- 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
- Cook County Public Defender hotline (if you are arrested in Chicago or any other city or town in Cook County): 844-817-4448
- First Defense Legal Aid Hotline (to report police, federal law enforcement, or national guard misconduct): 800-529-7374
Poets For Chicago
Haymarket House, 800 W. Buena Ave, Chicago
April 3, 2026, 7 p.m.
A Night of Arts & Community Benefiting ICIRR! Join us for our second reading installment where all proceeds support the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights. This night will feature: 🎤 José Olivarez 🎤 Mayda del Valle 🎤 C. Russell Price 🎤 Juan Martinez 🎤 The Borderless Poets ... More
Chicago Weekend of Solidarity with the Prairieland Defendants
Varies
April 3, 2026, 7 p.m. - April 4, 2026, 5 p.m.
An ominous unjust and tragic conviction against those protesting at the Prairieland ICE Detention Center: as our collective freedoms are bound together in a fascist era of criminalization and dehumanization, we are compelled to take action on this day of international solidarity. The Prairieland ... More
Screaming Queens
Nabala Cafe, 4660 N. Broadway Ave, Chicago
April 3, 2026, 6:30 p.m.
🏳️⚧️ Celebrate Trans Day of Visibility with us by watching ‘Screaming Queens,’ a documentary about trans women fighting against police terror! 💪🏾 History shows us that collective action beats back oppression. So let’s study and get ready for the May 1 general strike!... More
Gathering With Movement
Pilsena Arts & Community House, 1637 W. 18th Street, Chicago
April 3, 2026, 6 p.m. - April 3, 2026, 8 p.m.
Femme and femme-identifying individuals are invited to gather in an intimate and private space — to use movement and drumming as medicine, to heal, to resist, and to stand together against the systems that have always tried to push us aside. Whether you move alone in your own world or with the gr... More
Purge Palatir From Palestine to ICE
Federal Plaza, corner of Adams & Dearborn Street, Chicago
April 3, 2026, noon
Join us on Good Friday, April 3. We’ll gather to learn, to sing in solidarity, and we’ll hold a vigil for the many lives taken too soon by Palantir’s violence against our communities and abroad. Palantir, is a multi-billion-dollar weapons company disguised as a software start-up. Its AI and surve... More
Sanctuary For All UIC Open Meeting
Arab American Cultural Center (BOB BSB) and via Zoom, University of Illinois at Chicago
April 3, 2026, 10:30 a.m. - April 3, 2026, noon
We’ll be focusing on two main things: launching our UIC Drop ICE petition and planning for our April 16 People’s University! As always, we’ll have treats from our favorite vendors for our in-person folks! We get through challenges by supporting each other and working together. Thank you all fo... More
Anjali Enjeti and Simona Supekar at Pilsen Community Books
Pilsen Community Books, 1531 W. 18th St, Chicago
April 2, 2026, 7 p.m. - April 2, 2026, 8 p.m.
Pilsen Community Books welcomes Anjali Enjeti and Simona Supekar to the store for an event in celebration of their new books Ballot and Stock Photo. About Stock Photo: Part memoir, part cultural criticism, Stock Photo mines the visual culture of stock photography, which is used in nearly every fa... More
Action Alert: Meeting With CPD Sup't Snelling
Thomas Kelly College Prep, 4136 S. California Ave, Chicago
April 2, 2026, 6:30 p.m.
This special meeting with Superintendent Larry Snelling will discuss CPD's current policies and practices related to interactions with ICE and CPB during federal immigration enforcement. Register to give public comment in person or on zoom at CCPSA.Chicago.Gov/Public-Meeting-Calendar... More
Breaking the ICE: Lessons from the Resistance in Minnesota
Co-Prosperity, 3219 S. Morgan St, Chicago
April 2, 2026, 6:30 p.m.
Activists from the Twin Cities will share how their anti-ICE movement drove out the feds. At Co-Prosperity! The Twin Cities‘ anti-ICE movement defeated Operation Metro Surge through organized, creative and tireless experimenting. As part of a national tour, activists from Minneapolis and St. Paul... More
Declassified With Restrictions - A FOIA 101 Workshop
Virtual
April 2, 2026, 6 p.m. - April 2, 2026, 7 p.m.
