Organizations
The Organizations include multikulti’s groups that utilize the space to host events such as meetings, workshops, and movie nights.
2010
| The Illinois Ballot Integrity Project www.ballot-integrity.org |
| The Illinois Ballot Integrity Project is a not-for-profit, non-partisan civic organization dedicated to the correction of election system deficiencies and to ensuring fair, accurate, and completely transparent elections. The Mission of the Illinois Ballot Integrity Project is to inform and educate the public, media and government officials about important election-integrity issues and to promote the adoption of legislation and policies designed to secure the democratic process. |
| Illinois NORML www.illinoisnorml.org/ilnorml |
| Illinois NORML is the Illinois Chapter of the National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws (NORML). We are a public interest, non-profit organization that aims to eliminate penalties for responsible cannabis use. We focus primarily on the state and local levels where we feel we can have the biggest impact. By focusing on the state and local level we are engaging politicians in the communities they represent and where these policies are being enforced the most. Although Federal law still applies we feel that the State and local levels are where our voice can be not only heard but also effective. |
| Media Democracy Day www.chicagoprogmedia.org |
| Media Democracy Day is a think tank committed to educating citizens in Chicago on the ever-changing media landscape and motivating Chicagoans to contribute to the cause of further democratizing media in the city of Chicago. |
| Chicago Independent Media Center www.chicago.indymedia.org |
| Chicago Indymedia — The Chicago Independent Media Center — is a grassroots volunteer collective of media makers committed reporting on progressive issues and grassroots struggles for economic and social justice. |
| Solidarity Study Group |
| Chicago Peace Fest www.peacefestchicago.org |
| Chicago Peace Fest is a music festival that supports peace and free speech.. |
2011
| The Zeitgesit Movement www.tzmillinois.org |
| The Zeitgeist Movement is a Sustainability Advocacy Organization which conducts community based activism and awareness actions through a network of Global/Regional Chapters, Project Teams, Annual Events, Media and Charity Work |
| Occupy Chicago www.occupychi.org |
| Occupy Chicago is a non-violent, revolutionary democratic organization. We practice democracy internally and we work for a peaceful and radical transformation of the United States into a democracy. We welcome all who wish to join us in this struggle. |
| White People Working Against Racism |
| The American Monetary Institute www.monetary.org |
| The American Monetary Institute (AMI) is a publicly supported charity, founded in 1996 to present the results of our research in a manner understandable by the average citizen; leading to monetary reforms which bring forth a greater level of economic justice and a more equitable and efficient functioning of government. |
| Restaurant Opportunities Center www.rocunited.org/chicago |
| The mission of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers (ROC) United is to improve wages and working conditions for the nation’s restaurant workforce. |
| Rising Tide www.twitter.com/RisingTideChi |
| Rising Tide North America was born out of the conviction that corporate-friendly and state-sponsored “solutions” to climate change will not save us. We’re a 100% volunteer, grassroots network of groups and individuals who take direct action to confront the roots causes of climate change. We promote local, community-based solutions to the climate crisis and support climate justice. Learn more about Rising Tide by going to www.risingtidenorthamerica.org. |
| Chicago Coalition to Take Back Our Elections www.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/TakeBackOurElections/info |
| The Chicago Coalition to Take Back Our Elections has come together to advocate for Free, Fair and Valid Elections. Chicago is a cesspool of Election Fraud, from the precincts all the way to the very top, gosh darn it, we are famous for it! The solution to pollution is dilution, that means you and I, the citizens of Chicago, must rise up to take our Elections back. We come from all Wards in the city, we come from all walks of life. Let’s show the crony politicians that we own our Elections not them. |
| Rainforest Action Network www.ranchicago.org |
| RAN Chicago will work to protect the earth and support human rights through education, grassroots organizing, and nonviolent direct action. |
| Chicago Permaculture Meetup www.meetup.com/chicagolandpermaculture |
| The Chicagoland Permaculture Meetup is one such group that is applying permaculture design to its own development. We see this group as an evolving resource to help facilitate the application of permaculture, it’s principles, and connection with others who wish to be involved with permaculture in the Chicagoland region. |
