South Shore Community Benefits Agreement Meeting
South Shore Library, 2505 E. 73rd Street, Chicago
May 15, 2025, 6 p.m. - May 15, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
The Obama Center is coming to our neighborhood! We are working to ensure that we can all stay here when it arrives. Come out to learn about the history of the campaign, progress on the ordinance, upcoming events and connect with fellow neighbors fighting to stop displacement. DISPLACEMENT IS BY D... More
Bouquets for Mothers of Resistance
Newton Park in Glen Ellyn, IL
May 11, 2025, 2 p.m. - May 11, 2025, 5 p.m.
Celebrate Mother’s Day by honoring the strength, sacrifice, and resilience of mothers facing oppression around the world. Bring your own set of flowers. Together, we will create bouquets for mothers of Palestine, Sudan, Congo, the Philippines, immigrants, refugees, and all mothers nurturing hope ... More
Resiliance & Remembrance
Richard J. Daley Plaza, Washington & Dearborn Streets, Chicago
May 10, 2025, 2 p.m. - May 10, 2025, 5 p.m.
The 4th Annual Palestine Flag Raising Ceremony at Daley Plaza. The flag will be raised to half staff. Join AMP Chicago with Al Hub for our 4th Annual Palestine Flag Raising Ceremony as we raise the flag in honor of all who’ve we’ve lost due to Israel’s occupation and genocide in Gaza and the ... More
Trans Summer Clothing Swap
Chicago Liberation Center, 2712 W Cermak Rd, Chicago
May 10, 2025, 1 p.m. - May 10, 2025, 5 p.m.
Chicago DSA Trans Summer Clothing Swap is happening on Saturday, May 10 from 1:00 PM to 4:00pm at the Chicago Liberation Center - 2712 W Cermak Rd, Chicago, IL 60608. This clothing swap will be an opportunity to use the clothes that don’t serve us anymore to help others build a wardrobe that fits wh... More
People's Agenda
First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, 6400 S. Kimbark Avenue, Chicago
May 10, 2025, 10 a.m.
Uniting to defend our rights and build the future. We are living in unprecedented times. Every day we are witnessing attacks on our communities, the expansion of war, and a deepening economic crisis. People across the country are standing up, organizing, and mobilizing. This is a growing move... More
Students All Out for Palestine
Israeli Consulate in Chicago, 500 W. Madison Street, Chicago
May 9, 2025, 4:30 p.m.
The student intifada is now! The Israeli Consulate has sent their genocidal representatives to our schools. This is a call for all students and community members to join us in a rally this Friday at the Israeli consulate to demand the end to the genocide, and the end to repression of the first am... More
Growing Up in Palestine
Oak Park Public Library, 835 Lake Street, Oak Park, IL (easily accessible via the Green Line)b
May 7, 2025, 7 p.m. - May 7, 2025, 8:30 p.m.
Please join Chicago Irish for Palestine and the Seraj Library Project next Wednesday, May 7th, from 7-8:30PM, at the Oak Park Public Library, for a very special and FREE education and cultural program: “Growing Up in Palestine”! Learn what it is like to grow up in the West Bank from pictures, storie... More
Love in a F*cked Up World
Haymarket House, 800 W. Buena, Chicago
May 7, 2025, 6:30 p.m.
Dean Spade in conversation with Eman Abdelhadi. Live stream is available... More
Reparations Won Teen Arts Council Showcase
Green Line Performing Arts, 329 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago
May 6, 2025, 6 p.m. - May 6, 2025, 8 p.m.
Since the fall of 2024, survivors Michelle Clopton, Stanley Howard, and Carl Williams have acted as local partners for the Arts + Public Life‘s Teen Arts Council to share their experiences as survivors and to support the young people with their culminating creative project. The Teen Arts Council is ... More
Community Party - #ReparationsWON 10th Anniversary
Walls Turned Sideways, 2717 W Madison St, Chicago
May 6, 2025, 6 p.m. - May 6, 2025, 9 p.m.
