- ICIRR (for immigration-related arrests and ICE sightings): 855-435-7693
- NLG Hotline (if you are arrested at a protest or for political activity): 872-465-4244
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Knitting For Mutual Aid
Nabala Cafe, 4660 N. Broadway Ave, Chicago
Feb. 20, 2026, 7 p.m.
Donations for 19th District Mutual Aid Migrant Support. Join us for a knitting night for migrant mutual aid on Friday, February 20th! Even if you don't knit, support the cafe and donate high needs items: underwear, sweatpants, long sleeved shirts, toothpaste, shampoo, and pads. Knitted/donated it... More
Rhythms of Liberation - Cumbia 101
Casa DuPage Workers Center, 311 S Naperville Rd Suite C, Wheaton, IL
Feb. 20, 2026, 6:30 p.m.
💃🏽Join us as we explore Cumbia’s African origins and roots in resistance. Following a discussion we’ll have a dance workshop! 💵 $10 suggested donation ✊🏾 Culture has always played in a role in not only defending our communities, but lighting the path towards liberation. It holds the memory of ... More
Resisting Trump's Billionaire Agenda
Virtual
Feb. 20, 2026, 6 p.m.
Join this incredible panel to learn more about how we build a stronger movement to defeat authoritarianism and build a better world for Black, brown and working class children everywhere. https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/m_hM0xAcQEi35Wdn2fEtHA#/registration... More
Liberation Flick - "The Killing Floor"
Chicago Liberation Center, 2712 W. Cermak Road, Chicago
Feb. 20, 2026, 6 p.m.
Join us for a screening of ‘The Killing Floor,’ which tells the story of Black sharecropper Frank Custer’s journey from Mississippi to Chicago, where he becomes a meatpacking worker and unionist. 🍼 Childcare provided on site. 🍕 Free food available for attendees. Based on historical research i... More
Understanding Bad Bunny
Goodspeed Hall, Fulton Recital Hall, University of Chicago, 1010 E. 59th St, Chicago
Feb. 20, 2026, noon - Feb. 20, 2026, 1:30 p.m.
A conversation with Jessica S. Baker, Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, and Danielle Roper. Please come join us to enjoy and learn more about Bad Bunny’s music. This event will feature three faculty from the Division of the Arts & Humanities who are experts on Afro-Caribbean music and performance, Puerto Rican ... More
Feeding Our Neighbors & Donate Warm Clothes
4600 S. Greenwood Ave, Chicago
Feb. 20, 2026, 8 a.m. - Feb. 20, 2026, 2 p.m.
Volunteer opportunity. Everyone welcome! Sign up at socialchange.site This event is made possible in partnership with Social Change, BLACC, AHF, Kenwood United Church of Christ, Co-Lab for Social Equity, Rights & Restoration Law Group, Chicago Housing Authority, The Springfield Project, State Sen... More
Fund Medicaid, Not Detention Centers!
Louis Pastuer Monument, near 1831 W Congress Pkwy, Chicago
Feb. 19, 2026, 8 p.m.
This Thursday Feb 19 at 8:00 pm at the Louis Pasteur monument healthcare unions and allies will be rallying to fund Medicaid, not ICE... More
Citizenship: Notes On an American Myth by Daisy Hernández
Women & Children First Bookstore, 5233 N. Clark St, Chicago
Feb. 19, 2026, 7 p.m. - Feb. 19, 2026, 8:30 p.m.
Women & Children First Bookstore hosts Daisy Hernández to celebrate the release of Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth. For this event, Daisy will be joined in conversation by Sarah Schulman. This event will be held at the bookstore and is free to attend, but will also act as a fundraiser for Mid... More
Yalla Parkour Film Screening
Location provided upon RSVP.
Feb. 19, 2026, 7 p.m.
Join Climbers for Palestine Chicago for a film screening of @yallaparkourfilm on Thursday Feb 19th, 7 pm in Chicago. We’ll be selling some merch, raffling off some prizes and will have tea and desserts. Please donate generously as 100% of proceeds raised will support the families of the Gazan athlet... More
The Spies Among Us
Haymarket House, 800 W. Buena Ave, Chicago
Feb. 19, 2026, 6 p.m. - Feb. 19, 2026, 9 p.m.