| The Hope Shine Organization www.thehopeshine.org |
| A 501(c)3 non-profit organization that educates and empowers families affected by autism. The mission of The Hope Shine is to make the therapeutic interventions that may be necessary for recovery from autism available to everyone regardless of their financial situation. We provide education and resources to affected families and the public about autism recovery and prevention and to support action to end the autism epidemic. |
| Amnesty International www.amnestychicago.wordpress.com |
| Chicago LG 113 works to shine Amnesty’s light on human rights abuses in Chicago and around the world. Our focus is primarily on outreach, spreading Amnesty’s message and growing the movement. As activists, our challenge is to expand awareness about human rights and to initiate change within our own communities. |
| GMO Free Chicago www.facebook.com/groups/241609582530477 |
| Working to keep our foods GMO free! |
| Illinois Right to KNOW GMO www.illinoisrighttoknowgmo.org |
| This group is dedicated to educating the public on Genetically Modified Foods. |
| Nuclear Energy Information Service www.neis.org |
| Nuclear Energy Information Service is a non-profit organization committed to ending nuclear power. To accomplish this end, NEIS: educates, activates and organizes the public on energy issues; builds and mobilizes grassroots power and nonviolent opposition to nuclear power; advocates sustainable and ecologically-sound energy alternatives. Through the application of nonviolent and democratic principles NEIS is determined to end nuclear power in Illinois, in the Great Lakes Bioregion, and on Planet Earth. |
| Terra Firma Productions www.facebook.com/groups/217098204990 |
| A grassroots media project covering environmental issues. |
| 911 Truth Chicago www.facebook.com/pages/Chicago-911-Truth/244857988857652 |
| We are a group of volunteers providing FREE DVDs, printed materials and psychic support to all in the Chicago Area seeking to raise pertinent questions regarding the events of 9/11/01 |
| Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth www.ae911truth.org |
| Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth (AE911Truth) is a non-profit corporation. We are a non-partisan association of architects, engineers and affiliates dedicated to exposing the falsehoods and to revealing truths about the “collapses” of the 3 World Trade Center high-rises on September 11, 2001. |
| Law Enforcement Against Prohibition www.leap.cc |
| LEAP is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization made up of current and former members of the law enforcement and criminal justice communities who are speaking out about the failures of our existing drug policies. Those policies have failed, and continue to fail, to effectively address the problems of drug abuse, especially the problems of juvenile drug use, the problems of addiction, and the problems of crime caused by the existence of a criminal black market in drugs. |
| Chicago Progressive Media Network www.chicagoprogmedia.org |
| The organization is a synthesis of an informed republic geared towards recognizing and networking independent news media outlets in Chicago and hosting yearly seminars on the current issues and challenges affecting independent media. |
| Veterans for Peace www.chicagovfp.org |
| We, having been in the military, do hereby affirm our greater responsibility to serve the cause of world peace. To this end we will work, with others: • Toward increasing public awareness of the costs of war • To restrain our government from intervening, overtly and covertly, in the internal affairs of other nations • To end the arms race and to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons • To seek justice for veterans and victims of war • To abolish war as an instrument of national policy. To achieve these goals, members of Veterans for Peace pledge to use non-violent means and to maintain an organization that is both democratic and open with the understanding that all members are trusted to act in the best interests of the group for the larger purpose of world peace. |
| Network for Revolutionary Change www.networkforrevolutionarychange.org |
| the Network for Revolutionary Change (NRC) seeks to unify the scattered working class, peace, justice, and community-based struggles presently underway across the United States with the necessary strategy and tactics to finally win justice and liberty for all. As a major first step, the NRC is forming a Network of practical leaders in collaboration with the hundreds of already existing groupings and thousands of individuals who understand the systemic nature of the problem and are fighting it out daily on diverse battlefronts. |
| Tar Sands Free Midwest www.tarsandsfreemidwest.org |
