Look for new opportunities for action, education, community, and solidarity here every week.
Anti-ICE and Military Occupation Protests continue daily in Chicago, around the Great Lakes Naval Station from which ICE is deploying, and in suburban and collar county communities with high Latinx population sponsored by various organizations and coalitions. ICE enforcement activity is well under way and hundreds of victims have been snatched. Violent attacks on protestors at the Broadview ICE facilities escalated. A court enjoined the active deployment of the Texas National Guard and 300 Illinois troops citing no rebellion and the opposition of the Governor challenged in court. The Feds complied at the last possible moment to a court order to remove security fencing blocking municipal streets but new concrete barricades have been installed further isolating protestors and witnesses from the facility with enforcement by Illinois State Police and local officers. ICE and mystery masked “police” are increasingly aggressive use of force against protestors, neighborhoods, and bystanders. This week there were several brutal kidnappings and confrontations with local residents and the press. On Tuesday a large group defied a Court order to refrain from using tear gas, pepper spray, rubber or “non-lethal” ammunition, Tasers, flash bangs, and other excessive crowd control devices on peaceful protestors, by-standers, local residents, and first responders. There has been ICE activity in Elgin and other northwest burbs. So far limited kidnappings in McHenry County. Check out the McHenry County Rapid Response Team Facebook page for regular alerts.
No Kings Day the highly successful nation-wide protests sponsored nationally by 50501—50 protests, 50 states,1 movement, Indivisible, Move-on, and other organizations are back on this Saturday, October 18. The escalation of blatant suppression and threats of widespread deployment of Federal troops to a war American cities heighten the stakes. Organizers urge turnouts in the largest numbers yet in resistance and defiance. Massive marches are expected in Chicago and most major cities and state capitals. For more information and locations of all known actions visit. Indivisible McHenry County will host a roadside vigil at State Route 31 and McCullom Lake Road in McHenry from 11 am to 1 pm. IndivisibleNWIL has also scheduled an event roadside in Crystal Lake along Rt. 14 centered on 5650 Northwest Highway from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm.
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