On April 15, Chicago police aggressively prevented marchers during the worldwide A15 day of action. Organizers say the repression was a message from the city ahead of the upcoming Democratic National Convention in August.
More than 100 ceasefire resolutions have passed throughout the United States. They might seem merely symbolic, but activists say they will have a lasting impact.
Activists shut down Woodward MPC manufacturing facility in Niles, Illinois, on Wednesday, February 7, to protest the company’s role in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Following months of large-scale protests, extensive outreach to alders, and organized efforts by Pro-Palestinian advocates, on January 31, Chicago became the largest U.S. City to pass a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Chicago alderpeople have tried to postpone a city council vote on a Gaza ceasefire by citing proximity to International Holocaust Remembrance Day and even the upcoming Democratic National Convention. A vote is finally scheduled for this week.
The Chicago City Council’s demonization of Palestinians set the stage for the murder of six-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume. We refuse to accept the grief of elected officials who would rather stand with our corpses than support our freedom.
Chicago continues to witness almost daily protests in solidarity with Palestine. This week, activists continued efforts to pressure Sen. Tammy Duckworth and a massive rally took over one of the city’s major thoroughfares.
5,000 people protested Joe Biden in Chicago on Thursday over his ongoing refusal to support a ceasefire in Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza.
Amid overwhelming U.S. political support for Israel, 25,000 people converged in Chicago last weekend to stand in solidarity with Palestine.
Rabbi Wendi Geffen, senior rabbi of one of Chicago’s leading Reform temples, says she does not invite pro-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions speakers to her temple because they support physical “violence,” equivalent to rightwingers who say Palestinians should die for opposing Israel. The issue is dividing her temple, Geffen acknowledges.