| We oppose all tar sands pipeline expansion throughout the Midwest and stand in solidarity with First Nations and affected communities throughout Canada and the U.S. demanding an end to the tar sands. We support an end to fossil fuel subsidies and believe that carbon taxation and a clean energy and climate policy are the way forward. By clean energy we mean wind, solar and geothermal energy. We are opposed to nuclear, natural gas, biofuels, and all forms of coal. We hope you will get involved by joining us for a meeting, event, or action. |
| Movement to Save our Mental Health Clinics www.saveourmentalhealth.org |
| A coalition of individuals that want to ensure the continued existence of mental health centers in Chicago. |
| Citizens Act to Protect Our Water www.protectourpublicwater.net |
| CAPOW! (Citizens Act to Protect Our Water) is taking action to protect Chicago area water quality and public ownership. We are a non-partisan grassroots organization. |
2012
| Coalition Against NATO / G8 www.cang8.wordpress.com |
| The Coalition Against NATO/G8 War & Poverty Agenda (CANG8) is organizing protests at the NATO and G8 meetings being held in Chicago in May 2012. On August 28 2011, a coalition was formed to protest the NATO/G8 summits being held in Chicago on May 19-21 2012. Over 80 organizations participated in this founding meeting. The coalition voted to organize a legal, permitted, family friendly march and rally on May 19. Additionally, it was later decided to convene a People’s Summit on May 12-13. Both events give people a place to have their voices be heard and to share a vision of what the world could be when people are put before profit; when money goes to jobs, healthcare, education, pensions, housing and the environment, not war; when we say no to war and austerity. |
| Illinois Coalition to Protect the Public Commons www.icppc9.blogspot.com |
| The Illinois Coalition to Protect the Public Commons (ICPPC) is comprised of Chicago area organizations and individuals concerned about the growing privatization of public assets throughout Illinois. The impact of privatization on the quality of the public’s life, the financial health of our state and the integrity and effectiveness of local and state governments, is a matter of serious concern. |
| Anarchist Black Cross Chicago www.chicagoabc.org |
| Chicago Anarchist Black Cross: Abolish Prisons and All Forms of Punishment |
| Project NIA www.project-nia.org |
| Launched in 2009, Project NIA is an advocacy, organizing, popular education, research, and capacity-building center with the long-term goal of ending youth incarceration. We believe that several simultaneous approaches are necessary in order to develop and sustain community-based alternatives to the system of policing and incarceration. Our mission is to dramatically reduce the reliance on arrest, detention, and incarceration for addressing youth crime and to instead promote the use of restorative and transformative practices, a concept that relies on community-based alternatives. |
| Iraq Veterans Against the War www.ivaw.org/chicago |
| Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) was founded by Iraq war veterans in July 2004 at the annual convention of Veterans for Peace (VFP) in Boston to give a voice to the large number of active duty service people and veterans who are against this war, but are under various pressures to remain silent. |
| SAGE community health center www.sagecommunityhealth.org |
| Sage is a worker-owned health collective of three health and healing practitioners who have dedicated our lives to social justice, community building, and healing justice. With years of collective experience as activists, we have born witness to fatigue and burnout among our colleagues and ourselves. This has inspired us to begin the process of healing ourselves as we strive to facilitate healing in others. |
| Jewish Anti-Zionist Network Chicago www.ijsn.net/C93 |
| We are an international network of Jews who are uncompromisingly committed to struggles for human emancipation, of which the liberation of the Palestinian people and land is an indispensable part. Our commitment is to the dismantling of Israeli apartheid, the return of Palestinian refugees, and the ending of the Israeli colonization of historic Palestine. |
| Antiwar Committee Chicago www.antiwarcommitteechicago.blogspot.com |
| The Anti-War Committee Chicago began in 2012 by individuals who had successfully marched against NATO in May 2012. We organize vigils, rallies, marches, educational forums, street theater and civil disobedience actions to challenge the injustices of U.S. foreign policy. We believe in peace through justice and we stand in solidarity with oppressed people here and abroad. |
| Midwest Antiwar Mobilization www.chicagomassaction.org/ |
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| Chicago Action Medical www.chicagoactionmedical.wordpress.com/ |
| Chicago Action Medical has been working in Chicago since 2002, providing medical support at direct actions for social change |
| World Can’t Wait www.chicago.worldcantwait.net/ |
