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This is a category for activists born, raised, or closely associated with Chicago. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Political advocacy groups in Chicago (17 P) Public Interest Research Groups (1 C, 28 P) S. ... European-American Unity and Rights Organization; F. Fair Labor Association;
Pro-Life Action League, a Chicago-based activist group founded in 1980 currently led by Eric Scheidler. [28] Secular Pro-Life (SPL), an all-volunteer organization which works both to end elective abortion and to incorporate non-religious people into the U.S. anti-abortion movement.
The Gay Liberation Network (GLN) is a multi-issue LGBT direct action organization based in Chicago, Illinois. The group was founded in September 1998, after Matthew Shepard was murdered and three gay bashings that took place in Boystown, Chicago. It was originally called the Chicago Anti-Bashing Network; the group changed its name in 2004 to ...
Thousands of activists are expected to converge on Chicago this week for the Democratic National Convention, hoping to call attention to abortion rights, economic injustice and the war in Gaza.
[10] The clinic's director, Dorthy Cutler, worked with Cook County Hospital and other major hospitals in the Chicago area to provide free medical care in the Chicago area. [25] The Chicago Brown Berets were activists for public education. The group occupied Frobel Middle School for a day before the Chicago Police removed the protestors from the ...
The Chicago Freedom Movement: Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the North. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 9780813166506. Garb, Margaret (2014). Freedom's Ballot: African American Political Struggles in Chicago from Abolition to the Great Migration. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226136066. Garrow, David J ...
Here's how pro-Palestinian protesters are planning their big march against U.S. support for Israel at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.