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Anti-War Committee Chicago

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Fighting against genocide and forever wars.

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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
As the U.S. refuses to comply with Iran’s 10-point plan for ceasefire,Israel continues to attack Lebanon, we must be prepared for war to resume full-scale, and hit the streets to condemn the U.S. war on Iran.
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Call Frerichs TODAY & demand he does not renew the 2 Israel bonds totalling $15m expiring Feb 1! For 17 months, thousands of IL taxpayers have called on Frerichs to divest from Israel bonds that fund the genocide of Palestine. Call & reshare today!
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Come to our meeting this Sunday 8/3 at 2pm on Zoom! All are welcome! Join us for a presentation about Syria's history of resistance against imperialism, and learn how to get involved in the movement to divest Illinois from genocide and war! Get the meeting information at bit.ly/joinantiwarchicago
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
We mobilised with Tanggol Defend Migrants campaign for the Peoples State of the Nation Address to denounce Marcos Jr selling out the Philippines to US imperialism, and the escalation of attacks against Filipino migrants! Defend Filipino Migrants Now! tinyurl.com/freetitar
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Join us to spread the word about Treasurer Frerichs investments in Israel bonds and ISBI investments in companies complicit in the occupation of Palestine. We demand IL divest now! Humboldt Park July 19th | 11 am-1 pm Meet up at the corner of California Ave & Division St
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
On July 4, as a member of the Coalition Against the Trump Agenda, we joined the masses in the People’s Independence Day March.
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
CHICAGO EMERGENCY PROTEST MONDAY 5PM Federal Plaza 🚨 The US struck 3 of Iran's nuclear sites, an outright declaration of war and escalation of the U.S.-Israel war in the broader region. To endorse, please message @AntiWarChicago or @uspcn organizations.
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
📢 NEW TIME + ADDRESS 📢 Join us at the quarterly ISBI meeting to demand that ISBI Vice-Chair and IL Treasurer Michael Frerichs divest from over 145 million dollars in Israel bonds. Join us at 160 N. La Salle Dr. at 8:00am ILLINOIS DIVEST NOW!
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
CHICAGO Emergency protest in the event of a US attack on Iran. We must make it loud & clear we do not want our gov't to be at war with Iran! We demand the U.S. stops the war immediately & respects Iran's sovereignty! We demand an end to US aid to Israel + immediate end to the genocide! #HandsOffIran
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
🚨EMERGENCY ACTION TONIGHT at 5PM! 🚨The illegal, settler-colonial occupier Israel has attacked Iran with massive missile strikes. Join us at Federal Plaza tonight at 5 PM to demand HANDS OFF IRAN! HANDS OFF GAZA! #HandsOffIran #HandsOffGaza #FreePalestine #EndUSAidtoIsrael
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
🚨EMERGENCY ACTION TONIGHT at 5PM! 🚨The illegal, settler-colonial occupier Israel has attacked Iran with massive missile strikes. Join us at Federal Plaza tonight at 5 PM to demand HANDS OFF IRAN! HANDS OFF GAZA! #HandsOffIran #HandsOffGaza #FreePalestine #EndUSAidtoIsrael
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
📢 UPDATED 📢 Join AWC at our mass meetings this May! Build a strong anti-imperialist, anti-war movement! To get involved visit bit.ly/joinantiwarchicago. Sunday 5/11 2pm at Casa Michoacán, 1638 S Blue Island Ave Sunday 5/18 2pm at Casa Michoacán with a Zoom option. Sunday 5/25 2pm at Casa Michoacán.