Haymarket Books is proud to present the next installment in our community film series: Films for a Changing World🎬Join us Thursday, February 19th for a screening of Jamie Coughlin Silverman and Gabriel Silverman’s 2025 documentary: The Spies Among Us. The film will be followed by a discussion led by... More
Beating Bovino - How Attorneys Secured a Victory in Bogus Murder for Hire Trial
Grace Place, 637 S. Dearborn St, Chicago
Feb. 19, 2026, 6 p.m.
In October, the U.S. Attorney charged Juan Espinoza Martinez with a bogus charge of offering a bounty to kill Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino. The government circulated false information that Mr. Espinoza Martinez was a Latin King gang member who was offering up to $10,000.00 for Bovino's mur... More
60 Years of Housing Activism: MLK Jr. & the Chicago Freedom Movement
University of Chicago, Ida Noyes Hall, Cloister Club, 1212 E. 59th St, Chicago
Feb. 19, 2026, 5:30 p.m.
It’s been exactly 60 years since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his family moved to the North Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago, with a sharp focus on a discriminatory and unaffordable housing crisis. A stellar panel of journalists, scholars, activists and stakeholders reflect on this legacy, and wh... More
Artist Talk with Yohance Lacour
Co-Prosperity, 3219 S. Morgan St, Chicago
Feb. 19, 2026, 5 p.m. - Feb. 19, 2026, 7 p.m.
Peabody Award & Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist. This year, we’re launching the Podcast Lab, a new program for advanced media artists ages 18-25. Led by Peabody Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Yohance Lacour (You Didn’t See Nothin), the Podcast Lab is a 6-month program in which fo... More
Lessons From Minnesota
Virtual
Feb. 19, 2026, 1 p.m.
We’re so inspired by the organized strength in Minnesota. From waging the first general strike in decades to building hyperlocal ICE defense networks, we can learn so much from the diversity of tactics that organizers in Minnesota are using to protect each other. It’s on us to take the Lessons from ... More
Martin Luther King, Jr. & the Chicago Freedom Movement
Ida Noyes Cloister Club, 1212 E. 59th St, Chicago
Feb. 19, 2026, 12:30 p.m. - Feb. 19, 2026, 1:30 p.m.
It’s been exactly 60 years since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his family moved to the North Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago, with a sharp focus on a discriminatory and unaffordable housing crisis. A stellar panel of journalists, scholars, activists and stakeholders reflect on this legacy and whe... More
Day of Remembrance Vigil
Broadview ICE Abduction Center, 1930 Beach Street, Broadview, IL
Feb. 19, 2026, noon
Each year on February 19th the Japanese American community reflects upon the consequences of Executive Order 9066 across our generations. Join JACL Chicago and Nikkei Uprising in solidarity with our neighbors detained and murdered. Never Again is Now! RSVP at http://bit/ly/ChicagoDORVigil2026... More
Marronage, Migration, and Black Resistance: A Conversation on Black Histories and Policy
University of Chicago, The Keller Center Sky Suite, 1307 E. 60th St, Chicago
Feb. 18, 2026, 6:30 p.m. - Feb. 18, 2026, 8:30 p.m.
This panel brings together Black Studies scholars whose work examines marronage*, slavery, and Black resistance across geographic, historical, and contemporary contexts. Drawing on archives from the 17th through 19th centuries in the United States and Caribbean, the panelists will explore histories ... More
Thea Riofrancos on Extraction
Haymarket House, 800 W. Buena Ave, Chicago
Feb. 18, 2026, 6:30 p.m.
Join Thea Riofrancos and activist-historian Gabriel Winant for a conversation on Riofrancos’s new book, Extraction. Co-sponsored by Haymarket House and Pilsen Community Books.... More
We Got Us: Our Health, Our Rights, Our Future
Edith Abbott Hall, 969 E. 60th St, Chicago
Feb. 18, 2026, 6:30 p.m. - Feb. 18, 2026, 8:30 p.m.
Join the University of Chicago's African American Alumni Committee of the Crown Family School Alumni Board as they explore the interconnected roles of health, justice, policy, politics, and community empowerment in shaping the health and well-being of historically marginalized and under-resourced co... More
Renee Good's Murder & Other Acts of Terror
CCSRPC Community Room, 5733 S. University Ave, Chicago
Feb. 18, 2026, 5 p.m. - Feb. 18, 2026, 6:30 p.m.
A discussion on Robin D.G. Kelley’s Essay on Renee Good’s Murder. Join us for an intimate pre-reading discussion in advance of our Annual Public Lecture featuring Robin D. G. Kelley. This session will center on Kelley’s powerful essay reflecting on the Minneapolis uprisings following the murder o... More