In June 2010, a group of undocumented youth and other organizers came together around a shared desire to open an alternative political space within the immigrant rights movement. We shared a sense that the political horizon of the movement felt constricted, and that liberal organizing models felt unwelcoming and shortsighted. Working together throughout fall and winter, and into the early months of 2011, we saw that our analysis had been limited by always thinking about a system within a system within a system, and proposing Band-Aid solutions that did not address root causes nor offer a broader political vision. We wanted to work in a different way; we wanted to generate a radically different vision of the future that could inspire us. We engaged in an extended experiment in organizing, connecting people around a common idea: immigration is not the problem, and therefore immigration legislation or reform is not the ultimate political horizon of a social justice movement from the undocumented perspective.
What we mean by “undocumented perspective” developed slowly and is still a work in progress. Certainly we mean the perspective, experiences and knowledges of people who are themselves undocumented; but we also mean a political commitment to understanding how the system of global power pushes entire populations “outside” the privileges of citizenship. We consider “undocumented” to express not an identity politics or a special interest-group, by rather a political framework for challenging citizenship as an instrument for criminalizing people and making them exploitable. We reached out to others and tried to form alliances with small, autonomous and grass-roots groups committed to confronting a global economic system that finds profit in the incarceration, displacement, and repression of millions across the globe.
We began our work together in the Mora-torium on Deportations Campaign, which we saw as a meeting place, a space for gathering and dialogue. We went on to organize a series of workshops and speak-outs called the ABC’s of Struggle. We reached out to other organizations and individuals and explored the intersections of various struggles and political issues (such as education, housing, militarization, incarceration, and immigration). We instigated creative expression to inform our political analysis. Within our meetings, we openly discussed questions of privilege and power, the problems with liberal organizing models and the possibilities for collectively building an identity based on politics instead of a politics based on identity. In the spring of 2011 we organized actions for March 10, and then instigated the pubic organizing process for the Chicago Mayday March with other small, grassroots organizations.
On March 10, 2011 we decided to express our analysis of militarization as one of the root causes of the displacement of millions around the world and the illegalization of immigrants here in the US. We wanted to address militarization as a new form of colonization —it is racialized, it is a form of legalized economic exploitation, and it is an ideology that is pervasive in our culture. We gathered in Union Park and declared it a temporary Liberation Square. Next we marched downtown, stopping along the way for an action at the Boeing world headquarters. We staged a people’s trial of Boeing, and by extension of the broader military-industrial complex. Aside from the pre-scripted testimony, the call-and-response nature of the action helped to unleash a collective energy that engaged us all as active participants, not merely an audience for a political rally or speech. Unscripted chants and accusations broke out throughout the action, a sense of collectivity emerging from a shared expression of outrage, urgency and fierceness that was intensely mobilizing. After the trial, the verdicts and calls for restoration, the crowd broke out into a spontaneous street dance party. What follows is the transcript from the people’s trial of Boeing. ◊
Sidewalk CookOut-BBQ & Mingling! Carne Asada en la Acera & Encuentro
Posted: July 1, 2011 in Uncategorized
~Español Abajo~
YOU ARE INVITED!
JULY 2ND 2011 AT 5PM
*FREE Event-Cash Bar*
*View the exhibit “IN A STRANGE LAND”an exhibit in conjunction with AREA Issue #11, Im/Migrations.
*Meet some of the artists and writers for the next issue of AREA.
*Share music and transnational grilling traditions!
*Make your own flag and/or banner with organizers from the Moratorium on Deportations Campaign.
Facebook event page click HERE!
* Ver la exposición “EN TIERRA EXTRAÑA”, una exposición en conjunto con AREA edición# 11, Im/Migraciones.
* Conozca a algunos de los artistas y escritores para el próximo número de AREA.
* Comparte tu música y tradiciones transnacionales asando a la parrilla!
* Haga su propia bandera y/o pancarta con los organizadores de la Campaña Moratoria a las Deportaciones.Miembros y simpatizantes de la Campana a las Deportaciones (MDC) participarán en esta reunión informal y la discusión sobre el arte y Im/Migración. Vamos a invitar a la gente a hacer sus propios mensajes para un mundo más justo, y aportaremos nuestra perspectiva de la justicia social desde una perspectiva de los inmigrantes. Este evento es hacerca del arte, la cultura, la política, la comida y la union de los vecinos y compañer@s. Únete a nosotros!