| The World Can’t Wait organizes people living in the United States to repudiate and stop the fascist direction initiated by the Bush Regime, including: the murderous, unjust and illegitimate occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan; the global “war of terror” of torture, rendition and spying; and the culture of bigotry, intolerance and greed. |
| Chicago Chopin Foundation www.chopinmonumentinchicago.com |
| Chicago Chopin Foundation believes that the 200th-Anniversary of Frédéric Chopin’s birth presents us with an opportunity to celebrate and commemorate one of the greatest pianists and piano composers of all time. We would like to make Chopin’s music easily available to the general public and contribute to it becoming more popular and recognizable. It is our aim to achieve this through a variety of means, including, but not limited to, various concerts, publications, and recordings. |
| Illinois Green Party www.ilgp.org/ |
| The Illinois Green Party (ILGP) is a diverse group of individuals dedicated to advancing the Greens’ Ten Key Values in our political and social lives. The ILGP is affiliated with the Green Party of the United States and is part of the international Green movement. |
| Chicago Greens http://chicagoactivism.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/chicago-greens/ |
| The purpose of this organization shall be to work toward a Green society, as represented by the Ten Key Values of The Greens: Ecological Wisdom, Social Justice, Grassroots Democracy, Nonviolence, Decentralization, Community-based Economics, Feminism, Respect for Diversity, Personal and Global Responsibility, Future Focus |
| United Taxidrivers Community Council www.facebook.com/pages/UTCC-Chicago-United-Taxidrivers-Community-Council/125505620914070 |
| The United Taxidrivers Community Council (UTCC) was founded in January 2008, representing the unification of the bases of several grassroots taxi driver-led struggles throughout the previous year. Most of these campaigns were active at the time of the inception of the alliance, while others had already achieved a great deal of success. The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) played an instrumental role in bringing together the various taxi driver-led struggles that it had already been actively supporting over the past year. UTCC’s origins lie in the injustices and exploitive working conditions faced by Chicago cabdrivers. |
| Chicago Anarchist Film Festival www.chicagoanarchistfilmfest.com/ |
| CAFF was a film festival which lasted thirteen years and came out of a three year run called Matches and Mayhem. CAFF was a home for anarchists, anti-authoritarians, the anarcho-friendly and the anarcho-curious to experience radical cinema from around the world with features, shorts, documentaries, animation, and found footage. Our definition of anarchist film is that which crosses boundaries, takes risks, and subverts passivity. We are currently in a transitory state. |
| Frack Free Illinois www.facebook.com/FrackFreeIllinois |
| We, grassroots environmental groups across Illinois, (The Illinois Coalition For A Moratorium On Fracking — aka Frack Free Illinois) include MoveOn.org, PDA Chicago and Illinois, SE Environmental Task Force, CAPA (Chicago Area Peace Action), Stop the Frack Attack on IL, Gray Panthers, and the Illinois Citizens for Clean Air and Water and others. We stand together in support of a Frack Free Illinois. We advocate for a ban on the dangerous practice of fracking and work towards stopping or slowing fracking and all of its dangerous effects — in the IL General Assembly, state agencies and local governments. |
| Protest the DNC |
| The American Indian Center of Chicago www.aic-chicago.org/ |
| We are the oldest urban Native American center in the nation. Our mission is to promote the fellowship among Indian people of all Tribes living in metropolitan Chicago, and to create bonds of understanding and communication between Indians and non-Indians in this city. To advance the general welfare of American Indians into the metropolitan community life; to foster the economic and educational advancement of Indian people; to sustain cultural, artistic and avocational pursuits; and to perpetuate Indian cultural values. |
| The Civic Lab www.civiclab.us |
| We are dedicated to accelerating and deepening civic engagement and grassroots democracy by creating community, building tools and teaching civic skills. We are a co-working space and we seek organizations and individuals who want a home for their working day – coders, activists, campaigners, consultants, academics, designers, and people interested in social change and community improvement. |
| Rebel Arts Collective www.artsoccupychi.tumblr.com/ |
