- ICIRR (for immigration-related arrests and ICE sightings): 855-435-7693
- NLG Hotline (if you are arrested at a protest or for political activity): 872-465-4244
- Cook County Public Defender hotline (if you are arrested in Chicago or any other city or town in Cook County): 844-817-4448
- First Defense Legal Aid Hotline (to report police, federal law enforcement, or national guard misconduct): 800-529-7374
FUCKING SHOW UP
Broadview ICE Abduction Center, 1930 Beach Street, Chicago
Feb. 21, 2026, noon
Preséntate de una puta vez. Canned goods/hygiene product docations welcome! ¡Se aceptan enlatadoes y artículos de hygiene! Bring a friend / PPE encouraged Trae a un amigo / Se recomienda EPP... More
Know Your Rights Canvass
Location provide upon registration.
Feb. 21, 2026, noon - Feb. 21, 2026, 3 p.m.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice and ONE Northside invite you to join the Northside Lakefront Rapid Response Team on Saturday, 2/21 from 12:00 to 3:00 pm to talk with our neighbors in Edgewater about their rights and what to do if they encounter immigration enforcement. Additional information will ... More
AFIRE Mabuhay! Meeting
Please register to receive the address
Feb. 21, 2026, 11:30 a.m. - Feb. 21, 2026, 2 p.m.
It's kind of hard to believe it's been a year with this administration, but their presence serves as a constant reminder: we have a lot of work ahead of us and we're looking to build change that lasts. Haven't engaged us yet? Here’s an opportunity for you! First member meeting of 2026 on Saturday... More
Freedom February
Jane Addams Hull House, 800 S. Halsted St, Chicago
Feb. 21, 2026, 11 a.m. - Feb. 21, 2026, 3 p.m.
Pull up! Freedom February is a call to action: to defend Black History, liberate Black futures, and fight for the freedom of all. This is a mass call for Black community members, organizers, and UIC students to join us through liberatory discussions, teachings, and Black joy. RSVP Required: ht... More
Neighborhood Canvass With Rad Rogers Park
Living Water Church, 6808 N. Ashland Blvd, Chicago
Feb. 21, 2026, 10:30 a.m.
Looking for something meaningful you can do to build a better world than what we’re currently living through? Consider this your personal invitation. Log off and meet up with us on Saturday Feb. 21st for a training and canvass of our RP neighbors to keep us all safe from ICE! Canvass training pro... More
Midwest Books to Prisoners
Meet at Brownstones, cyber cafe on the first floor of the DePaul Student Center, 2250 N. Sheffield Ave, Chicago at 9:30 am, or go directly to Theatre V, 3613 W. Cermak, Chicago at 10 am
Feb. 21, 2026, 9:30 a.m.
Join Students Against Incarceration - DePaul this Saturday from 10am-3pm helping out Midwest Books for Prisoners! We will be packaging books, magazines, and other printed materials to incarcerated individuals across the Midwest. Bring books to donate, and sign up using the QR code to join us. Meet u... More
Knitting For Mutual Aid
Nabala Cafe, 4660 N. Broadway Ave, Chicago
Feb. 20, 2026, 7 p.m.
Donations for 19th District Mutual Aid Migrant Support. Join us for a knitting night for migrant mutual aid on Friday, February 20th! Even if you don't knit, support the cafe and donate high needs items: underwear, sweatpants, long sleeved shirts, toothpaste, shampoo, and pads. Knitted/donated it... More
Rhythms of Liberation - Cumbia 101
Casa DuPage Workers Center, 311 S Naperville Rd Suite C, Wheaton, IL
Feb. 20, 2026, 6:30 p.m.
💃🏽Join us as we explore Cumbia’s African origins and roots in resistance. Following a discussion we’ll have a dance workshop! 💵 $10 suggested donation ✊🏾 Culture has always played in a role in not only defending our communities, but lighting the path towards liberation. It holds the memory of ... More
Liberation Flick - "The Killing Floor"
Chicago Liberation Center, 2712 W. Cermak Road, Chicago
Feb. 20, 2026, 6 p.m.
Join us for a screening of ‘The Killing Floor,’ which tells the story of Black sharecropper Frank Custer’s journey from Mississippi to Chicago, where he becomes a meatpacking worker and unionist. 🍼 Childcare provided on site. 🍕 Free food available for attendees. Based on historical research i... More
Resisting Trump's Billionaire Agenda
Virtual
Feb. 20, 2026, 6 p.m.
