Fight Back! NewsUIC students demand sanctuary campus now
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https://fightbacknews.org/articles/uic-students-demand-sanctuary-campus-now
Protesting for Palestine is not a crime: New SDS at UIC statement in solidarity with Rick Toledo
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the New Students for a Democratic Society at the University of Illinois Chicago (New SDS at UIC).
Rick Toledo is a student activist and SDSer at Cal Poly State Humboldt who, for years, has been demanding that Cal Poly State Humboldt divest from the Israeli genocide and make the university a sanctuary campus!
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Commentary: The present crises and opportunities for radical change generated by the rogue policies of Donald Trump
Chicago, IL – Now more than ever it’s important for our movement to talk about what the Trump administration is doing and what we need to do to stop it. Right now, he doesn’t have the entire ruling class behind him, but right now he has the MAGA people of the Republican Party, which operates like a racist cult. The difference being that they have state power, and this is the difference that makes a difference.
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UIC students discuss women’s and LGBTQ liberation during Women’s History Month
Chicago, IL – On Monday, March 16, UIC students gathered in the Women’s Leadership and Resource Center to learn about and discuss women’s and LGBTQ liberation and socialism.
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UIC student townhall meeting to demand admin serve students, not Trump
Chicago, IL – On March 19, New Students for a Democratic Society (New SDS) held a campus town hall meeting to demand campus administrators increase funding for cultural centers, protect DEI, and declare a sanctuary campus. A crowd of around 50 students faced the three administrators who were seated next to a podium to hear students’ testimony.
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Chicago: Community gathers for town hall on police torture and wrongful convictions
By Grace Patino and Gabriel Miller
Chicago, IL- 50 survivors of wrongful convictions and police torture, family members and community packed into a small South Side church for a town hall meeting on police torture and wrongful conviction on the evening of March 21.
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Chicago opposes war with Iran on Al-Quds day
Chicago, IL – On Friday March 13, about 500 people gathered in front of the Israeli consulate in a protest led by People United Against Oppression (PUAO), US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN), Anti War Committee – Chicago (AWC) and many other organizations. This day is known as Al-Quds day within the Shia Muslim community and coincides with the last Friday of Ramadan.
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https://fightbacknews.org/articles/chicago-opposes-war-with-iran-on-al-quds-day
Hundreds of Chicagoans march for International Women's Day
Chicago, IL – On Sunday, March 8, hundreds of Chicagoans marched downtown from Daley Plaza to the Trump tower in support of International Women’s Day. Chicagoans gathered to protest against Trump’s attacks on women’s rights, reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights, the racist attacks by ICE, and the attacks on working-class and oppressed people.
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https://fightbacknews.org/articles/hundreds-of-chicagoans-march-for-international-womens-day
UIC students commemorate the legacy of the 2006 Mega Marches
By Sathvika Gowda and Ángel Naranjos
Chicago, IL – On Monday, March 9, members of Mexican Students de Aztlán (MeSA) at the University of Illinois at Chicago gathered in the Latin American and Latino Studies Conference Room in UIC’s University Hall to watch the documentary La Primavera de Immigrante (2006). This documentary screening kicked off the beginning of MeSA’s Sanctuary Campus Week of Action.
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https://fightbacknews.org/articles/uic-students-commemorate-the-legacy-of-the-2006-mega-marches
UIC students demand no war on Iran
Chicago, IL – On Monday, March 2, students rallied on the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) quad to condemn the attacks on the city of Tehran by the apartheid state of Israel and the United States. Students demanded no war on Iran.
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https://fightbacknews.org/articles/uic-students-demand-no-war-on-iran