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Join our weekly meetings to build a strong anti-imperialist, anti-war movement here in Chicago! Visit bit.ly/joinantiwarchicago to get involved! Sun 5/4- 2pm on Zoom Sun 5/11- 2pm at Casa Michoacán, 1638 S Blue Island Ave. Sun5/18- 2pm on Zoom Sun 5/25 - 2pm at Casa Michoacán
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Public funds should not support war crimes. Treasurer Frerichs, divest from Israel now! #MichaelFrerichsDivest #ILDivestFromGenocide
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Storm @iltreasurer @mikeforillinois social media accounts to demand full divestment from Israel bonds! Access the toolkit at bit.ly/frerichsdivest
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Stop by the CATA art build to make art for the 2025 May Day week of action TODAY at 12pm (3614 W Lawrence Ave). Then head over to our weekly AWC meeting at 2pm at Casa Michoacán (1638 S Blue Island Ave)! bit.ly/joinantiwarchicago
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Join the Coalition Against the Trump Agenda & Consejo de Resistencia en Defensa del Inmigrante for this May Day week of action! We will protest in defense of our immigrant communities and for the expansion of immigrant rights, including the demand for legalization for all!
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Join Anti-War Chicago at our upcoming April meetings. It is more important than ever to get organized, find your community, and take collective action against Imperialism, war, and the US/Israel reign of terror. Together, we can make a difference and fight back against tyranny.
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
We protested the Illinois State Board of Investment (ISBI) quarterly meeting yesterday and packed the public comment to demand ISBI and its Vice Chair, State Treasurer Michael Frerichs, stop funding genocide through Israel Bonds and investments in companies complicit in the occupation of Palestine
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 21/03/2025
Happening now: outside the IL State Board of Investments meeting in downtown Chicago, activists are rallying against ISBI Treasurer & Vice Chair Michael Frerichs. Frerichs is responsible for increasing the state's investment portfolio in war weapons manufacturers like Boeing and Lockheed Martin.
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
On Tuesday we joined CJP & demonstrated outside the Zionist consulate @ 500 West Madison to voice our outrage after Israeli occupation forces disregarded the ceasefire agreement & launched a series of attacks resulting in over 400 martyrs, bombing tents with displaced people, homes, schools, & more.
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
AWC-Chicago is holding a fundraising event on 4/19 at Casa Michoacán for our future march, rally, and art build materials! Enjoy food, drinks and performances; suggested donation is $15. Help us build the anti-war movement’s momentum w/ a donation on our website or by showing up for the fundraiser!
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Join our CALL IN action! Stand in solidarity with Palestinians and demand IL State Treasurer Michael Frerichs divest Illinois taxpayer dollars from Israeli crimes! Since the start of the genocide, Frerichs has invested over $135 million in Israeli bonds, with an additional $30 million.
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Join our upcoming Sunday meetings at 2pm to get involved in the anti-imperialist, anti-war movement. Join our campaign to demand Frerichs divest our tax $ from genocide! 3/16 @ Casa Michoacán 1638 S Blue Island Ave 3/23 on Zoom bit.ly/joinantiwarchicago for more details 3/30 2pm @ Casa Michoacán
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Overwhelmed by the Trump administration chaos? Join AWC this Sunday at 2pm on Zoom to get involved in the anti-imperialist, anti-war movement in Chicago. We’re fighting to divest our taxpayer dollars from genocide and war.   Sign up at bit.ly/joinantiwarchicago for details about Sunday’s meeting.
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
JOIN US Fri, March 21 at 9am to protest the IL State Board of Investments to demand Frerichs & ISBI divest IL $ from genocide! ISBI invests in companies complicit in the occupation of Palestine & Frerichs just renewed $15mil in Israel bonds bringing IL investments in Israeli bonds over $135m.
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Anti-War Committee Chicago had an action-packed first year in our fight against the genocide of the Palestinian people by the Zionist Israeli regime. Starting with our first meeting in February 2024, we helped organize the Coalition to March on the DNC, and launched a state-wide divestment campaign.
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
AWC-Chicago is officially a member organisation of the newly established Anti-War Action Network, a progressive network of grassroots anti-war orgs around the US committed to building a broad movement opposed to the greatest cause of injustice in the world today—US imperialism!