Join this incredible panel to learn more about how we build a stronger movement to defeat authoritarianism and build a better world for Black, brown and working class children everywhere. https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/m_hM0xAcQEi35Wdn2fEtHA#/registration... More
Understanding Bad Bunny
Goodspeed Hall, Fulton Recital Hall, University of Chicago, 1010 E. 59th St, Chicago
Feb. 20, 2026, noon - Feb. 20, 2026, 1:30 p.m.
A conversation with Jessica S. Baker, Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, and Danielle Roper. Please come join us to enjoy and learn more about Bad Bunny’s music. This event will feature three faculty from the Division of the Arts & Humanities who are experts on Afro-Caribbean music and performance, Puerto Rican ... More
Feeding Our Neighbors & Donate Warm Clothes
4600 S. Greenwood Ave, Chicago
Feb. 20, 2026, 8 a.m. - Feb. 20, 2026, 2 p.m.
Volunteer opportunity. Everyone welcome! Sign up at socialchange.site This event is made possible in partnership with Social Change, BLACC, AHF, Kenwood United Church of Christ, Co-Lab for Social Equity, Rights & Restoration Law Group, Chicago Housing Authority, The Springfield Project, State Sen... More
Fund Medicaid, Not Detention Centers!
Louis Pastuer Monument, near 1831 W Congress Pkwy, Chicago
Feb. 19, 2026, 8 p.m.
This Thursday Feb 19 at 8:00 pm at the Louis Pasteur monument healthcare unions and allies will be rallying to fund Medicaid, not ICE... More
Citizenship: Notes On an American Myth by Daisy Hernández
Women & Children First Bookstore, 5233 N. Clark St, Chicago
Feb. 19, 2026, 7 p.m. - Feb. 19, 2026, 8:30 p.m.
Women & Children First Bookstore hosts Daisy Hernández to celebrate the release of Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth. For this event, Daisy will be joined in conversation by Sarah Schulman. This event will be held at the bookstore and is free to attend, but will also act as a fundraiser for Mid... More
Yalla Parkour Film Screening
Location provided upon RSVP.
Feb. 19, 2026, 7 p.m.
Join Climbers for Palestine Chicago for a film screening of @yallaparkourfilm on Thursday Feb 19th, 7 pm in Chicago. We’ll be selling some merch, raffling off some prizes and will have tea and desserts. Please donate generously as 100% of proceeds raised will support the families of the Gazan athlet... More
The Spies Among Us
Haymarket House, 800 W. Buena Ave, Chicago
Feb. 19, 2026, 6 p.m. - Feb. 19, 2026, 9 p.m.
Haymarket Books is proud to present the next installment in our community film series: Films for a Changing World🎬Join us Thursday, February 19th for a screening of Jamie Coughlin Silverman and Gabriel Silverman’s 2025 documentary: The Spies Among Us. The film will be followed by a discussion led by... More
Beating Bovino - How Attorneys Secured a Victory in Bogus Murder for Hire Trial
Grace Place, 637 S. Dearborn St, Chicago
Feb. 19, 2026, 6 p.m.
In October, the U.S. Attorney charged Juan Espinoza Martinez with a bogus charge of offering a bounty to kill Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino. The government circulated false information that Mr. Espinoza Martinez was a Latin King gang member who was offering up to $10,000.00 for Bovino's mur... More
60 Years of Housing Activism: MLK Jr. & the Chicago Freedom Movement
University of Chicago, Ida Noyes Hall, Cloister Club, 1212 E. 59th St, Chicago
Feb. 19, 2026, 5:30 p.m.
It’s been exactly 60 years since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his family moved to the North Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago, with a sharp focus on a discriminatory and unaffordable housing crisis. A stellar panel of journalists, scholars, activists and stakeholders reflect on this legacy, and wh... More
Artist Talk with Yohance Lacour
Co-Prosperity, 3219 S. Morgan St, Chicago
Feb. 19, 2026, 5 p.m. - Feb. 19, 2026, 7 p.m.
Peabody Award & Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist. This year, we’re launching the Podcast Lab, a new program for advanced media artists ages 18-25. Led by Peabody Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Yohance Lacour (You Didn’t See Nothin), the Podcast Lab is a 6-month program in which fo... More
Lessons From Minnesota
Virtual
Feb. 19, 2026, 1 p.m.
We’re so inspired by the organized strength in Minnesota. From waging the first general strike in decades to building hyperlocal ICE defense networks, we can learn so much from the diversity of tactics that organizers in Minnesota are using to protect each other. It’s on us to take the Lessons from ... More