Calles Y Sueños
1900 S Carpenter Ave
IN A STRANGE LAND,
an exhibit in conjunction with AREA Issue #11, Im/MigrationsSaturday, July 2nd, 5-9 PM
Calles Y Sueños
1900 S Carpenter Ave
View the exhibit, meet some of the artists and writers for the next issue of AREA. Share music and transnational grilling traditions! Make your own flag with organizers from the Moratorium on Deportations Campaign.
The event is FREE and open to the public; food is free and potluck style, we invite you to share something from your community’s cooking traditions. Cash bar for drinks.
Participating artists: Ben Thorp Brown, Anne Dodge, Bia Gayotto, Chiara Galimberti, Gretchen Haase and Jen Blair, Natna Hernandez, Ferestheh Toosi.
AREA Chicago supports the work of people and organizations building a socially just city. AREA actively gathers, produces, and shares knowledge about local culture and politics. Its newspaper, website, and events create relationships and sustain community through art, research, education, and activism. www.areachicago.org
La Casa de Arte y Cultura Calles y Sueños-Chicago is a collective of Chicago artists and cultural activists who work to provide an alternative arts space for exhibition, the performing arts, music, film and cultural workshops for the Latino community. As a Latino Internationalist collective, we work to sustain collaboration, dialogue, cultural exchange and connection of the diverse Latino community in Chicago to La Casa de Arte y Cultural-Calles y Sueños, Juchitan- Oaxaca, Mexico. We build bridges to our motherland to nurture a new creativity and understanding.
One Thousand and More Against CPD’s Chicago May Day March Citation
Posted: May 13, 2011 in UncategorizedCourt Hearing Date and Time: TBA
Chicago May Day March Organizing Committee and Supporters against the CPD’s May Day March Unjust & Unlawful Citation
moratoriumondeportaions@gmail.com
www.moratoriumondeportations.org or Facebook Page E-mail: moratoriumondeportations@gmail.com
¡Resistiendo a la represión policial por causa de la expresión política!
Comité Organizador de la Marcha del Primero de Mayo y partidarios se unen en contra de la injusta e ilegitima Citación que la policía municipal otorgó al grupo por haber marchado en la calle
Sin embargo, Michael se negó a dejarse intimidar por las amenazas de la policía y llamó la atención de la multitud restante, que de inmediato se reunió en apoyo. ¡La respuesta firme de todos los presentes afirma nuestra convicción de que debemos resistir a los intentos como estos para restringir nuestro derecho a la libertad de expresión, reunión y expresión política!El Comité Organizador de la Marcha del Primero de Mayo del 2011 te invita a revisar la cuenta de los hechos a continuación y a que te sumes a nuestra lucha por defender estos derechos.Oficiales del Departamento de la Policía de Chicago amenazaron con emitir una Citación a corte por haber realizado la marcha en la calle (Ashland Ave.) en violación de los términos del permiso, cual indicaba que la marcha iba a tener lugar en la acera. LaSección 10-8-330 del Código Municipal de Chicago afirma que el comandante de guardia tiene capacidad de modificar los términos del permiso durante el evento. El Comandante de guardia, Wayne M. Gulliford (Deputy Chief,) y los oficiales de policía dieron una clara luz verde para que la marcha se llevara a cabo en la calle, como está documentado en fotografías y videos tomados durante el evento y por la gente que fue testigo de la acción y órdenes del comandante.
Michael y el resto de manifestantes estaban seguros de que estas amenazas se estaban realizando en un antecedente falso, al cual la policía se retracto de lo dicho en ese instante en rostro de una confrontación pública. Sin embargo, esto no impidió que en voz baja emitieran la Citación a la persona quien había firmado y colaborado con el permiso de la marcha, Andy Thayer. El Comité Organizador de la Marcha toma esto como si fuera una citación escrita a cada uno de nosotros, a todas nuestras comunidades, a todas las personas que marcharon el primero de mayo y nos oponemos a ella.
moratoriumondeportaions@gmail.com
E-mail: moratoriumondeportations@gmail.com
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Workers’ Struggle Beyond Borders
March for Dignity, Justice and Legalization for all!
Solidarity Forever and For Everyone
2:00PM Reunion at Union Park, Corners of Lake St and Ashland
3:00PM March to Plaza Tenochtitlan in Pilsen begins.
4:00PM March Ends and Rally Starts at Plaza Tenochtitlan in Pilsen.
On May 1st millions of people around the world march to celebrate international solidarity among working people.
