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Inspired by https://hexbear.net/post/1202527. Anybody want to go to a protest or bar or something next week? [this could be us](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/4chan-fa-meetup) -------- I could put together a signal chat or it could just be organized in cleartext here. Read the sidebar safety rules if you're concerned about doxxing and consider using a pseudonym irl: > It’s a good idea to make an alt for this comm. Do not reuse a username you have ever used anywhere else.
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/379328 > I've been to Canada and Europe and they're so much freer. I'd give the 2A rights if the cops disarmed. I may have lost those rights and nobody in my family worth $400 wants a firearm. I just see if I can buy one but don't wanna be an owner myself. My mom considered a 12 gauge for a minute but didn't want it > > ---------------- > > > > All while guns on the street cost half as much or less. The 2007 prices were ~$180 for a Glock 19 and like ~$120 for a shotgun that may be already sawed off. People dunno about the Chicago black market driving prices so far down. If you had AFOAF who was affiliated you night get in some trouble. We once went to a party I didn't know was at a park on enemigos turf. There was only one member who invited a couple girls and a couple guys to the park. 6 of us and only 3 guys vs at least a dozen Kings who were coked out and ready to fight. > > ------------------------ > > So they stole a whole bunch of Modelos. The SGD guy who invited us to this stupid park session told me that if I hadn't made that U-Turn those LKs would've chucked the beers at my car. Like 24 of em. It would be worse if it were guns. When I would look up the cost of long guns online, I was shocked at how expensive they were. Nowadays if people wanna protect their families they may turn to the black market out of necessity. > > ---------------- > > Also not all gang members are desperately poor. The majority of the time it's family ties. Even if it's not there's the cool factor. They get girls, money, action packed lifestyle. They've got stories for the tertiary graffiti crews from the area. So this draws us closer. Just belonging to the crew felt cool. Even if I'd get ragged for lack of skills. So then that gang set was at least 30 guys from 13-30. Heck out in Little Village the cops murdered a 13yo with his hands up and just trying to ditch a blaster. > > -------------- > > Plus the crews and gangs nesr me are cupcake compared to down therem > > ------------------ > > My mom is mixed Caribbean but I'm white as hell and I'm not from the hood or anything. Problem is that hoods and barrios end up in the same highschool. I was in a graffiti crew of over a dozen with only one MLD tagbanger and unlike that other guy, he made sure his beefs didn't include the rest of us. He'd leave the lunchroom. There were 9 active gangs at the school. The school was minorty white but obviously advantaged for us and asians. > > ------------------- > > When I took AP US history or English I was perceived as an A Student so a B+/A-/A, wasn't hard to get. When I'd go to my 2 Level Math and Science classes I would be perceived as a C student so it was tough to get a C+/B-. I was legitimately better at History and English which is why I was recommended by teachers. Still. Keep in mind that wirh weighted GPA an A in English is worth 5 points and my C+ in Math was worth 2.3. Rigged. > > --------------------- > > Friend of mine failed too many classes Jr and graduated after doing a second Jr year. It was cool to watch and he was my housemate that year because of potential homelessness. My mom also took in anorher friend but he was older and paid rent. Once people starting camping in the backyard she drew the line. Still I and the others were kicked out for too much alcohol and open drug dealing from me mostly but our bigger time dealer got robbed in the driveway. I had e enough money to live elsewhere until I ended up in the psych ward with bipolar > > -------------- > > > My friend went military then got a BA degree and more successful than me. I have a theory that poverty breeds ambition (part of the allure of gangs) as he needs to do it all himself. While I can be a middle class slacker with a mom who can help me financially and still does. >
It's not just parking meters. Rahm's admin made [a deal](https://www.chicago.gov/content/dam/city/depts/fin/supp_info/AssetLeaseAgreements/JCDecaux_Contract_06282002.pdf) to give JC Decaux control of the bus stops. The city pays for electricity and electric hookups, and JC Decaux installs and maintains the stops and gives the city part of the revenue from selling ads on the stops. That's why the stops are nicest in high-traffic areas, not because of some bs downtown beautification program but because JC Decaux installed only ones that it thinks would be profitable. So now CTA's maintenance of the old shelters is terrible. It's not as bad as the parking meters because it's only a 20 year contract, but still. Some stuff I read today https://www.wbez.org/stories/why-those-old-bus-shelters-are-still-around/e349b28f-db51-4c22-8133-92ff1f58d559 https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2020/10/12/21513156/jc-decaux-city-advertising-contracts-bus-shelters-cta-billboards-ohare-midway https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/ex/sustainablecitiescollective/ppps-provide-major-public-benefit-case-chicago-s-bus-shelters/226641/ ("public private partnerships" 🤢 🤢 )
I guess I could check out DSA or something, but it seems like around here, PSL does NOT have their shit together at all, and other groups are trot or CPUSA. Any other ones I should look into?