| The Rebel Arts Collective is a network of artists and cultural workers of all mediums. We collaborate with each other to create new political art. to create & learn with each other to form new bottom up modes of expression. We work with existing organizations in the fight for social and economic justice, with the goal of making the movement visible, audible and irresistible. We organize artistic events and fundraisers that showcase political music, poetry, visual art and theater, designed to highlight various social justice causes. We host meetups to connect socially conscious artists to one another and to keep our finger on the pulse of the struggle. |
| Deep Green Resistance chicago.deepgreenresistance.org |
| Deep Green Resistance Chicago is working in the Chicago community to help to foster the analysis and strategy of Deep Green Resistance. Deep Green Resistance is an organization that is strives to align itself with the systems of the natural world and seeks to protect those systems from the continuing devastation and obliteration of those systems by the megalomaniac system called industrial civilization. Deep Green Resistance Chicago is an organization that understands that the Planet is primary and allies itself with those in the Chicago area and around the world that advance causes of environmental and social justice. Deep Green Resistance Chicago believes that our culture, industrial civilization, is inherently exploitive and can never be sustainable. Deep Green Resistance Chicago fosters a culture of resistance to this violent, greedy, and extremely short sighted culture. |
| Illinois Single Payer Coalition www.ilsinglepayer.org |
| We are a coalition of groups and individuals throughout Illinois working to enact a single-payer system for financing health care. We seek coverage that is universal, equitably financed, not-for-profit, and publicly accountable, offering comprehensive health care and free choice of providers. |
| Haymarket Anti-Capitalist Meetup www.facebook.com/groups/282891798478938/ |
| This is intended to be a Forum for calling meetings and sharing information. The Haymarket Anticapitalist Organization (name subject to change pending first meeting) is intended to be a coalition of Communists, Anarchists, Socialists, Wobblies and anyone else who wishes to give Capitalism the Wrench. Decisions are made by 100% consensus. |
| Raise the Minimum Wage https://www.facebook.com/events/186876064775638/ |
| Protestors from Stand Up! Chicago and other groups demonstrate throughout the city, calling for an increase in Illinois’ minimum wage to more than $8.25 per hour. |
| Free the NATO 5 www.freethenato3.wordpress.com/ |
| The case of the NATO 3 is an example of political repression directed at anti-war and economic justice activists, complicated by numerous human rights abuses, all explained away by fear-mongering and baseless accusations of terrorism. We must join together and resist this flagrant attempt to silence those who challenge military violence overseas and social inequality at home |
| Strike Debt www.facebook.com/StrikeDebtChicago |
| Strike Debt Chicago is a part of the growing global movement of debt resistance. |
2013
| Foundation for a United Front www.facebook.com/BuildingSolidarity |
| Network with organizations on the common ground issues, provide education and training, and to sustain organizations through financially assistance. |
| Chicago Vegan Meetup www.meetup.com/chicagovegan |
| Anyone and everyone that is vegan or open to becoming vegan, that is looking to spend time enjoying the company of other vegans. |
| Chicago Veggie Pride Parade www.meetup.com/ChicagoVeggiePride |
| We welcome all veg*ns (vegans/vegetarians) in the greater Chicago area (and in the entire Midwest) who would like to give or receive support in their choices, whether they are based on Health, Ethical, Environmental, or Spiritual reasons. It doesn’t matter if you discovered health benefits of a Vegan Raw Food diet, or chose being vegetarian/vegan because of your Animal Rights stands, or because of any other reasons. The point is that you see an advantage of the plant-based diet and wish to share and promote it (for the sake of the animals, environment, or your personal health/health of your loved ones). |
| Chicago Environmental Justice Coalition www.facebook.com/pages/Chicago-Environmental-Justice-Coalition/97187419310 |
| Environmental Justice.Clean Power.Fair Trade.Healthy Communities.Organic Local Produce.Energy Conservation.Sustainable Development.No Clean Coal.No Mountaintop Removal |
| Phenomenal Women’s Circle |
| Cabbies for Justice http://cabbiesforjustice.com/ |
| Cab Drivers for Justice is a legal trust account for a case that has been brought in Federal court. Chicago taxi drivers have been mistreated and exploited by the City of Chicago government. Some examples include petty ticket practices with unreasonably high fines, no legal representation to defend violations, setting high overhead expenses for taxi drivers, no consideration of fare increase. |
| The Amalgamated Transit Union http://www.atu241chicago.org/ |
