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Demonstration Against Ehud Olmert's Speech at University of Chicago

Chicago IJAN co-sponsored and participated in the highly successful counter-protest to Ehud Olmert's speech at University of Chicago. Click here to check out the amazing video of this event. This action received substantial media attention both locally and within Israel.

Chicago Dyke March

We marched to celebrate dyke, queer, and trans visibility and resilience. The Dyke March took place in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood which has a fierce history of immigrant, labor, anti-gentrification and queer activism - we drew connections between the struggle for Palestinian liberation and the struggles being fought by companer@s in Pilsen against displacement, gentrification, and oppressive border and immigration control.

Viva Palestina Supper Club

Supper Club Fundraiser for Viva Palestina featuring poems, reflection, and a reading by our own Noah Lepawsky from his play about his time in Palestine. Viva Palestina succeeded in its goals to:

1) Distribute necessary medical aid to the Palestinian people,

2)Highlight the inhumanity of the continued siege of this devastatedarea, and

3) Amplify the shift in public policy and growing solidarityof people around the world towards greater support of the Palestinianstruggle.