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Chicago chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace. Solidarity forever! linktr.ee/jvpchicago JVP Action is now doing business as JVP, as a 501c4. Our 501c3 work continues in JVP Lab.

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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
My new piece in Jacobin on “the Jewish left after Oct 7th.” The Jewish establishment expected unity & nationalism, & received instead a v public fight not only about Gaza but the nature of Zionism itself, w Jewish V for Peace emerging as one of the important organizations on the US left today
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Bend the Arc: Jewish Action @bendthearc.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Congress is negotiating the budget this week, with the vote deadline coming up fast on Jan. 30. To honor Renee Nicole Good and all who have lost their lives at the hands of ICE and CBP brutality, we are called to action and to demand justice. Tell your members of Congress: No more funding for ICE.
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Billions of dollars for ICE?? Take action now
Billions of dollars for ICE?? Take action now
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 12/01/2026
Despite a ceasefire that began on October 10, the Israeli army continues daily attacks on the enclave.
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Israeli quadcopter kills three in Gaza's Khan Younis; police chief slain
Despite a ceasefire that began on October 10, the Israeli army continues daily attacks on the enclave.
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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
An antisemitic conspiracy theorist torches the same historic Mississippi synagogue the KKK bombed in the 1960s. He said online he wanted to destroy the “synagogue of satan.” www.cnn.com/2026/01/11/u...
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FBI: Arson suspect admitted to starting fire at Mississippi’s largest synagogue ‘due to building’s Jewish ties’ | CNN
The suspect in a fire at a prominent Jackson, Mississippi, synagogue, confessed to starting the blaze, according to a criminal complaint released by the FBI.
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
📢 No to genocide. No to war. No to ICE. Trillions of dollars poured into occupying communities from DC to Palestine, Chicago to Venezuela while people suffer, starving, unable to make rent or get medical treatment.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 08/01/2026
Live coverage: Thousands of people are attending a vigil near the scene of the fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis. Vigils are also being held in Duluth and Mankato. Continuing coverage: bit.ly/3MMvefi 📷️ Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 16/12/2025
Ending 2025 with the grounded sense of hope I picked up in Chicago, as told here:
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Inside Chicago’s Neighborhood ICE Resistance
Residents have organized a formidable network to protect immigrant communities from Trump’s brutal deportation program. Their efforts are making a genuine difference.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 20/10/2025
Israel has killed nearly 100 Palestinians and wounded at least 230 since the 'ceasefire' went into effect on October 10.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 18/10/2025
“They’re Not Welcome” @dannypostel.bsky.social reports from neighborhoods across Chicago, where he spoke with teams of rapid responders who are protecting residents and challenging Trump’s attempted occupation by fighting fear through solidarity. inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...
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“They’re Not Welcome”: How Chicago Residents Are Resisting Trump’s ICE Invasion of the City
As ICE wreaks chaos and violence in neighborhoods across Chicago, teams of rapid responders are protecting residents and challenging Trump’s attempted occupation by fighting fear through solidarity.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 08/10/2025
NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility. Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying. All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...
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Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago
(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...
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JVP Chicago @jvp-chicago.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
yasher koach to our beloved comrades at broadview today. from illinois to gaza, all borders will fall!
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I’m on the ground at a prayer vigil near the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago.
Crowd of protesters pray together.
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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 03/10/2025
Anti-Zionist activists gather at the Gaza fence in solidarity with the Sumud Flotilla and the people of Gaza. Videos by Oren Ziv, in partnership with Local Call. #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #globalsumudflotilla
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Rabbis for Ceasefire @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
The JewsforFoodAidforPeopleInGaza campaing is so so so close to reaching the $180,000 goal for our High Holiday Tzedakah campaign before Yom Kippur begins. If you haven't yet please give now! givebutter.com/FoodAidTzeda...
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza. Israel seems to be intercepting right now. All eyes needed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...