| The members of ATU Local 241 are bus transportation workers. Our members are the faces that greet the riding public daily. They are the bus operators and mechanics of CTA and Pace West Division. They are also the support staff that services and maintains the buses. Our members include bus clerks, supervisors and instructors, the clerical staff in General Offices, warehouse, stockroom and shop employees for the CTA. |
| Chicago WiFi Project http://chiwifi.net |
| We aim to provide free WIFI to the world, Seriously! We’re starting in Chicago. To fund our projects we sell telecommunications services with high levels of support to individuals, non-profits and businesses of all sizes. |
| The Open Source Temple www.opensourcetemple.com |
| The OpenSource Temple seeks to guide its members through life using reason and compassion as the foundation. We believe that knowledge should be free and apply the principals of opensource in both our lives and our work. |
| The Chicago Innocence Project http://www.chicagoinnocenceproject.org/ |
| The Chicago Innocence Project investigates cases in which prisoners may have been convicted of crimes they did not commit, with priority to murder cases that resulted in sentences of death or life without parole.We involve college students, community residents, private investigators and journalists in the reporting process. We do not represent clients in criminal cases, but after our investigation is completed, outside counsel may bring new evidence of innocence to court. Our fundamental goal is to expose and remedy wrongdoing by the criminal justice system. |
| Global Climate Convergence Chicago www.facebook.com/Globalclimateconvergencechicago |
| The Global Climate Convergence for People, Planet and Peace over Profit is an education and direct action campaign beginning this spring, with “10 days to change course,” running from Earth Day to May Day. It provides coordinated action and collaboration across fronts of struggle and national borders to harness the transformative power we already possess as a thousand separate movements. These grassroots justice movements are sweeping the globe, rising up against the global assault on our shared economy, ecology, peace and democracy. The accelerating climate disaster, which threatens to unravel civilization as soon as 2050, intensifies all of these struggles and creates new urgency for collaboration and unified action. The Convergence creates a unifying call for a solution as big as the crisis barreling down on us – an emergency Green Economic Transformation through a Global Green New Deal including universal jobs, health care, education, food and housing security, economic and political democracy, demilitarization, an end to deportations, and 100% clean renewable energy by 2030. Clearly the time for action is NOW. |
| Earth Day Chicago www.facebook.com/events/554555684642408 |
| We’re marching to protest some of the biggest climate criminals and economic parasites and issuing them cease and desist letters from the people. On this march, we will stop by Boeing, a big polluting military contractor that reaps massive profits on the war machine as well as BP, a gigantic fossil fuel polluter. We will also stop off at Chase headquarters. Chase is a huge investor in many climate killing projects, and one of the principle “too big to fail” destroyers of our economy and communities. Finally we will head to Congress and Michigan where Food Not Bombs Pilsen is serving food to everyone for a “people’s picnic”. There will also be spoken word, singing, and other entertainment for people to enjoy. |
| The Justice Party www.JusticePartyUSA.org |
| The Justice Party was founded in December of 2011 to organize an effective, grassroots, broad-based political alternative to the corporate controlled Democratic and Republican parties. All are welcome in the Justice Party regardless of political party affiliation. Other political parties appear only during election cycles. The Justice Party is striving to become a new kind of political party, one that is involved in all the struggles that are important to the people of our country. The vision of the Justice Party is a peaceful nation and world where social, economic and environmental justice prevails. In order to realize our vision, our mission is to raise awareness, inspire, organize, and mobilize to include and engage people of broad diversity in collaborative movement building and achieving electoral success. |
| Chicago Socialist Party www.chicagosocialistparty.com |
| The Chicago Socialist Party (CSP) is an independent, democratic socialist organization that supports numerous progressive, radical causes in an effort to help build a broad-based, multi-tendency progressive movement. |
| Americorps VISTAS |
