food for thought looking ahead in an area as devoid of militancy as Grand Rapids (copied from a different user in a chat):

Here is an idea. In order to enable and help people to get plugged in long term black lives matter movement, we should have neighborhood-based abolitionist groups (3+ people) who organize low risk actions such as flyering, noise demos, cop watch, chalk art, gear collection, contacting elected officials depending on the characteristics of the neighborhood. Besides contributing to resistance culture, it will help people to get together to do some form of self-organizing. It will increase turnout when there are bigger actions as decentralized organizing spaces can boost the events. It will also help people to develop trust and security culture from within groups for more daring actions.

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Seeing You [from the No Shelter series]" tells the story of Rogers Park is home to two federal detention facilities for “unaccompanied” migrant children, operated by Heartland Alliance. The film focuses on the testimony of José, a former detainee, whose original music is featured together with arrangement and scoring by Chicago artist Lyn Rye. The film follows an intimate altar-building ceremony bridging two locations within six blocks of each other: Touhy Park and the International Youth Center, the facility where José was detained. The film chronicles José’s memories as well as the transformation of the walk between public park and detention facility into a pathway for ceremony, protest, and creative expression in solidarity with detained children and the communities they are disappeared from.

Brief description of organization: Little Village Solidarity Network is a mutual support organization for workers, tenants, and migrants based in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago.

There’s a demo to show solidarity with Mexican feminists this Saturday in chi!

1pm Saturday at the Mexican consulte on Ashland