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24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA
YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla
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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
As we prepare for Yom Kippur, @jfrejnyc.bsky.social ED Audrey Sasson & Rabbi Avigayil Halperin study several Jewish texts, exploring what teshuvah looks like for the crime of crimes, and what accountability could mean for complicit Jewish leadership. Study guide also available at the link.
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Is It Possible to Atone for Genocide?
An investigation through Jewish text on responsibility and culpability in the face of mass death.
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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
one of the frontlines to democracy exists in Broadview, IL. if you're white like me and think you would have had the courage to resist Jim Crow, or if you think you would have stood with your favorite historical figure resisting oppression, guess what Chicago, you have an opportunity to show us. 🧵
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JVP Chicago @jvp-chicago.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Today is Tzom Gedaliah. If it’s your custom to give tzedakah on fast days, or on the High Holy Days in general, please consider supporting the Jews For Food Aid fundraiser to keep the Gaza Soup Kitchen open through Yom Kippur. givebutter.com/FoodAidTzedakah
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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
ICE is terrorizing my neighborhood (Pilsen) and so many others in Chicagoland. There have been sightings and abductions everyday. Please support our rapid response efforts: bit.ly/punofundraiser
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PUÑO Fundraiser
Pilsen Defense & Access is launching a fundraiser through the end of Hispanic Heritage month, with 100% of funds raised going to PUÑO! PUÑO (Pilsen Unidos por Nuestro Orgullo) works to protect our...
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
This year, may the shofar be a wake-up call for all. As we enter 5786, our commitment to justice is greater than ever.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 11/09/2025
Far-right Rep. Lauren Boebert added an amendment to the Pentagon budget that targets the BDS movement against Israel.
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The House Just Passed a Bill Punishing “Politically Motivated” Boycotts of Israel
Far-right Rep. Lauren Boeberg added an amendment to the Pentagon budget that targets the BDS boycott movement against Israel.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 29/08/2025
Israel has begun the “initial stages” of its siege on Gaza City, declaring the capital city a “dangerous combat zone” and ending its daytime pauses for the supposed purpose of allowing the passage of humanitarian aid, despite a famine declaration across the area last week.
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Israel Announces Total Siege of Gaza City, Declaring Entire Area “Combat Zone”
The announcement comes a week after the UN-backed declaration of famine in Gaza City.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Last night, about 60 Chicago activists and organizers gathered to discuss Trump's threatened military occupation of our city. Our convo centered around a worksheet that some friends and I put together this week—a tool that can help us build and strengthen local networks of support and protection.
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Mapping Community Defense and Care in Our Neighborhoods
This worksheet can help us prepare for Trump's military interventions at the neighborhood level.
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marxuckerberg @marxuckerberg.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
New by me in Midwest Socialist: Did you know that Illinois has an extremist pro-Israel law on the books? Cause we do, and we have a unique opportunity to repeal it. Read at the link below. midwestsocialist.com/2025/08/20/n...
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Where are the big names that proclaim themselves as brave, bold, as telling things as they are? The network figureheads, the Washington mainstays? Israeli forces have killed some 245 journalists in the past 22 months. Journalists who were also people, just like anyone else, and who had to become bigger than life, in order to justify themselves to viewers thousands of miles away. People who had been forced every single day to report on the devastation of their own land, their own families. People who would cover an airstrike that killed their children and, by sheer necessity, continue to report on the next strike, in the pursuit of convincing the world to act, of the hope of tomorrow being different.

How many murdered Palestinian journalists will it take for the mainstream press’s cowardly fever to break?
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quiet enough @quietenough.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
"Oh mute world, look"
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Political Research Associates @praeyesright.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
PRA’s @benlorber8.bsky.social dives into how Heather Johnston, a little-known Christian Zionist from Alabama, organized the recent congressional visit to the West Bank and why operatives like her shouldn’t be ignored by mainstream media. Read the full article @religiondispatches.org: bit.ly/3URGcRa
Who is Heather Johnston?
