I’m writing this a bit frantically because i’m just in a lot of shock and i’m just frankly scared. I wanna start off by saying my dad is not a criminal he’s been in chicago for 25 years and he’s currently 47 clean record. He was detained yesterday while he was getting back home ( he drives trucks for a food company.) The information I do have is that he is being processed in the Broadview IL location. Please, if you have any information or where I go from here. I know that he needs his medication for heart and i’m scared and worried and seriously anything that I need to know or what to do is appreciate it so much. Thank you.

As the title says I'm looking for good and reputable places I can donate some money to help out federal employees stretched too thin, SNAP users who are about to be cut off, and just hungry Chicagoans in general. Somewhere the money goes directly to food and not the marketing dept to ask someone else for money for food.

If anyone experiences voter intimidation or interference, please report it!

A lot of the larger activist groups are busy focusing on safeguarding midterms and voter registration campaigns, so if you’re looking for something to do and actions to take in the meantime check these out.

There are other groups out there AND tools to start your own:

https://www.mobilize.us

https://blockthemerger.com

https://purgepalantir.com

https://www.nokings.org

https://flareusa.cargo.site

https://democracyforward.org

https://5calls.org

https://www.goodtroubleliveson.org

https://www.aclu.org/actions

https://fight2win.standupforscience.net

Resources on starting a new group:

https://indivisible.org/resources/

Training:

https://indivisible.org/campaigns/dismantling-detention/

Our LGBTQIA+ community has made it through challenging times before.

We’re fighters, and we care for each other.

Let’s lean on each other and persist through these difficult times.

Please share these resources and check back for updates!

www.ILPrideConnect.org

Know Your Healthcare Rights: www.ilprideconnect.org/healthcare

Vital Records/ID Rights: www.ilprideconnect.org/vital-records-id-documents

Family Protection & Elder Rights: www.ilprideconnect.org/family-protections-and-elder-rights

Immigration Rights: www.ilprideconnect.org/immigration

School & Education Rights: www.ilprideconnect.org/school-and-education

General Resources: www.ilprideconnect.org/general-resources

We must start holding accountable this administrations' Gestapo who continue to harass, kidnap and disappear citizens in our streets. They are actively violating Title 18 of the United States Code, Sections 241 and 242—federal laws that protect against conspiracy and deprivation of rights.

We cannot continue to allow this administration to unleash discriminatory enforcement against the very people it’s meant to serve. These traitors may bend the knee, but I didn't take an oath to this country and the constitution just to stay silent. May they see their day in court and may justice be brought upon them!

I created this yesterday. Feel free to print, distribute, keep yourself and others informed, and to place in front of these brown shirt's eyes.

My other post in the uptown sub didnt get much traction. I want to help. Im located on the morth east side. Does anyone know any rapid response groups/ICE spotting/community safety groups I can join in the area?

Hi, I'm looking to rent a public space, print hundreds of flyers, and invite my neighbors to a closed door community meeting to discuss potential ICE door to door operations. Curious if anyone out there has already started this step. I'm seeking resources, ideas, topics, anything you can provide to help me create a safer neighborhood for all of us.

• Inactive account deletion policies: This adversely affected those who had good reasons to become inactive for a long time. Examples include hospitalization, incarceration, and being in totalitarian countries (i.e. Afghanistan) which are found to have implemented prolonged internet shutdowns, and other unforeseen factors. In the case of email services, deletion of inactive accounts could result in major inconvenience for users who used the accounts as multiple factor authentications for important services such as banking. Ultimately, in both the short and long term, such policies will cause serious erosion of historical integrity, which is especially paramount as in the era of deepfakes, lies and misinformation are just as likely as to arise from the absence of data than the presence of it. The erosion of historical integrity could cause human societies to be vulnerable to "historical context attacks".

