Fifty Years of Fred Hampton’s Rainbow Coalition
A look back on how multiracial Chicago-style coalition building has influenced organizing to this day
Never Can You Compensate Nobody for Their Life
The path to reparations and remembrance for Chicago’s police torture survivors
Dumping Dirty Industry
Across the South Side, neighborhood groups fight for environmental justice
Know Your Movements: The #EraseTheDatabase Campaign
The organizers working to reform and abolish the city’s gang database
West Garfield Park residents reject proposed police academy, organizers argue
#NoCopAcademy surveyed 500 Garfield Park residents for their new report
The Fight Over Chicago’s Largest Private Police Force
Organizers return to challenging the University of Chicago Police Department’s practices—this time with a more radical agenda
Bailing Believers Out
Organizers frame cash bond abolition as a Muslim issue
We Got Power, and We Got Love
The Chicago Torture Justice Center honors the mothers of police torture survivors
Witnesses to Slaughter
A group of activists fights animal cruelty one vigil at a time
Evans’s Bond Court Order Under Watch
With court watching and town halls, organizers continue to push criminal justice reform