Celebrate the anniversary with us and our friends at Walls Turned Sideways, an art gallery, studio, & community space dedicated to artists and communities impacted by incarceration with a focus on collective liberation, healing, and abolition. We’ll have food, drinks, raffles, games, and more! The g... More
10 Years of Reparations Won
Ovation Chicago, 2324 W. Fulton Street, Chicago
May 6, 2025, 11 a.m. - May 6, 2025, 2 p.m.
Much of the momentum that supported the hard-fought battle for reparations in Chicago came from the rise of the movement for Black lives, which was thriving in 2015. Since then, we have experienced the rise of many barriers to radical change that are not necessarily new but have gained significant m... More
Connecting Threads: An Open Conversation on Marginalization & Machismo Within Organizing Spaces
University of Chicago, LGBTQ Lounge, Center for Identity + Inclusion, 5710 S. Woodlawn Ave, Chicago
May 5, 2025, 6:30 p.m. - May 5, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
Join the Gender & Sexuality Committee for an open conversation on personal experience and overarching themes of marginalization and machismo within organizing spaces. Who goes unrecognized and who takes credit and why? Come for raspados and stay for the conversation!... More
Youth Town Hall
Mosque Foundation, 7360 W. 93rd Street, Bridgeview, IL
May 4, 2025, 1:10 p.m.
Addressing how to support our student on campus amid increased anxiety, recent FBI raids, and visa revocations. Join us this Sunday, May 4th at 1:10 PM (post-Dhuhr) for a critical conversation on how to support our students and young adults during these challenging times. We’ll be addressing: ... More
Bus Tour - 10 Years of Reparations Won
Tour starts and ends at 5520 S. Martin Luther King Drive, Chicago
May 4, 2025, 11 a.m.
This bus tour will kick off and end at the Memorial’s future site in Washington Park and will take us to sites relevant to reparations history, Black history, and the history of Washington Park. The tour will be led by Chicago historian Dilla Thomas and hosted by Mahogany Tours. Dilla is a modern hi... More
Grand Jury Resistance Training
Casa De Cultura in the Pilsen neighborhood, 2057 W. 18th St, Chicago
May 3, 2025, 5:30 p.m. - May 3, 2025, 8:40 p.m.
With the Trump administration announcing plans to target pro-Palestine protesters and organizations under “terrorism” designations, it is critical that communities learn about what those tools look like in practice. Like everyone else, Lucy Parsons Labs is concerned with the growing repression and r... More
Celebrate May Day at Haymarket House
Haymarket House, 800 W. Buena Ave, Chicago
May 3, 2025, 3 p.m.
Chicago! Join us for an afternoon of camaraderie, delicious food (including vegetarian and vegan options), and refreshments as we celebrate May Day and the long tradition of resistance it represents. In this volatile moment we are more grateful than ever for our Haymarket House community.... More
End the Deportations Now!
Rose Park (formerly Belvidere Park) 412 S Lewis Ave, Waukegan, IL
May 3, 2025, 1:30 p.m.
In commemoration of May Day, also known as International Workers’ Day, we are going to be demonstrating for the rights of workers and immigrants here in Lake County! Trump and the billionaires are on a rampage against our rights, our workplaces, and our families. Deportation is being used as a we... More
Radical STEM Hangout
University of Chicago Main Quad, between S. Ellis & S. University, and between E. 57th & E. 59th, Chicago
May 3, 2025, noon - May 3, 2025, 3 p.m.
Calling all University of Chicago STEM alumni! Join us May 3rd on the main quad for a Radical Stem hangout. We reject the illusion that our work in STEM fields can be separated from its material impacts. If you're against powering apartheid, surveillance or the war machine, join us AFK! Meet u... More
Black and Brown Unity March
1501 W. Randolph St, Chicago
May 3, 2025, noon
Stop the Trump agenda.... More
Internationalist Law Center Fundraiser
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May 2, 2025, 6:30 p.m. - May 2, 2025, 8:30 p.m.
The Internationalist Law Center is holding a grassroots fundraiser in Chicago on May 2 to support its historic lawsuit against Palm Beach County’s 700 million dollar investment in Israel Bonds, a major source of funding for weapons used in the occupation of Palestine. This event is part of a seri... More