israel law.

Join us this Saturday to hear from candidates running for Congress in our area!

Democrats are fed up with the unconditional support our country grants to the Israelis, particularly while they prohibit aid from being distributed in Gaza. We urge our members, neighbors, and friends to tell @durbin.senate.gov and @duckworth.senate.gov that they must support an arms embargo.

Today @sanders.senate.gov is introducing resolution to block arms transfers to Israel. Senate Joint Resolution 34 and 41 would prevent the sale of guns, bombs, and support systems that have let the Israeli government dispossess, disenfranchise, and kill Palestinians in the West Bank and in Gaza.

Yes! I Support Development on Broadway! The proposed Land Use Framework would allow for more affordable housing, more transit-oriented development, and more ecologically sustainable development along the Broadway corridor from Devon to Mont...

If you live in Edgewater sign the petition to support the Broadway rezoning for more housing and affordability in our neighborhood!

Opponents were outnumbered 2-1 during Plan Commission but are trying to intimidate their way to blocking housing for our neighbors.

sign.moveon.org/petitions/ye...

Yes! I Support Development on Broadway! The proposed Land Use Framework would allow for more affordable housing, more transit-oriented development, and more ecologically sustainable development along the Broadway corridor from Devon to Mont...

Hey do you want to make the worst people on the North Side really mad? And help ensure working class people can live on the far north side? And force YIMBY left?

Sign this @48thneighbors.bsky.social petition!
sign.moveon.org/petitions/ye...

Tomorrow our friends at One People’s Campaign are going to be doing a training on how to politically engage your neighbors. Join them at 5:30PM to hear more about their Neighborhood Captain program, and to talk about how to make our city stronger!

We’re thrilled that Mahmoud has been released. We’re disgusted that it took so long.

trans rights btw this isn't up for debate

We’ll bring the basics (burgers, dogs, veggie alternatives, basic sides, stuff to eat them with), you bring the extras (beverages for the cooler, sides to share, anything special you want to throw on the grill for yourself).

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This weekend we’ll be grilling out with neighbors and friends! Join us just south of Kathy Osterman Beach any time from 12-3 this Saturday, June 23rd, to celebrate our success during the Chicago Abortion Fundathon, debrief the No Kings protest, and gossip about upcoming elections.

Check out what my friends over at @48thneighbors.bsky.social made

Btws - want to show your opposition to the criminal Trump administration this Saturday, but can’t get to the main protest downtown because of mobility concerns or childcare obligations? Some neighbors are having an Edgewater-specific event that you can go to at the same time!

Need a protest buddy? We’ve got several members going in a group. DM us directly and we’ll get you in touch with the IPO crew.

Donald Trump wants a military parade? In this city he’ll have a protest instead.

This Saturday organizations like @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social will be rallying downtown from 12-2 to oppose this racist, criminal administration. We encourage all of our members, neighbors, and friends to attend.

A crowd of people holding Pride flags gathers outside a mural-covered building on a sunny day; some police officers and safety vests are visible among the attendees.

250 Edgewater (Chicago) residents and allies protected kids and parents participating in drag story hour this morning at @chicagopubliclibrary’s Edgewater Library.

Chicago aldermen and protesters clash with ICE outside office over detentions In another sign of escalating tension over President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, community organizers, protesters and several Chicago aldermen clashed with federal agents Wednesday.

"On Michigan Avenue on Wednesday, after ICE officials got into shiny black SUVs and trucks and drove away, Gerardo Perez, 23, stood outside the office with his family. His mother was taken, he said. They live in Rogers Park, and he has six siblings. She had been here for close to 40 years."

Free Gladis Yolanda Chavez Pineda – A Mother, Grandmother & Community Leader Detained by ICE We demand the immediate release of Gladis Yolanda Chavez Pineda (A 208-276-014), a long-time Chicago resident, loving mother and grandmother, and a dedicated community leader, who was unjustly detaine...

Please sign the petition to free Gladis, and be on the look out for future actions.

ocadchi.salsalabs.org/freegladis/i...

ICE has chosen to detain her for no reason other than it would be easy for them to do so, and they must release her.

And Gladis is not a unique case. This criminal agency is working on behalf of our criminal President to attack people who pose no risk to anybody just to get their numbers up.

Gladis was arrested during a routine check-in with the Intensive Supervision Appearance Program, which he has dutifully followed while pursuing asylum in the United States. She has no criminal record and is a danger to no one. She is gainfully employed and has close family here.

Yesterday masked cowards working for Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained Gladis Yolanda Chavez Pineda, a mother, grandmother, and organizer with @ocadchicago.bsky.social.

ocadchi.salsalabs.org/freegladis/i...

This means that the work the @chiabortionfund.bsky.social will be even more crucial.

We have raised over $6.5K for them during this year’s Fundathon. It ends today, and a donor is matching all contributions made before midnight. You can donate at the link below. fund.nnaf.org/give/t640722...