From Media Fail to Note Christian Zionist Operative Who Organized Congressional Visit to West Bank by Ben LorberHeather Johnston runs a number of pro-Israel organizations from her home base in Alabama, including the US Israel Educational Association (USIEA) and the National Leadership Center (NLC), a 130-acre ‘Biblical’ retreat center in Ariel visited by the elected officials. For Christian Zionists like Johnston, the creation (or as they would call it, the ‘re-establishment’) of the state of Israel in 1948 represents a partial fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. But it’s just the prelude. They yearn for a spiritual awakening among Israeli Jews, as a further sign of the fast-approaching Messianic End Times. Like many in the NAR, Johnston regularly charges Christian Zionists to be “intercessors” and “watchmen on the walls” in prayer and support for Israel. This Congressional visit was part of an internationally-coordinated Christian Zionist strategy long in the making whose connections are everywhere in the US pro-Israel movement. Unfortunately, since they’re often overlooked by major media their influence can be difficult to spot.
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Center for Jewish Nonviolence @cjnv.org · 08/08/2025
On Aug. 7 a Awdah was finally buried in Umm al Kheir, but the situation in Masafer Yatta is dire. The community calls on Israel to: 1. Assure the safety of communities in Masafer Yatta facing the threats of lethal state and settler violence. 2. Bring Yinon Levy to justice for the murder of Awdah.
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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
“This is a working-class issue. And as a labor leader, it is our responsibility to be the shield of the working class. An injury to one is an injury to all, and that doesn’t exclude Palestinians.” www.democracynow.org/2025/8/5/chr...
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Labor Leader Chris Smalls Describes Israeli Arrest & Assault After Military Raids Gaza Flotilla
Former Amazon Labor Union President Chris Smalls joins us for one of his first interviews since he returned to the United States after he was beaten, arrested and detained by the Israeli military for ...
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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
My latest @religiondispatches.org - GOP leader Mike Johnson visited the West Bank yesterday & proclaimed support for Israeli annexation. But few noticed the Christian Zionist operative who has arranged trips like his for decades, driven by Biblical prophecy religiondispatches.org/media-fail-t...
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Media Fail to Note Christian Zionist Operative Who Organized Congressional Visit to West Bank
Yesterday, House Speaker Mike Johnson, the third-highest ranking US official, visited the Israeli settlement of Ariel, deep in the occupied West Bank, to pledge support for full Israeli annexation of ...
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Na'amod @naamoduk.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
🚨 JUSTICE FOR AWDAH - DEMAND HIS BODY IS RETURNED TO UMM AL-KHEIR 🚨 The women of Umm al-Kheir – led by Awdah’s mother, wife and sister – are on hunger strike, demanding Israel release his body so that he can be buried in the village where he was born. ➡️ actionnetwork.org/letters/brin...
Demand Justice for Awdah: Tell David Lammy and Hamish Falconer to demand Israel return Awdah's body
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Center for Jewish Nonviolence @cjnv.org · 04/08/2025
On Thursday July 31st, more than 60 women in the Palestinian village of Umm al Khair, in the Southern West Bank initiated a hunger strike to demand the return of the body of community leader Awdah Hathaleen
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Truthout @truthout.org · 01/08/2025
The family of a Palestinian American child who was 15 at his time of arrest are begging for his release from Israeli prison, where he has been held for nearly six months in pre-trial detention over allegations of throwing rocks.
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Israel Is Imprisoning Florida-Born Cousin of American Slain by Settlers
Israeli officials have barred the 16-year-old from contacting his family for months as they hold him without trial.
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Center for Jewish Nonviolence @cjnv.org · 01/08/2025
How do we face Tisha B’Av, when we’ve been in a period of mourning for so long already? How do we connect to ancient pain, when there is brand-new suffering every day? Read it now: bit.ly/tb5785
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Center for Jewish Nonviolence @cjnv.org · 31/07/2025
BREAKING: The Women of Umm Al-Kheir Go on Hunger Strike - Today (July 31), more than seventy women, ranging in age from 13 to over 70, from the village of Umm al-Kheir in Masafer Yatta, decided to begin a hunger strike immediately
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Truthout @truthout.org · 29/07/2025
Israeli soldiers raided a tent set up for mourning Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen on Tuesday as his killer, an Israeli settler infamous for terrorizing Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, was released by an Israeli court.