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Join AWC this Sunday at 2pm for our weekly mass meeting via Zoom and get involved in the anti-imperialist, anti-war movement in Chicago! Hear about the people's movement to divest Illinoisan’s taxpayer dollars from genocide and war! Sign up at bit.ly/joinantiwarchicago for Sunday's meeting.
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
TODAY at 6pm, join us for a protest led by the CJP at 3760 N Broadway to protest notorious war criminal Yoav Gallant's unwelcome visit to Chicago! Gallant is the Israeli Occupation's former minister of "defense," leading the genocide of Palestinians, and is wanted by the ICC for war crimes!
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Since AWC was refounded in February 2024, we’ve broadened and deepened the anti-imperialist, anti-war movement in Chicago. This February, we will participate in the Anti-War Action Network (AWAN) Founding Conference and need your help getting our members there!
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
We carved out our message to demand divestment of Illinois public money from Israel Bonds during Sunday's art build. We will not be silent while Frerichs continues to misappropriate $120m of IL funds to defend the economic interest of an apartheid state. Keep an eye out for our art drop, Chicago!
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Join AWC Sunday 2/2 @ Casa Michoacán for an art build ahead of our public art drop to raise the demand to divest! Come @ 12pm for pt. 1 of the art build, & stay for our mass meeting @ 2pm to learn how you can join the anti-imperialist, anti-war movement! Save the date & bring a friend! #antiwar
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Anti-War Committee will have our weekly mass meeting on Zoom this Sunday at 2pm. Join us to discuss our campaign to divest our taxpayer dollars from genocide and war! Fill out our online form to get the link & get involved: bit.ly/joinantiwarchicago. See you there!
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
As we prepare for our mass show of force on Monday, January 20th, we also need to keep ourselves safe from the elements. ❄️ Our safety team will have hand warmers 🔥 available. Bundle up 🧣 inform medics or marshalls if you or others are unwell + ❄️ find tips to stay warm at protests @ bit.ly/coldaction
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Join us in-person this Sunday at 2pm at Casa Michoacán for our weekly mass meeting! Get involved in the people's movement to divest Illinoisan’s taxpayer dollars from genocide and war! For more information on how to get involved, visit bit.ly/joinantiwarchicago
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
This February, AWC will attend and speak at the Anti-War Action Network Founding Conference to coordinate our national efforts to fight the US imperialist agenda. This event is a crucial step for our Palestine solidarity work, and we need your help getting our members to the conference!
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
After 16 long months of aggression against Gaza, the Israeli occupation has finally conceded to a ceasefire deal. This marks a political and military defeat for the Israeli occupation, brought on by the steadfast Palestinian resistance and its allies in the resistance Axis. Read our full statement:
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Join us this Wed, Jan 15 to flyer for our Jan 20 protest to stop the racist & reactionary Trump Agenda! Folks will be flyering in Logan Square and Humboldt Park for a couple hours this day. Please bundle up & dress warm! Meet up @ UN35th office in Logan Square @ 1PM on Wednesday!
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Join our coalition this Tuesday, January 14th, to flyer for our January 20th protest to stop the racist and reactionary Trump Agenda! Meet up at the Kimball Brown line Stop in Albany Park at 5 PM on Tuesday!
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Yesterday, we joined the Coalition for Justice in Palestine in taking the street to demand an end to the US-backed Israeli seige on healthcare in Gaza, the immediate release of Dr. Hussam Abu-Safiyeh, and an immediate end to the ongoing genocide!
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Join AWC Chicago this Sunday at 2PM on Zoom to get engaged with other #antiwar activists! Anti-War Committee #Chicago is a mass organization fighting to #divest Illinois from genocidal Zionist investments and help push the US out of Israel. Get the meeting information at bit.ly/joinantiwarchicago
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Join Anti-War Committee alongside 60+ organizations on January 20, Inauguration day, as we stand with peoples' movements across various lines of struggle to defend immigrant rights, Black liberation, Palestinian liberation, LGBTQIA+, women's, + reproductive rights, labour rights + academic freedom!
