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Indivisible Greater West Loop @indivisiblegwlchi.org · 24d

🇲🇽 Viva México! @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social and IGWL celebrated at the 26th St. Mexican Independence Day Parade in Little Village — honoring culture, community, and standing in solidarity with our neighbors. ❤️💚🤍

🔗 Resources to monitor ICE:

tinyurl.com/SALUTEinEngl...
tinyurl.com/SALUTEinSpan...

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Indivisible Greater West Loop @indivisiblegwlchi.org · Aug 17

Texas Dems! 🔥💙👏

Megan @meganquitefrankly.bsky.social · Aug 17

Today @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social rallied with @texasdemocrats.bsky.social to thank them for their bravery and unity. I left with a reminder that there are more of us fighting to save democracy than trying to tear it down. Thank you, Texas Dems! 🫶🔥✊

Long banner that says Rise Up Fight Back on the front line of a protest march.

Two women in orange vests smiling at a protest.

Protesters in front of a stage with signs.

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Megan @meganquitefrankly.bsky.social · Aug 17

Today @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social rallied with @texasdemocrats.bsky.social to thank them for their bravery and unity. I left with a reminder that there are more of us fighting to save democracy than trying to tear it down. Thank you, Texas Dems! 🫶🔥✊

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · Aug 11

Thanks to all who joined in Chicago's Unite for Trans Youth Lives rally! With so many institutions caving to Trump admin's harmful demands, we must defend trans youth and their families. We're proud to stand with @transupfrontil.com #BraveSpaceAlliance #EqualityIL #ChicagoTherapyCollective

Photo showing all-ages crowd of people at Chicago rally for trans youth lives. People in front hold a large banner with messages of hope written on it

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · Aug 10

🏥 Illinois is a sanctuary state for transgender rights — yet major institutions are walking back care and leaving families in crisis. We stand with partners fighting for trans youth and trans rights.

🖍 At today's rally in Chicago, people left messages for hope and strength:

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · Aug 10

Protect trans youth lives! Indivisible Chicago proudly stands with our partners for trans rights: @transupfrontil.com #BraveSpaceAlliance #EqualityIllinois #ChicagoTherapyCollective

Two women hold signs at an outdoor rally. One sign says Protect trans youth. Yes other says trans kids matter.

Messages written on paper at rally: for example: You are loved. Be you and bloom

An Indivisible Chicago leaders in a yellow marshal vest writes a message on the paper banner: love and resist

Two people at a rally, one of them in a yellow marshal vest

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Indivisible Greater West Loop @indivisiblegwlchi.org · Jul 24

👋 We’re just getting started at Indivisible Greater West Loop, and we’re excited to start connecting with you.

📆 Join one of our Meet & Greet events in August—come say hi, connect with neighbors, and learn how you can get involved.

👉 Join our mailing list at bit.ly/IGWL2025 for the details!

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Megan @meganquitefrankly.bsky.social · Jul 5

Very proud to launch this project. In the West Loop area? Join us! www.indivisiblegwlchi.org

Indivisible Greater West Loop @indivisiblegwlchi.org · Jul 5

Hi! We’re a new chapter of @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social, and we’re excited to meet you. In the West Loop/Near West Side area and want to take action to defend democracy? Give us a follow, then check out www.indivisiblegwlchi.org to join our mailing list. Stay tuned for more about our launch!

Indivisible Greater West Loop

Welcome to Indivisible Greater West Loop! We're a neighborhood chapter of the Indivisible Chicago Alliance. Join your West Loop area neighbors to find community, build power, take action, and make pro...

www.indivisiblegwlchi.org

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Megan @meganquitefrankly.bsky.social · Jul 4

Join the nationwide movement to protect freedom, equality, and democracy. weholdtruths.com/privacy

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Indivisible Downtown Chicago @indivisible-dt-chi.bsky.social · Jul 2

📣2 WEEKS AWAY! Join us for the first event in our Change Starts Here panel series on July 15!

Hear from:

🎤 IL State Sen. Lakesia Collins
🎤 Chicago City Clerk Anna Valencia
🎤 Robin Dusek, Policy Director @shevotesil.bsky.social
🎤 Opening remarks by Skye Perryman, CEO @democracyforward.org

Change Starts Here: Building Power in Illinois & Chicago (Panel #1 of 2 by Indivisible Downtown) · Indivisible Chicago

**Join Indivisible Downtown Chicago for the first event in our Change Starts Here Speaker Series, focused on how Illinois and Chicago leaders are protecting rights and expanding justice across our com...