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Good luck to y’all up there. Don’t let me down, get to those polls :xi-vote:
Remember to vote
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> Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has lost her re-election bid and conceded defeat, becoming Chicago's first one-term mayor in 40 years. > Lightfoot conceded Chicago's mayoral race Tuesday evening, shortly before 9 p.m., after 89% of the precincts showed the mayor headed for a third-place finish with 16.4% of the vote. > "Obviously, we didn't win the election. But I stand here with my head held high and my heart full of thanks," Lightfoot told supporters. > Lightfoot, the first Black woman and the first openly gay person to serve as Chicago's mayor, came in third behind former Chicago Public Schools chief executive officer Paul Vallas who had 35.2% of the vote and Cook County Commissioner and Chicago Teachers Union organizer Brandon Johnson with 20.25%, as of Tuesday night. ...
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The ADL sucks, but :jesus-christ: :amerikkka: > Feb. 23 (UPI) -- The Chicago Police Department has warned Jewish communities in the city to be on alert after a neo-Nazi group advertised a "day of hate" on social media, reports said. > Police officials told Block Club Chicago, a local nonprofit news organization, that there are no known threats against any Chicago neighborhoods but that they are monitoring the situation. > Authorities did not name the neo-Nazi group but David Goldenberg, the Midwest regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, told the Chicago Sun-Times that the antisemitic group is based in eastern Iowa. > "@ADL is closely monitoring the nationwide extremist 'Day of Hate' campaign planned for this Saturday," Jonathan Greenblatt, the chief executive of ADL, said on Twitter. > "The Jewish community may be the target of vile antisemitic hate, but we will not be intimidated. Instead, let's celebrate #ShabbatOfPeaceNotHate." > The hate group had reportedly encouraged supporters to vandalize property and put up stickers around the city, Block Club Chicago reported citing an alert from the 24th Police District. > Hate crimes reached an 11-year high in 2022 with 38 of the 202 total reported hate crimes against Jewish people, police data obtained by the Sun-Times shows.
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> The police murder of Fred Hampton in Chicago in 1969 helped launch a movement more than 50 years ago for accountability. In a culmination of this campaign, Chicago voters next Tuesday will elect 22 local police councils tasked with community control of the police. Seven members of the councils will be part of a Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability, a new model of police oversight. We speak with Frank Chapman, longtime activist and field organizer with the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, about the initiative and how it aims to empower Black and Brown working-class civilians.
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> Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says the city is taking steps to remove homeless people who have been sleeping in O'Hare International Airport, calling their presence a risk to security. > Lightfoot on Thursday responded to complaints from Council Council Alderman Raymond Lopez, frequent Lightfoot critic, about the homeless situation at the airport. > "We have taken and will continue to take the steps that are necessary to move people out of the airports," Lightfoot told reporters. > "We absolutely fundamentally cannot have people sleeping in our airports who are homeless. That is unacceptable," she said. "We are going to continue, within the bounds of the law, to do what is necessary to provide those folks with support but elsewhere. They can't be in our airports." > The issue came to the fore when Lopez spoke with Tucker Carlson on a Fox News segment earlier in the week, and by Friday, homeless people sheltering in the airport were mostly gone, WBBM-TV reported. ... > The situation has caused backlash from all sides as critics of Lightfoot -- who is currently facing a tough reelection bid -- have said she has not gone far enough to combat homelessness in Chicago, while others demanded more humane treatment for those who had sheltered at the airport.
and they're probably pretty good by US standards
A week from today (11/18), at 2PM, the Logan Square Mutual Aid group will be packaging food that will be distributed to the needy for Thanksgiving. @fed_hampton and @hploveshack (sorry Fed, can’t tag you for some reason) have reached out to the group, and they would love for us to come up - the main idea being ‘the more hands, the quicker the work.’ LSMA is making a big push for this, so the c/Chicago mods and site admins have given their blessing to out the call! Anyone who is interested, we will be meeting at the LSMA warehouse on the west side of the city (Not the far west; relatively close to Logan Square itself) at 2PM on 11/18. If you are interested, you may reach out to Fed_Hampton, myself, or @hploveshack. We will then give you the details on Element, and have a little chat to make sure you’re sincere. We are expecting this to take about 2 or 3 hours, perhaps less, and if there’s enough of us Hexbears to warrant, maybe we can hang out or something nearby after. This being the first IRL Hexbear event, mods and admins will be given updates at each step, and all information/conversations/etc will be kept private. Any questions, feel free to reach out!
Chuy 2: Mayoral boogaloo
Get your union on :big-bill:
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Labor movements are growing. Don't want to be overly optimistic, but I really feel like the seeds of the vanguard are there, folks.
I interact with Spanish only speakers on pretty much a daily basis, so I would love to at least get to a conversational level. I've heard good things about the Cervantes Institute and the Spanish Studio, anyone have good recommendations for classes?
