Look for new opportunities for action, education, community, and solidarity here every week.
Anti-ICE Protests. Contrary to what many say and believe, ICE “special enforcement” activity has not gone away. Nearby Elgin found out Monday during an hours-long stand-off with community members including tussles in the snow and heavy use of tear gas. Only one person was confirmed as detained in the operation at an apartment complex. Daily protests continue at the Broadview receiving/detention center, in and around the Loop, and in communities across the region. Be aware of local alerts from the McHenry County Rapid Response Team on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/252228846373447.
AT&T/ICE Protest. ICE and Border Patrol are terrorizing our communities, and AT&T is profiting multimillion-dollar contracts with those agencies while they do so. We need to go on offense against the corporations profiting off of ICE’s work tearing apart our families and communities. We need to make it more costly for AT&T to keep working with these agencies than it is for them to drop the contract.
What the Public Can Do: Sign the petition and pledge not to buy or upgrade any AT&T products or plans this holiday season until AT&T drops these contracts and pledges not to sign new ones. Visit https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/att. Sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Action Network of IllInois (UUANI) and its allies.
National Alliance to End Homelessness Petition. The United States policy on homelessness just changed. It is bad. Really bad. It will absolutely cause homelessness (especially street homelessness) to skyrocket in 1-2 years. (Federal policy changes take a couple years to be felt.) The basics:
Beginning in 2004, federal homelessness policy started being guided by research. The impact was clear and immediate. I can tell you from first-hand knowledge, everything changed for the better! HUD just released a new funding plan that reverts to the failed policies of the 1990’s. There is still a little time to fix this before it goes into effect. (Not much, but a little).
The National Alliance to End Homelessness made it easy. It only takes two minutes. Go here: https://endhomelessness.org/action/stophudnofo/
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