We march because the classic union anthem of “Solidarity Forever” must be expanded to every worker – documented and undocumented, waged and unwaged, those who labor and those who work in the home, students, the unemployed, in the US and around the world.
We march because the scapegoating and criminalization of immigrants is a crucial part of the overall attack on working people.We march because anti-immigrant legislation has created the conditions of modern-day slavery for migrant workers.We march because as long as one worker is deport-able, all workers are exploitable.
US corporate interests concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a few, while destabilizing economies and displacing working people at home and around the globe.
Together we must oppose the forces making us pay for a crisis we did not create.
Together we must stand against policies that limit workers’ collective political representation. Together we must fight for justice, fair wages, decent working conditions, basic dignity and full legal status for all working people. Solidarity forever must be for everyone!
Our demands:
- Stop all deportations NOW — we demand an immediate Moratorium on Deportations !
- Legalization and full status without conditions for undocumented immigrants NOW!
- An end to anti-immigrant legislation and the criminalization of immigrants!
- Labor rights, employment, and a living wage for all workers!
- Funding for health care, jobs and education, not for war and deportation!
To endorse the event, send an e-mail with your Contact Info and your Organization’s NAME, so it can be added to the endorsers list, to: MORATORIUMONDEPORTATIONS@GMAIL.COM
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MARCHA EL PRIMERO DE MAYO
La Lucha Obrera No Tiene Fronteras
Marchando por la Dignidad, Justicia y Legalización Para Todos
Solidaridad para Siempre y para Todos
2:00PM: Reunión en el Parque Union, Esquinas de las calles Lake y Ashland
3:00PM: La Marcha Comienza rumbo a a Plaza Tenochtitlan en Pilsen
4:00PM: La Marcha termina con una manifestación en la Plaza Tenochtitlán en Pilsen. (Esquinas de la calle 18 y la Blue Island)
El día primero de mayo millones de personas alrededor del mundo marchan para celebrar la solidaridad internacional entre los trabajadores.
Nosotros marchamos porque el himno clásico de los sindicatos “Solidaridad para siempre” tiene que ampliarse a todos los trabajadores – con documentos o sin documentos, con o sin salarios, a los que trabajan afuera y los que trabajan en el hogar, los estudiantes, los desempleados, en los EE.UU. y en todo el mundo .
Marchamos porque el chivo expiatorio y la criminalización de los inmigrantes es una parte crucial del ataque general contra los trabajadores.
Marchamos porque las legislaciones anti-inmigrante han creado las condiciones de la esclavitud de hoy en día para los trabajadores migrantes.
Marchamos porque mientras que un trabajador sea deportado, todos los trabajadores son explotables.
Los intereses corporativos de EE.UU. concentran la riqueza y el poder en manos de unos pocos al mismo tiempo que desestabilizan la economía y desplazan a la gente trabajadora del país y del mundo entero.
Juntos debemos oponernos a las fuerzas que nos hacen pagar por una crisis que no hemos creado.
Juntos debemos estar en contra de las pólizas que limitan la representación política colectiva de los trabajadores.
Juntos debemos luchar por la justicia, un salario justo, condiciones dignas de trabajo, la dignidad básica y el estatus legal y completo para todos los trabajadores.
¡La solidaridad para siempre debe ser para todos!
Nuestras demandas:
- ¡Detener las deportaciones AHORA – exigimos una inmediata moratoria a las deportaciones!
- ¡La legalización y el estatus completo sin condiciones para los inmigrantes indocumentados AHORA!
- ¡El fin de legislaciones anti-inmigrantes y de la criminalización de los inmigrantes!
- ¡Los derechos laborales, el empleo y un salario digno y justo para todos los trabajadores!
- ¡Los fondos para la atención de la salud, el empleo y la educación, y no para la guerra y la deportación!
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Immigrant Rights Activists’ Caravan to Indiana to Join Protests Against Anti-Immigrant Bill
Posted: March 31, 2011 in Uncategorized
Press AdvisoryFor Immediate Release
For Friday April 1st
What: Press Conference to invite Chicagoans to join the Immigrant’s Caravan to Indiana When: Friday April 1st at 10:30 AM.
Chicago IL, On Saturday April 2nd a caravan of pro-immigrant activists will depart from Chicago with a banner of support for protests against Indiana’s anti-immigrant bill proposal, SB590. The bill is similar to Arizona’s infamous SB1070, which legalized a state-wide crack-down on undocumented residents passed last year in Arizona. Communities in Indiana have called for mass regional mobilizations to voice opposition to such measures.