| The team’s vision simply put was to provide a space where the support of friends and peers can reduce stress, encourage a positive outlook on life, and motivate individuals to remain proactive about their health. The team members volunteer full time at various social service non-profit organizations around the Chicago area. Their roles include providing health education, HIV testing and counseling, in addition to other social support services to Chicago communities hit hardest by HIV/AIDS. Most recently a benefit was held in early April to also raise funds for the cause at Multi Kulti. The events purpose was three-fold: to promote safe sex, to raise awareness of the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic, and to raise money for the project. |
| Public Allies www.publicallies.org/site/c.liKUL3PNLvF/b.3158701/k.BF34/Chicago.htm |
| Public Allies Chicago is a proud member of the AmeriCorps national service network. We’re changing the face and practice of leadership in Chicago since 1994. |
| The National Lawyers Guild http://nlgchicago.org |
| The National Lawyers Guild represents progressive political movements, using the law to protect human rights above property interests and to attain social justice. |
| 350 Chicago www.chicago350.org |
| Increase awareness and understanding of climate change, Provide ways for people to get involved that will help create a different future, Partner with other like minded organizations in order to maximize impact, Provide a voice for the 350.org movement in Chicago |
| No ALEC Chicago www.facebook.com/events/398759776900781/ |
| Be there August 8th to protest outside of the American Legislative Exchange Council [ALEC] 40th Anniversary Conference in Chicago. ALEC is bringing state politicians to Chicago to push a dangerous agenda that rewards greedy CEOs at the expense of middle class families and our public schools and puts our safety at risk. Forty years of ALEC is nothing to celebrate. When greedy corporations are allowed to make the rules, our community suffers. Good full time jobs are outsourced or replaced by part time jobs at low wages while CEOs and corporations dodge their fair share of taxes. That’s why students, workers, faith leaders, retirees, environmentalists and community activists are speaking up about ALEC and shady corporate front groups like them. |
| The Beehive Collective www.beehivecollective.org |
| The Beehive Design Collective is a wildly-motivated, all volunteer, activist-art collective dedicated to “cross-pollinating the grassroots” by creating collaborative, anti-copyright images for use as educational and organizing tools. We work anonymously as word-to-image translators of complex global stories, gathered and shared through first hand conversations with affected communities. |
| Midwest Action Against Drones http://midwestactionagainstdrones.wordpress.com/ |
| Join others from across the Midwest for a protest in Chicago to oppose drone warfare and surveillance |
| LGBTQ Prisoner Group |
| International Socialist Organization www.chicagosocialists.org |
| We are the Chicago District of the International Socialist Organization. We’re an activist group committed to building social movements to challenge oppression & corporate greed and for workers’ power. We’re simultaneously building a revolutionary socialist alternative that puts human need and cooperation at the heart of society–as opposed to the system of greed, corruption, and wealth controlled by the few at the top of society. |
| Borderbend Arts Collective www.borderbend.org/index.html |
| The Borderbend Arts Collective is a 501(c)(3) organization; our mission is to promote the arts by giving artists opportunities to collaborate and show their work to a variety of audiences. Annual Borderbend programs include the Chicago Calling Arts Festival and Mingus Awareness Project. Borderbend partners with other organizations to enrich and extend the reach of its program which have involved artists, organizations, and communities from the U.S. and beyond. |
| Sol MasterPeace www.soulmasterpeace.com |
| Soul MasterPeace is a FULLY interactive, crowd participatory, PAINTING EXPERIENCE, dedicated to bringing people together through the creation of ART to IMPROVISED funk, soul, hip-hop, jazz!!! |
| Socialist Alternative www.socialistalternative.org/about/ |
| Socialist Alternative is the organization that spearheaded the campaign to elect Kshama Sawant to Seattle City Council, the first independent socialist elected in a major U.S. city in decades. We are a national organization fighting in our workplaces, communities, and campuses against the exploitation and injustices people face every day. We are community activists fighting against budget cuts in public services; we are activists campaigning for a $15/hour minimum wage and fighting, democratic unions; we are people of all colors speaking out against racism and attacks on immigrants, students organizing against tuition hikes and war, women and men fighting sexism and homophobia. |
| Free Geek www.freegeekchicago.org/ |
| FreeGeek Chicago is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit community organization that recycles used computers and parts to provide functional computers, education and job skills training in exchange for community service. |
| Democracy for the USA www.democracyfortheusa.org |
