In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together

"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.

Resisting ICE, Building Worlds: Care and Survival in Fascistic Times

“It’s all hands on deck and we have to fight. This is the only way,” says Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.

We Have to Move

"There are living, breathing people all around you who need your sense of decency to be made material. Don’t give up on them, or on you."

Making Things Together: Zines, Strategy, and Survival

“We're going to need a lot more in-person opportunities for us to expand our humanity,” says organizer Mariame Kaba.

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding. 

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

Must-Reads and the War on Chicago

"Chicagoans will not be a conquered people."

Holding the Line Through Tear Gas and Censorship

“There is no neutral ground in this moment. You’re either resisting or you’re complicit,” says Eman Abdelhadi.

Fighting for Our Stolen Neighbors: ICE, Tear Gas and a Guitar Blown Open

"Being out here to demand what is right is the only way to stay human," says Jessica Darrow.

Must-Reads and Some Thoughts on Care and Courage Amid Clouds of Tear Gas

We can embody our refusal and fiercely declare that our love and empathy will not be destroyed.

Raids, Retaliation, and Radical Solidarity in Chicago

“History shows us that repression always breeds resistance,” says Chicago organizer Miguel Alvelo Rivera.

Must-Reads and Some Thoughts About Who Gets to Think and Feel in Public

"It is unconscionable that trans people are being targeted for their irreverent responses to the death of a man who actively called for violence against the trans community."