Action: Invitation to Chicagoans to join the Immigrant’s Caravan on Saturday April 2nd . The reunion and departure of the caravan will take place at 10:00 AM, in the heart of the immigrant neighborhood of Pilsen (S. Blue Island Avenue and W. 18th street). At the event community members can sign a symbolic “migra manta” banner that will deliver support for the undocumented residents of Indiana. The caravan will join a march in Hammond, Indiana scheduled to begin at 12:00 pm on Saturday and deliver a banner of support to the immigrant community. The caravan will also make connections between immigrant communities in Indiana and those in Chicago.
Background: The bill proposal in Indiana, SB590, is the most recent in a wave of anti-immigrant bills sweeping the legislatures of states including Texas, Georgia, Arizona, and even Illinois (HB1969). Most of these bills contain similar components which include the use of state and local law enforcement to stop anyone they “suspect” of being in the country without documents; punitive measures against businesses that hire undocumented workers; an English-only rule for all official government documents and meetings and barring sanctuary cities within their state.
“Undocumented workers have become the scapegoats for a political system unable to deal directly and honestly with the crises it has helped create” explains pro-immigrant activist Rozalinda Borcila. “….when the most vulnerable workers become more exploitable and disenfranchised, the race to the bottom intensifies, affecting us all”.
The call for solidarity goes beyond the immigrant community, as Mario Cardenas of the Moratorium on Deportations Campaign states: “We ask people to defend human rights in the United States. There is no sense in using tax-dollars to profile and detain hardworking people. These bills aim to create a society filled with racial tensions instead of addressing the real problem, a mass of people without rights.“
Jesus Guillen: 773-297-3019
Mario Cardenas: 630-639-2295
The March and Protest at Hammond Indiana is organize by the Northeast Churches of Indiana with the Title “LA GRAN MARCHA”. The time frame is from 12:00pm-4:00pm, starting at Bishop Noll Institute in Hammond Indiana and ending on 144th E. Indianapolis Blvd at St. Maria Church in East Chicago, Indiana.
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IMMIGRANT RIGHTS FEEDER MARCH CONTINGENT TO MARCH TO PROTEST “EIGHT YEARS OF WAR AND OCCUPATION”
JOIN IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ADVOCATES AND UNDOCUMENTED YOUTH AS THEY SAY NO TO MILITARIZATION AND AN END TO U.S WARS!!!
What: Immigrant Rights Feeder March against the Militarization of our people. Feeder march will head downtown for the March and Rally against US occupation of Iraq
When: Saturday, March 19th at 10:00am. Feeder march will start promptly at 11am heading to downtown where they will join the organized Rally and March on Michigan Ave and Congress Prkwy
Where: Biblioteca Popular, 1921 S. BlueIsland, in Pilsen neighborhood.
Why:
The American Government continues to take advantage of the desperation in our undocumented and immigrant community. We are being tricked by legislations that are worded with the illusory language of the military as an option.
Our current dire situation such as the chronic economic crisis in our communities, austerity measures that have allowed budget cuts to public services, broken down school systems, no jobs, and the persecution of our families through anti-immigrant laws only set the right conditions for legislations like the latest draft of the Dream Act to funnel thousands of undocumented youth to the hands of the military.
The cruel toll that these current wars have taken on thousands of dead and maimed soldiers and of Iraqi and Afghani people; the use of the military in our Southern Border, which push people to cross in places where their death can be guaranteed, makes the option of the military one that is neither neutral nor benevolent. We cannot accept any pathway to citizenship into this Country by continuing the occupation of other people’s land and the murder of other disenfranchised people around the world.
For this reason, as immigrants and as undocumented people, we stand against these wars and the militarization of more of our own and any other people in order to go perpetuate violence in the name of freedom and democracy for the profit of Corporations.
As it was recently stated by Undocumented Youth on the March 10th 2011 Mobilization for Immigrant Justice;
“We understand that immigrants are part of a global system that oppresses different communities on different levels, and that all those systematically oppressed are in a sense Undocumented. The Struggle cannot be merely a fight for “papers”. It is a fight against a system that makes more and more people illegitimate: it is a fight for justice beyond all borders”.
Immigrant Rights Feeder March Contingent Message:
“MONEY FOR JOBS AND EDUCATION NOT FOR WARS AND DEPORTATIONS”
Undocumented youth will speak up against the Militarization.