| We are a new organization based in Chicago that grew out of the Occupy rebellion and whose goal is to replace the oligarchy in the U.S. with democracy. A grassroots political activist organization with the goal of wholesale replacement of the plutocratic oligarchy now ruling the USA with a system of democracy where rule is accomplished by the people. No longer will we have elected representatives, instead government will consist of Community Assemblies and Executive Councils. Sortition rather than election will be the means of establishing members. |
2014
| Sex Workers Outreach Project http://redlightchicago.wordpress.com/ |
| Sex Workers Outreach Project Chicago [SWOP-Chicago] is a grassroots organization dedicated to improving the lives of current and former sex workers in the Chicago area, on and off of the job. |
| Communities United Against Foreclosures and Evictions www.stopeviction.wordpress.com/ |
| We are members of various communities in and around Chicago who fight to keep people in their homes, and to claim land for people who are homeless. We believe housing is a human right, and we recognize that big banks’ predatory lending practices and subprime mortgage loans have been the main cause of the current housing crisis. |
| Human Rights Campaign www.hrc.org/steering-committees/chicago |
| As the largest civil rights organization working to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans, the Human Rights Campaign represents a force of more than 1.5 million members and supporters nationwide — all committed to making HRC’s vision a reality. |
| International Marxist Humanist Organization www.facebook.com/pages/International-Marxist-Humanist-Organization/134478566675034 |
| The International Marxist-Humanist Organization (IMHO) aims to develop and project a viable vision of an alternative to capitalism—a new, human society— that can give direction to today’s freedom struggles. The IMHO is based on the unique philosophic contributions that have guided Marxist-Humanism since it was founded in the 1950s by Raya Dunayevskaya. We do so by working out a unity of theory and practice, worker and intellectual, and philosophy and organization. |
| System Change Not Climate Change www.facebook.com/chiscncc |
| Chicagoans who believe the current ecological crisis results from the capitalist system. And we must confront it through an international mass movement. |
| Medical Marijuana Institute www.medmarijuanainstitute.com/ |
| Founded in 2013, the Medical Marijuana Institute. MMI believes that medical marijuana has significant therapeutic benefits for many medical conditions. It is the community mission of MMI to educate, advocate for, and support the medical marijuana industry. |
| No War Iran www.nowaroniran-chicago.org/ |
| Broken Bonds Network www.brokenbonds.org |
| BROKEN BONDS NETWORK is an organization created to: Increase public awareness of Parental Alienation; a form of child abuse, Network with other shared-parenting and family advocacy groups, Furnish information to divorcing and/ or separating families that will prevent the destruction of the parent-child bond and; Provide support and resources to help heal and restore the broken bonds shattered by Parental Alienation Abuse. |
| Overpass Light Brigade www.facebook.com/ChicagoOLB |
| We are the Chicago Branch of the Overpass Light Brigade, raising messages of social justice on the streets, el platforms, and overpasses of our city. |
| Alliance for Economic Democracy |
| Jewish-Palestine Solidarity http://psgchicago.org/ |
| Chicago Lethal Poetry www.facebook.com/lethalpoetry |
| Beyond Mere Words. Lethal Poetry is an art organization in Chi supporting independent music, poetry, comedy, and so much more! |
| Consensus www.consensuschicago.com |
| Consensus is a community arts center on the southwest side of Chicago where people connect, create, and cultivate. Consensus aims to build peace by fostering collaboration among artists and service providers in Chicago. Our programs, events, and outreach mobilize the arts to prevent violence and promote healing. We offer our space as an open, beautiful, inspiring environment where talents become gifts to the community. |
| National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression http://naarpr.org/ |
| The Chicago Branch, now the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (CAARPR), continues to struggle for justice with a focus on the following goals: free innocent prisoners; systemic racism; abolish the death penalty; fight -isms; defend civil liberties; expose the prison industrial complex; establish civilian control of police. |
| March Against Monsanto Chicago www.facebook.com/MarchAgainstMonsantoChicago |
| March Against Monsanto is a global call to action aimed at informing the public, calling into question long-term health risks of genetically modified foods and demanding that GMO products be labeled so that consumers can make informed decisions. |
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