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“No Other Land” Contributor’s Killer Released as Israeli Soldiers Raid Mourners
A judge deemed Awdah Hathaleen’s killer, who reportedly said “I’m glad I did it,” as not dangerous enough for detention.
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Abby Chava Stein @abbystein.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
I just got out after 7+ hours in US Capitol Police custody. Seeing all your love and messages. Keep fighting. Keep screaming. More to come. 🫂❤️‍🩹
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Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Awdah was also a guide to foreigners, many of them Jewish, who come to learn about the occupation. I met him in 2018 and, as others have said, he had the grace & welcoming nature totally beyond what he had suffered & was facing. Today a settler murders him & then the military invades his village.
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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 28/07/2025
Our colleague and longtime +972 Magazine contributor Awdah Hathaleen was shot dead in a settler attack on his village, Umm al-Khair, in Masafer Yatta. Read Awdah's contributions to +972 Magazine through the link: www.972mag.com/writer/awdah...
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 25/07/2025
Israel’s starvation policy has killed 9 more Palestinians in the last 24 hours, including 2 children — bringing the total death toll from hunger to 122 since October 7, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. Among the dead are at least 83 children.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 21/07/2025
Activists say they have hit a turning point in the Palestine solidarity movement and are trying to integrate as many tactics as possible to end U.S. complicity in Israeli violence. “The genocide is happening at the same time that there’s less and less attention being paid to it.”
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Nearly 2 Years Into Gaza Genocide, US Activists Escalate Their Resistance
Activists are diversifying their tactics, holding hunger strikes and more to demand an end to U.S. aid to Israel.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 21/07/2025
Alex de Waal has worked on humanitarian causes across the globe for over 40 years. “There is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.”
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Waging Nonviolence @wagingnonviolence.org · 10/07/2025
For 18 days, six members of @jvp-chicago.bsky.social led a hunger strike that helped re-center Gaza in the public discourse and pressure elected officials.
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No ordinary solidarity — inside Chicago’s hunger strike for Gaza
For 18 days, six members of JVP-Chicago led a hunger strike that helped re-center Gaza in the public discourse and pressure elected officials.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 10/07/2025
In addition to the sweep at MacArthur Park in LA, community leaders in Chicago are expressing outrage after federal immigration forces showed up at the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture and refused to identify themselves.
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From LA to Chicago, Latinx Communities Mount a Defense Against ICE Attacks
This week saw federal agents descend on a popular LA park and a Chicago museum in two spectacles of intimidation.
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JVP Chicago @jvp-chicago.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
DAY 18 UPDATE: Today, 2 of our Jewish hunger strikers went to @SenDuckworth’s office to demand a meeting. Instead of hearing our demands that the U.S. #StopArmingIsrael, Senator Duckworth chose to call the cops on her own constituents. Undeterred, we continue to demand #ArmsEmbargo NOW!
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DOGE mag @dogemag.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
2/ Intro messages at #Socialism2025 Opening Plenary: *Masking at the gathering, in solidarity with those who can't safely attend otherwise; COVID isn't over. * @jvp-chicago.bsky.social‬ members are on day 18 of zero-calorie hunger strike demanding USA stop sending Israel weapons, and allow aid in.
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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Downstairs there is a solidarity rally with other hunger strikers and supporters. They also start calling Senator Duckworth’s office to demand fair treatment and a meeting to discuss the devastation of Gaza.
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JVP Chicago @jvp-chicago.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
BREAKING: Eight JVP members are being arrested by DHS, two on their 18th day of hunger strike, after refusing to leave Senator Tammy Duckworth’s Chicago office and calling for an end to U.S. weapons to Israel.
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JVP Chicago @jvp-chicago.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
HAPPENING NOW: JVP Chicago hunger strikers on their 18th day without food are outside Senator Tammy Duckworth’s Chicago Office, calling for an end to U.S. weapons to Israel.
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