Information on Facebook:
Feeder March CLICK HERE!
Main Event (Protest/March/Rally) CLICK HERE!
10am: Reunion at Biblioteca Popular
11am: Feeder March Contingent Step off
12Noon: Arrived at Rally (Michigan Ave and Congress Prkway)
1pm: March Starts on Michigan Ave heading North
Event is schedule to end with a small rally at the end of the march by 3:30pm
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La comunidad de derechos pro-inmigrante participa en la Manifestación y Gran Marcha en contra de la guerra por medio de un contingente de marcha/caminata.
Únete al movimiento en favor de los derechos de los inmigrantes y a los jóvenes indocumentados en una caminata/marcha que se llevara a cabo como parte de la protesta y gran marcha principal que se organiza en el octavo aniversario de la invasión, ocupación y guerra de los estados unidos en contra de los Iraquíes, este sábado 19 de marzo del 2011.
¿Qué?: Una caminata/marcha del movimiento inmigrante en contra de la Militarización de nuestra gente rumbo al centro de la ciudad para un Mitin y Gran Marcha en contra de las ocupaciones estadounidenses en Iraq y el medio oeste
¿Cuándo?: Sábado, 19 de marzo alas 10:00am. El Contingente de marcha comenzara a las 11:00am rumbo al centro de la ciudad donde se reunirán con el resto de la manifestación prevista.
¿Dónde?: Biblioteca Popular, 1921 S. BlueIsland Ave, in Pilsen
¿Por qué marchamos?
El Gobierno estadounidense sigue tomando ventaja de la desesperación de nuestra comunidad inmigrante e indocumentada. Estamos siendo engañados por las legislaciones que se han formulado con el lenguaje iluso de las fuerzas armadas como una opción.
Actualmente nuestras situaciones difíciles como, la crisis económica que existe en nuestras comunidades, los recortes presupuestarios a los servicios públicos, el desglose del sistema escolar, la perdida de trabajos, y la persecución de nuestras familias a través de leyes anti-inmigrantes, sólo establecen las condiciones adecuadas para que legislaciones tal como la última propuesta de la Ley del Sueño conocida como “ Dream Act”, por sus siglas en inglés, ayude a canalizar a miles de nuestros jóvenes indocumentados a las manos de los militares y que sean usados como carne de cañón.
La cruel cifra de vidas inocentes que las guerras actuales se han tomado, sobrepasan los miles cuales incluyendo las muertes y mutilaciones de soldados, gente del pueblo iraquí y afgano, y de varias comunidades vecinas del medio oeste.
El uso de los militares en la frontera sur de los estados unidos, empuja a la gente a cruzar en lugares donde se puede garantizar su muerte. Esto hace que la opción de las fuerzas armadas no sea neutral ni benevolente. No podemos aceptar ninguna vía a la ciudadanía en este país por el simple hecho de continuar con las ocupaciones de tierras de otras personas y continuar con el asesinato de otras personas marginadas del mundo.
Por esta razón, como inmigrantes y personas indocumentadas que somos, estamos en contra de estas guerras estadounidenses, de la militarización de miles de los nuestros y de cualquier otra gente y pueblo, que solo son usadas con el fin de ir y perpetuar violencia en el nombre de la libertad y de la democracia para el beneficio de grandes empresas y destrucción de nuestras comunidades.
El Contingente de marcha/caminata pro-inmigrante lleva el mensaje de:
“No a la Militarización y fin a las guerras estadounidenses” “Dinero Si, para empleos y educación. Dinero No, para guerras ni deportaciones”
Jóvenes indocumentados hablaran en contra de la Militarización.
Información en Facebook
Contingente de Marcha pro-inmigrantes haz CLICK AQUI
Mitin y Gran Marcha en contra de la Guerra haz CLICK AQUI
10am: Reunion en Biblioteca Popular
11am: Comienzo del Contingente de Marcha rumbo al Centro
12pm: Llegar al Mitin y Marcha en el Centro de la Ciudad (calles Michigan y Congress)
1pm: Comienzo de la Gran Marcha sobre la Michigan rumbo al Norte
La Gran Marcha esta programada a terminar con un breve programa. El evento termina alas 3:30pm
Mass Mobilization for Immigrant justice!
-12pm: Reunion at Liberation Square, Union Park.
– 2pm: March to Daley Plaza & action at Boeing’s H-Qrtrs.
