Hold public community forum for a safe and inclusive Lakeview Pride for everyone!
Join our petition to request a public community forum about making this year’s Pride celebration safe and inclusive for EVERYONE. We believe that only by working together we can build a more inclusive and dignified life for everyone in Lakeview.
Read more here or go to our petition page: bit.ly/lakeview4everyone
Treatment not trauma City Wide campaign is on!
Do you want accessible free mental health treatment and non-police crisis response 24×7 across the city of Chicago?
Sign on to our petition bit.ly/tntpetitions
See more on this page for the latest updates, meetings and events or jump right into action here: bit.ly/TNT-Action
Lakeview Urbanists Petitions and actions Alert!
Lakeview Urbanists created a petition in response to several newsworthy car crashes along Inner Lake Shore Drive last year, including three that injured or killed pedestrians at Addison and Inner LSD. We see this as an urgent public safety/health issue that the Chicago Department of Transportation must address immediately. See more Lakeview Urbanists actions here.
19th district police council meeting
One of the main responsibilities of the District Council is to hold monthly community meetings. These meetings include:
Updates from District Council Members on the work we’ve been doing.
19th Police District public safety updates.
Guest speakers from organizations across the 19th District working on issues impacting public safety like mental health response, community violence intervention, homelessness, and more.
A public comment period of up to 20 minutes, up to 2 minutes per speaker.
One Northside Organizing for Equality
Our friends and neighbors at One Northside have a number of important actions this months. You can see all of them here:
Join Forces with the QForce!
Q Force organizes LGBTQ+ and Allies from Chicago (and beyond) to embolden Democrats in a progressive direction.
Join the fight to restore respect for human rights under Illinois law
HB2723 - The Illinois Human Rights Advocacy Protection Act (anti-BDS repeal) had a subject matter hearing Thursday 4/30.
ILCHR coaltion members are now demanding a vote. Send a letter to your legislator NOW in support.
Sign the petitions in support of The BREATHE Act, which bans tear gas and chemical weapons.
Demand Tax Justice in Illinois
Four ILRA bills will be heard in committee this week!
SHOW YOUR SUPPORT by submitting witness slips by the time of the hearings and asking your members/bases to do the same to show support for our bills.
Referendum to expand the authority of the existing city-wide Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability
Why do we need to expand the authority of the existing city-wide Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability?
The referendum would give us a directly elected Commission with the power to:
hire and fire the superintendent
set the CPD budget
negotiate the contract with the Fraternal Order of Police
See details here.
Northside Budget Townhall with Mayor Brandon Johnson
Join our neighbors and Mayor Brandon Johnson for a North Side City Budget Report-Back meeting on March 5th at 6:00 PM at the Broadway United Methodist Church, 3338 N Broadway Ave., to learn about progressive coalition’s efforts to pass a progressive budget and what we can expect in this year’s approved budget.