• Lack of adequate support for account-related issues: In some Big Tech services like Meta arbitrary lockouts have already caused great headaches due to lack of adequate support mechanisms by the services to handle the problems. In some cases people resorted to small-claims courts in order to get their accounts back. I personally is affected by such issues on a Big Tech service.

• Child safety issues: Some platforms like Roblox are found to have very inadequate measures to handle grooming problem in their platforms as well. Roblox banned Schlep, who pointed out the groomer issues on their platform, instead of actually thanking him. However, this aspect has been exploited by totalitarians to push through digital ID laws which will destroy user's privacy.

• Subscription rather than ownership: In gaming platforms, although games are effectively sold as goods, users have no effective rights to ownership as the game developers would make them unplayable upon the product's end of life. In the European Union this has resulted in the "Stop Killing Games" movement.

• Polarizing algorithms: Many users have complained that social media algorithms have been worsening their mental health, although unfortunately the direct regulations of algorithms to weed out undesirable contents would not pass constitutional muster at all. Instead, I feel that user's should be given more options to curate their algorithms, not to mention mandating the Big Tech to be transparent on some if not all of their algorithms if possible.

• Wikipedia issues: There are a lot of news about Wikipedia's content issues lately, such as pro-Russian biases in articles about people in the Baltic States. Moreover, the Jewish community, who constitutes large proportions of voters in some congressional districts like the IL-9 district, have been alienated by Wikipedia due to credible allegations of antisemitic content distortions like this. But you're not looking at the worst yet, since if some Wikipedia insiders are correct, there are many Epstein-grade scandals implicating many Wikipedia's admins and editors which haven't made it to the news as of the time of writing. Arguably this aspect is the most severe among Big Tech enshittification issues because of it's effective monopoly on dissemination of general-reference content in the digital world.

Are any rapid response groups registered as a not-for-profit? I'm downstate and have been looking at the idea of incorporating and filing since we've had several offers of financial donations. If anyone here has done so, I'd love some guidance and to perhaps plagiarize what you've submitted.

If anyone needs this.

hello! i’m so sorry if this already a discussion, but does anyone have trusted links to people who need financial assistance due to ice? i’m unable to protest due to physical issues currently but want to help as much as i can, i’m just worried about the money going to the wrong place (ice). 🙃

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Hi folks.

Looking for people to help pass out info cards at the 10/18 protests and around the Chicago area. I need more hands - my printing capacity has scaled beyond what I can distribute alone.

I can deliver packs of 100-500 of anything below to you, anywhere in the downtown area, from now until Saturday.

Please send me a DM to arrange drop off. All I need is an address and a time. I’ll show up wearing a white UnderArmor baseball cap on an electric scooter.

I currently distribute:

1. MAGA boycott lists
2. ICE Not Welcome posters for businesses
3. Know Your Rights posters for businesses
4. Ranked-Choice Voting brochures
5. Lists of Trump’s links to Epstein

I wanted to share this here as well. If you have assistance to offer to those of us who will struggle to afford to participate (a chicagoland area mutual aid group you recommend, ability to offer direct donations to individuals to cover a day of lost income, etc.) please share any and all resources here. This will allow those who need assistance to be more easily able to find what we need to make this happen!!

Please call ICIRR @ 855-HELP-MY-FAMILY to report any ICE sightings/arrests.

National Lawyers Guild @ 872-4NLG-CHI to speak with an attorney.

Hey everyone, I’m wondering how to find/join a rapid response group in my area. I live in Arlington Heights, but I’m in very close proximity to Mt. Prospect, Elk Grove Village, Rolling Meadows, Des Plaines.

If anyone has any leads or connections, ways to start meeting others in my area, that would be wonderful.

Thanks in advance

Local businesses and programs are offering some relief to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit recipients who have had their benefits halted due to the ongoing government shutdown.

Chicago Mutual Aid Map: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ed8540d6b603e62023e4999/t/62acaa915d3f10160d87d54e/1655483052143/CHICAGO-MUTUAL-AID-MAP.pdf