– 4pm: join Coming Out of the Shadows Rally with Immigrant Youth Justice League
– 5pm: March back and Celebration at Union Park “Liberation Square”
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The recent struggles for liberation in Tunisia and Egypt have ignited a combatant spirit all over the world. In the US, the struggle in Wisconsin is a new beginning. Public sector workers, youth, anti-war organizations and disability activists are uniting to address the multifaceted system of oppression that constructs borders between oppressed communities, keeping us divided. It is time to challenge the politics of scapegoating that conceals the root causes of the current social, political and economic crisis. As people committed to fighting for immigrant justice, we recognize we can no longer look to politicians and their liberal organizations for real change. We need a new vision and new concrete tools for struggle.
The ongoing criminalization of immigrants is part of a global economic system that finds profit in the incarceration, displacement, and repression of millions across the globe. Despite the solidarity that has blossomed among people who are recognized as citizens and those labeled undocumented, citizenship continues to be one of the main mechanisms for rendering people exploitable. It has been wielded as a ruthless tool for dividing us, forcing us to compete against each other in a global race to the bottom. Liberation Square is a call to “cross borders” between struggles, between divided communities and between forced political identities. Because in a system of laws that are stacked against us, we are all being made undocumented – from communities that are internally displaced to communities facing mass incarceration, from criminalized dissenters to AWOL soldiers. The struggle cannot be merely a fight for “papers”. It is a fight against a system that makes more and more people illegitimate: it is a fight for justice beyond all borders !!!
Join us at Liberation Square!! This is a community gathering and speak-out on the connections between immigrant rights, militarization and the global economic system. We will also march for an action at Boeing, one of the largest military contractors who has also made enormous profits from border militarization. In their never-ending hunger for profits, corporations like Boeing have been a major driving force behind increasing anti-immigrant hatred at home, and increasing wars abroad – because their profit margins depend on fueling the war machine and on making more and more people “illegal”. We will confront Boeing with our message: you are guilty of crimes against our humanity!
contact:
Carmela Garcia (847) 809 0611
Jesus Guillen (773)297 – 3019
Rozalinda Borcila (813)789-0123
For more detail information visit: http://moratoriumondeportations.org/
-An overview for March 10 2011-
What’s happening on March 10th 2011?
Mass Mobilization for Immigrant justice during an all day event on March 10. Actions troughout the day will be in the form of Gathering, March, Teach-Ins, Workshops, Rally, Protest and Celebration.
How is it going to work?
Actions for March 10 are being organized starting at 12 noon and ending at 6:00 pm with a possible celebration in the evening after 6:00PM.
12:00 Noon to 2:00 PM
(Reunion/diversity of small actions)
Starting Point: “Liberation Square” at Union Park (Corners of N. Ashland Ave and W. Washington Blvd) “Liberation Square”: A community gathering to share food, ideas and visions. This will be a space for teach-ins, workshops, sign-making and small creative actions, a place for different communities and struggles to come together.
2:00 PM (March Step off time)
People will assemble in the Park area between W. Washington Blvd and W. Warren Blvd.
2:15 PM – 3:00 PM
(March and Route)
1st Part of the Route: People will march on W. Washington Blvd heading EAST. Until arriving at Boeing Corporate Offices Located at 100 N. Riverside Plaza, corners of W. Washington Blvd and the Chicago River. An action at the Boeing Corporate Offices on the connections between the war economy and the deepening economic and political crisis is being organized.
3:15 PM -3:30 PM
(Resume March to Daley Plaza)
People will continue to march on W. Washington Blvd heading east to Daley Plaza, located on 118 N. Clark St for the Coming out of the Shadows Rally which is being lead by the Immigrant Youth Justice League and other youth organizations.
4:00 PM
(Coming Out of the Shadows: Undocumented. Unafraid. Unapologetic. Rally)
The Reunion for this rally is being call at 3:00 PM and program is schedule to start at 4:00 PM. Pending on community meetings, more details to come. Visit IYJL.org for updates on the Rally.
5:00 PM
(People’s March Resumes)
March will assemble subsequent of the Coming Out of the Shadows Rally at Daley Plaza. People will march back to “Liberation Square” at Union Park.
6:00 PM
(Arrive at Liberation Square and Celebration)
The People’s March will conclude at starting point, “Liberation Square” at Union Park with a big Celebration and gathering. More details to come after planning has been finalized.
***Not all timings can be confirmed at this time, some are pending community meetings and others can change due to actual conditions and circumstances on the day of March 10. ***
Updates on the different actions can be found at:
