All Are Welcome! ✨🎓 Join us for Celebración Latina, the first-ever ceremony at UChicago dedicated to honoring the achievements, culture, and contributions of Latino/e students! 💃🏽🎉 📅 Date: June 5, 2025 🕓 Time: 4:00 – 6:30 PM 📍 Location: Ida Noyes, 3rd Floor Theatre This is a celebration f... More
Please join us for a screening of the Aljazeera Fault Lines Series documentary, "The Night Won't End," followed by discussion. Please register at the URL below.... More
From Executive Producer Macklemore, The Encampments offers an urgent, intimate portrait of America’s student movement, ignited at Columbia University as students protested their universities’ ties to the war on Gaza. Their actions sparked a nationwide uprising, with encampments spreading across hund... More
Protesting the June 1984 massacre of Sikhs by India and continuing violence and discrimination.... More
A Procession for Peace The Elm Court Apartments behind the Chase banks in Bensenville, where almost all residents are Hispanic, have been terrorized by immigration officials with more than six visits from ICE. These agents have sown fear in mothers, children, and workers, and have targeted a grou... More
If your record is stopping you from getting employment or housing, we can help! The Westside Justice Center envisions communities where restorative, fair and equitable systems of justice are created for and by the people. Register by emailing us at [email protected] with the subjec... More
A screening of the award winning "Borderland / The Line Within" will be followed by a Know your Rights Training where you can learn tips and tricks to protect yourself and your community. 10-10:45am: Meet the Amnesty Local Group - participate in actions and get concessions! 10:45am-12:35pm: Bo... More
Hey Chicago! Join us Saturday, June 7th at Haymarket House for our Radical Used Book Fair! All proceeds go to supporting the 2025 Socialism Conference with the goal of expanding our Spanish language access. We'll have hundreds of radical books available—many in like-new condition, as well as ... More
Protest & march.... More
Learn About History of Masking & Interconnected Justice Struggles Get Involved in Campaign for the Protective Medical Equipment Freedom Act (PMEFA) Build Community & Practice Collective Care Chicagoland community! Join us for our first teach-in! The air we all breathe is crucial to our i... More
Join Pilsen Community Books as we welcome David Roediger and Zhandarka Kurti to the store for a discussion of Roediger's new book An Ordinary White: My Anti-Racist Education. Written by the author of the landmark book The Wages of Whiteness and one of the key figures in the critical study of race an... More
Join b as we welcome Brian Kwoba and Martha Biondi to the store for a discussion of Kwoba's new book Hubert HarrisonForbidden: Genius of Black Radicalism. The significance of Hubert Henry Harrison (1883–1927)—as a journalist, activist, and educator—lies in his innovation of radical solutions to ... More
Apps / Drinks / Music & Movement Building! We're throwing a party! Join us for "Everybody In! A Night for Universal Healthcare."This fundraising event will fuel great progress on our Chicago Resolution Campaign and efforts to protect Medicaid and Medicare! Tickets available at the link below. ... More
On June 14, Trump wants tanks and troops in the streets of DC and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his 79th birthday. But real power isn’t staged in DC and doesn’t cost millions of dollars when people are losing their jobs, benefits and rights. It rises up everywhere else. That’s why Indivisib... More
Don't miss your opportunity to join us for Power of Connection! Now more than ever, initiatives like our Economic Justice program are essential for growing economic opportunity and closing the racial wealth gap here in Chicago. Calling on all of our partners, our legal community, and our sup... More
Schedule: 10 am - 11:30 am -- Community service project delivering fans and water to seniors. 12 noon to 2 pm -- Community Celebration with food and activities for the entire family.... More
...State Treasurer Michael Frerichs Divest all Illinois tax dollars from occupation and genocide! TIME LISTED IS SIMPLY A PLACE-HOLDER - PLEASE STAY TUNED FOR SPECIFIC TIME.... More
Professionally lead bystander training.... More
WE NEED CBA NOW!! Obama Center? YES! Displacement? NO!! Come out SATURDAY, June 21st @ South Shore School for the 3rd ANNUALObama CBA (Community Benefits Agreement) SUMMIT, to push for a housing protections to prevent the and STOP the rapid displacement near the Obama Center. More info at sou... More
Join us for a powerful, community-led "Train the Trainer" session where you'll learn the key takeaways from the 2024 CPD Traffic Stop Report, gain tools to speak out in your own spaces, and help shift the narrative through data, testimony, and collective action. You'll leave with: * Talking po... More
Grassroots Struggles, Power, and Repression Under Gentrification. Join Pilsen Community Books as they welcome Augustus Wood and Camila Gavin to the store for a discussion of Wood's new book, "Class Warfare in Black Atlanta: Grassroots Struggles, Power, and Repression under Gentrification." Be... More
Join us for Storytime - Art activities & storytelling for kids of all ages. Mapping where we come from. Special guest: Jameeleh Shelo, mother and author of "Laith The Lion Goes to Palestine" Register at the link below for the address.... More
...in solidarity with Gaza & all oppressed peoples. Hate dystopian capitalism? Same. March with us Saturday, June 28th. MAKE PRIDE POLITICAL again this year!!! #StopTransGenocide #TransYouth #TransElders #TransPride #TransmascChicago #TransfemmeChicago #PrideWasARiot #TransCommunityChicago Mas... More
Please join Organized Communities Against Deportations (OCAD) and the Gay Liberation Network (GLN) in a joint Pride Parade contingent on Sunday, June 29th. Our aim is to highlight the intersectional solidarity that was at the core of the Stonewall Rebellion and grassroots activism in the years af... More
Join activists from around the country to discuss what's next for the movement for abortion access and reproductive justice. The anti-abortion movement is stepping up their attacks on abortion access, providers and people seeking care are being criminalized, and patients are dying from pregnancy ... More
A four-day gathering of the Left over the July 4th holiday weekend. The far right ascends around the globe amid war and wildfires. The coming period promises more and deeper crises, but also to ignite mass social movements with increasing frequency. Caught between fear and determination, work... More
Join Pilsen Community Books as we welcome Mikaela Loach to the store for an event in celebration of her new book It’s Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World. For too long, representations of climate action in the mainstream media have been white-washed, green-washed and diluted t... More
Join Pilsen Community Books as we welcome Pelle Dragsted, William Banks, and Matt McManus to the store for a discussion of Dragsted's new book, "Nordic Socialism: The Path Toward a Democratic Economy." In recent years, the Nordic countries have been the envy of the world for their economic succes... More
Pilsen Community Books welcomes Eileen Flanagan to the store for an event in celebration of her new book, "Common Ground: How the Crisis of the Earth is Saving Us from Our Illusion of Separation." As heat waves, wildfires, storms, and floods become ever more deadly, it has become apparent that w... More
Bring your family to the largest gathering for Palestine in the U.S. during Thanksgiving weekend in Chicago. Save The Date: November 27-29, 2025 at the Tinley Park Convention Center Our teams are working tirelessly to bring you yet another successful event featuring renowned speakers from arou... More