Join us next Thursday on zoom for a FOIA (Freedom Of Information Act) 101 workshop! who is this for: -people who haven’t written a foia before -people unsure if their foia’s are useful -people who want to get some tips and tricks to submitting FOIAs and dealing with the agencies involved Re... More
Community Reading Event Honoring Karen Lewis
4321 S. Cottage Grove, Chicago
April 2, 2026, 6 p.m.
We would be honored to have you and fellow CTU members in attendance as we uplift Karen Lewis’s impact and continue the work she championed. Please feel free to share this invitation with your network. Let me know if you have any questions—we hope to see you there.... More
The Butterfly Affect Across Land, Generations, and Time
Pilsen Arts & Community House, 1637 W. 18th St, Chicago
April 2, 2026, 6 p.m.
The Butterfly Effect: Across Land, Generations, and Time Exhibition at Pilsen Arts & Community House Opens on THURSDAY APRIL 2nd from 6pm-9pm. The exhibit runs through April 26th! The Butterfly Effect Project (BEP) seeks to illuminate universal threads of intention, survival, and evolution, revea... More
Building Toward May Day 2026
Virtual
April 2, 2026, 5 p.m.
We’re building toward May Day—and the work continues. Join CTU for our next curriculum training with classroom-ready resources connecting labor, social justice, and the fight our students are living through right now. 🔗 RSVP: [https://bit.ly/4boCjMN](http://https://bit.ly/4boCjMN) Let’s get... More
National May Day Curriculum Build
Virtual
April 2, 2026, 5 p.m.
Join us in teaching the truth about workers and our unions who have fought for our students and their communities in advance of a historic May 1st day of civic action in Chicago and across the country. Join at ctu.sh/maydayprep... More
Sisterhood Rising
3201 W North Ave, Chicago
April 2, 2026, 2 p.m. - April 2, 2026, 4 p.m.
We’re so excited to invite our community to the Sisterhood Rising Open House ♡ ✮ Sisterhood Rising is a circle for trans women, transfeminine people, and people who are questioning. This space is about building connection, sharing experiences, and supporting each other in community. The open... More
Art as Resistance
Northeastern Illinois University Campus, 5500 N St Louis Ave, Student Union Room 214, Chicago
April 2, 2026, 2 p.m. - April 2, 2026, 4 p.m.
Join us in making collages, buttons, protest posters, paintings & more! Food will be served. "The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible." - Toni Cade Babara... More
Habili! A Night For Lebanon
Roscoe's Tavern, 3356 N. Halsted, Chicago
April 1, 2026, 9 p.m.
Habibi, this one’s for the homeland ❤️🔥🇱🇧 A night of beauty, resistance, and community—where drag meets purpose and every performance gives back. Come through, show out, and stand with Lebanon. ✨ April 1st | 9PM ✨ Roscoe’s Tavern Because when we gather, we don’t just entertain—we uplift.... More
Chasing Freedom - Coming of Age at the End of Empire
Haymarket House, 800 W. Buena Ave, Chicago
April 1, 2026, 6:30 p.m. - April 1, 2026, 8 p.m.
Join author Simukai Chigudu in conversation with Barbara Sostaita and Adam Goodman about his new book, Chasing Freedom: Coming of Age at the End of Empire. Chasing Freedom is an exquisitely crafted memoir, sweeping from Zimbabwe to Oxford, that lays bare the violent, enduring legacy of coloniali... More
A History of Anti-Imperialist Organizing in the Belly of the Beast
Pilsen Community Books, 1531 W. 18th Street, Chicago
April 1, 2026, 6 p.m. - April 1, 2026, 8 p.m.
Join Chicago Dissenters and Buttons of the Left as we gather at Pilsen Community Books for a night of examining the history of anti-imperialist organizing in the belly of the beast. Buttons of the Left will be presenting a series of buttons and artifacts to both help us understand the social basis t... More
Black Women Reovlutionaries - Women, Race & Class
Chicago Liberation Center, 2712 W. Cermak Road, Chicago
April 1, 2026, 6 p.m. - April 1, 2026, 8:30 p.m.
Join our second popular education study of Angela Davis’ book ‘Women, Race and Class!’ We’ll be discussing the lives of Black women post-emancipation and the role they played in the Women’s Suffrage Movement. This is a three part study. This session will focus on chapters 5-10 of Davis’s book. Th... More