They cancelled, but apparently another venue has been found that is being kept private. Keep your eyes out and ears to the ground.
https://nitter.net/BirdMonitors/status/1572575623163232256?t=uqHwG_RxSjrY_RpFWaCKjQ&s=19
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> Sept. 21 (UPI) -- Chicago police on Wednesday sought to determine the cause of a building explosion in the city's Austin neighborhood. > An explosion destroyed nearly every window in the building and caused a partial collapse, as bricks and dust fell onto the street below at about 9 a.m. Tuesday. Several nearby schools went into lockdown as a result of the blast. > Eight people were taken to the hospital, with three of them in critical condition. > Property owner Roman Viere told ABC7 that he has no idea what could have triggered the explosion. :amerikkka: :mao-shining:
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Folks asking how bad it could get, this will be an everyday occurrence. :cool-zone: time is here.
Any recommendations?
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I feel like we should just make him King of Chicago. With the Daleys gone the Grift Throne has set occupied by neolib pretenders for far too long.
It's probably some kind of ad but it's still super cool. :flag-gay-pride: :flag-trans-pride:
José Cha Cha Jiménez, born on this day in 1948, is the founder of the "Young Lords", a national human rights movement with an emphasis on liberation for Puerto Ricans and other colonized people. The group was founded in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois on September 23rd, 1968, one hundred years after the Grito de Lares uprising. Jiménez was born to jíbaro parents in Caguas, Puerto Rico, but spent his formative years in Chicago. In the summer of 1968, he was picked up for a possession of heroin charge and given a 60-day sentence at Cook County Jail. While in jail, he read "The Seven Story Mountain" by Thomas Merton, and became politically radicalized, also reading texts from radicals such as MLK Jr. and Malcolm X. After his release, Jiménez transformed the Young Lords from a street gang into a human rights organization, entering into the "Rainbow Coalition" with Fred Hampton, head of the BPP's Chicago chapter. After Hampton's assassination by the Chicago Police and FBI, and the Coalition's dissolution, Jiménez continued his activism, running for a Chicago Alderman position in 1975, and helping organize a voter registration drive to support Harold Washington's 1982-83 mayoral campaign. When asked in a 2018 interview what happened to the Young Lords, Jiménez responded: "The question is what happened to the white left, who decided to abandon the Black Panthers and Young Lords when things got hot, as if these groups who risked everything were just, some kind of a fad or that their movement was just some kind of entertainment... ...We will always be reminded of how COINTELPRO and others have worked to split our movement so that we cannot organize together to free our nation of Puerto Rico. We will always work for unity. 'Unidos venceremos' or 'United will win!' It is not just a saying for us. It is a goal." "If the People of El Salvador can ask for self-determination, if the People of Nicaragua can ask for self-determination, if the People of Ireland can ask for self-determination, if the People of Poland can ask for self-determination, if Black People in America can stand up and demand self-determination, then Puerto Ricans demand self-determination." - José Cha Cha Jiménez **Megathreads and spaces to hang out:** - ❤️ Come listen to music with your fellow [Hexbears in Cy.tube](https://cytu.be/r/hexbear) - 💖 Come talk in the [New weekly queer thread](https://hexbear.net/post/211506) - 🧡 [ Monthly Neurodiverse Megathread](https://hexbear.net/post/191338) - 💛 [Read about a current topic in the news](https://bulletins.hexbear.net/) - ⭐️ [May Movie Schedule](https://hexbear.net/post/192489) ⭐️ **reminders:** - 💚 You nerds can join specific comms to see posts about all sorts of topics - 💙 Hexbear’s algorithm prioritizes struggle sessions over upbears - 💜 Sorting by new you nerd - 🌈 If you ever want to make your own megathread, you can go [here nerd](https://hexbear.net/post/187864) **Links To Resources (Aid and Theory):** **Aid:** - 💙[Comprehensive list of resources for those in need of an abortion -- reddit link](https://www.reddit.com/r/Feminism/comments/phrcrn/this_is_a_comprehensive_list_of_resources_for/) - 💙[Resources for Palestine](https://buildpalestine.com/2021/05/15/trusted-organizations-to-donate-to-palestine/) **Theory:** - ❤️[Foundations of Leninism](https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/foundations-leninism/index.htm) - ❤️[Anarchism and Other Essays](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-anarchism-and-other-essays) - ❤️[Mega upload with theory for many tendencies](https://mega.nz/folder/3GBC1SIZ#zyFsn3bRGxOG1sy-2dOfVA)
No permits, just going to take to the streets. Thinking about starting a gofundme for my bail.
Hello comrades, and happy August! This thread is intended to serve as a bulletin board for all the mutual aid opportunities, rallies, and other lefty events coming up for the month of August. Perhaps your org is organizing something, or there’s a rally you want to spread the word about? Leave a link here! Please note that in order to keep identifying info to a minimum, do NOT post whether or not you will be at something in this thread - we suggest using Matrix if you feel the need to coordinate something with another user IRL. A good example of an announcement link would be something like this , with only the pertinent details and no public RSVP lists or anything of the sort. If you do not have an event link for your happening, or the event link might not be something sharable due to opsec, a simple post like “Chicago PSL will be marching on [date/time] at [location] for [cause]” would suffice. As usual, this is an experiement with this being the first local comm - mods and admins have final say. If a link gives away too much identifying info, or has anything else we deem “not good,” we’ll remove it and ask you to repost it a different way.
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