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Help us flyer this Saturday 1/11 and get the word out for the January 20 protest to Stop the Trump Agenda! There are two flyering locations: Pilsen/Little Village 9am & broader West Side 11am. Let's build the broadest unity among peoples movements + get folks out in the streets!
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Help us build a broad and powerful anti-imperialist, anti-war movement by joining our next mass meeting in-person this Sunday at 2pm at Casa Michoacán. Fill out this form and see you on Sunday! bit.ly/joinantiwarchicago Location: 1638 S Blue Island Ave, Chicago, IL Time: 2pm
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Get invovled in the anti-imperialist, anti-war movement in Chicago! AWC will have our weekly mass meeting this Sunday at 2pm. Join us to discuss our campaign to divest our taxpayer dollars from genocide and war! Fill out our online form to get the link & get involved: bit.ly/joinantiwarchicago.
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Help us build a broad and powerful anti-imperialist, anti-war movement by joining us for marches and rallies, art builds, political education, flyering and canvassing for our divestment campaign - and more! Sign up at bit.ly/joinantiwarchicago to see how you can support in your neighbourhood.
A carousel of 5 images with text. Each image has a red, green and white color scheme, and features the Anti War Campaign Logo in the bottom right corner.
Slide 1: Get Involved with Anti War Committee Chicago, text reads: Help us build a broad and powerful anti-imperialist, anti-war movement! Regardless of your experience or skills, there is a place for you in the fight against genocide and forever wars. Swipe to see the various ways that you can get active in organizing a mass movement to drive real social change and history! Join AWC here! bit.ly/joinantiwarchicago
Slide 2: Marches and rallies, Image of a man with a megaphone in front of an Anti-War Committee banner. Behind him there are protestors, one with a handwritten sign that says “Palestinians deserve to live” above a key, and Palestinian flag. Text reads: Mass mobilisations are the way that we demonstrate a visible popular resistance to the US imperialist war machine, and they are the primary way that we build unity with the masses, struggling on various fronts, against US imperialism. We mobilise to every protest with the Chicago Coalition for Justice in Palestine and help organise and show up for protests fighting for Black liberation, workers rights, immigrant rights, LGBTQIA+ and womens' rights because we know that none of us are free until we are all free.slide 3: Art builds, Image of AWC members hand painting our canvas banner, people are wearing N95 and KN95 respirators. text reads: Creative skills are very important to our movement! Creating banners and posters helps us clearly raise
the peoples' demands to End US Aid to Israel, Divest from Genocide, and Arms Embargo Now. Painting, writing, sewing digital design, and so many other skills are necessary to elevate our campaigns and spread public awareness.slide 4: political education, Image of people holding handwritten signs at a rally, the signs say "stop the US backed genocide against gaza" and "long live Palestine" text reads: The main way to raise our collective political consciousness is through practice. By joining AWC, you can learn how to drive collective change by helping build the anti-war movement, as well as getting exposure to anti-imperialist organising through an analysis of current events, film screenings, and reading discussions at our meetings.
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Join our current campaign to divest Illinois public money from Israeli bonds by attending our upcoming meeting this Sunday at 2pm on zoom. Fill out our online form to get the link & get involved: bit.ly/joinantiwarchicago.
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Learn about our current campaign to divest Illinois taxpayer dollars from genocide and join the fight to end US imperialist involvement in the Middle East, the Philippines, and beyond! Join our mass meeting this Sunday 2pm. 2pm - 4pm at Casa Michoacán 1638 S Blue Island Ave, Chicago IL 60608
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Anti-War Committee Chicago @antiwarchicago.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
🚨 CALLING ALL ORGANISATIONS 🚨 Sign on to our letter to demand full divestment from Israeli bonds now and a cessation of any future investments into the genocide of Palestinians and the occupation of Palestinian land! Visit bit.ly/divestil4pal to sign on. #EndUSAidtoIsrael
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