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · Jun 7

❌👑 Trump wants a $100M birthday parade … we’re giving him WE THE PEOPLE!!! ✊🎂🎁✊

🇺🇸 Our country, our flag, our Capitol and our military -They belong to ALL of us!!! ✊

📍 Join us on June 14th at Daley Plaza in Chicago: link in our bio!

❌ 👑 OR find a No Kings rally near you: www.nokings.org

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · May 28

🦼✊👩‍🦽 THIS THURS, May 29, 1-3pm, Federal Plaza, 50 W Adams: DISABILITY DEMO RALLY!!

Access Living will host a disability rally w/ speeches & street theater to DEMOlish attacks on Medicaid, housing, Social Security, veteran services, more. Disability is part of our DEMOcracy! INFO: tinyurl.com/Demo529

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Indivisible Chicago Northwest @indivisiblechicagonw.org · May 19

So proud of our new Parents Committee's first family-friendly protest event!

We held a "Play-in" at Portage Park with signs, Project #Mailstorm letters, and lots of fun kids activities.

We're committed to providing accessible ways for families to fight back.

@indivisiblechicago.bsky.social

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · May 8

🏳️‍🌈 Letting our legislators know that LGBTQ+ voices matter! Indivisible Chicago & Indivisible Downtown Chicago were proud to join up with Equality Illinois for LGBTQ+ Advocacy Day in our state capital, Springfield IL. @indivisible-dt-chi.bsky.social

Eight people wearing Equality Illinois t-shirts poses and smile at an indoor setting. Two are wearing Indivisible Chicago hats.

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Megan @meganquitefrankly.bsky.social · May 8

Let’s go!!

Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · May 8

❌👑 In the United States, we don’t put up with would-be kings. Join Indivisible Chicago and our partner organizations for a rally and march in downtown Chicago as we come together to say NO KINGS!

Sat. June 14th, 12:00-2:00pm, Daley Plaza. Info + sign-up:

No Kings Rally and March · Indivisible Chicago

In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings. Join Indivisible Chicago and our partner organizations for a rally and march in downtown Chicago as we come together to say NO KINGS! This national d...

www.mobilize.us

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · May 6

🛑 STOP TRUMP'S CRUELTY. We're here getting out the message from Chicago's North Ave Bridge over DuSable Lake Shore Drive. Join our work at indivisiblechicago.com! #VisibilityBrigade #IndivisibleChicagoAlliance

People standing on a bridge over Chicago's DuSable Lake Shore Drive with large messages saying Stop Trump's Cruelty and Indivisible Chicago

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · Apr 24

Now is the moment. Call your elected officials. Demand they speak up. We say the names of the disappeared, and they must, too. When we stand together, we are stronger than fear, louder than hate, bigger than their MAGA greed. Courage is contagious. The streets are calling. Are you ready to answer?

A woman in a shirt that says Resist speaks into a microphone in front of the Indivisible Chicago banner at Federal Plaza. Photo by Paul Goyette

A woman speaks into a microphone in front of a banner that says Indivisible Chicago and the red Calder sculpture in Federal Plaza. She is surrounded by people holding tombstone-shaped protest signs that say things like R.I.P. science and research, R.I. P. free speech, et cetera. Photo by Paul Goyette

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · Apr 24

People are being disappeared into foreign prisons, a threat to anyone who dares to dissent or defy MAGA’s twisted vision of who belongs in our country, says Betty Alzamora, Indivisible Chicago. Join us in the streets. Share the truth. Protect our neighbors. Create communities of care. COURAGE!

People dressed in black stand in Chicago's Federal Plaza holding signs that say Resist. Act with courage. Speak truth. Protect our communities. Speak up. Rise up. Photo by Paul Goyette

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · Apr 24

The Trump regime aims to kill our democracy and people's rights & freedoms: free speech, free press, separation of powers, equity, public services, vaccines, & so much more. At our protest today in Chicago, we showed how we can fight back to save rights, freedoms, and lives!
📷 @pgoyette.bsky.social

Photo showing a man at an outdoor protest holding a sign shaped like a tombstone that says R.I.P. free press. Photo by Paul Goyette

At an outdoor protest, a group of people old tombstone-shaped signs. One person holds up her sign, which says R.I.P. human rights. Photo by Paul Goyette

Photo of people at an outdoor protest, dressed in black and holding tombstone-shaped signs. In view are the signs R.I.P. free speech, R.I.P. separation of powers, R.I.P. academic freedom. Photo by Paul Goyette

Photo of people dressed in black at a rally at Chicago's Federal Plaza. They are lying down and and holding tombstone-shaped protest signs that say things like R.I.P. free speech, R.I.P. independent courts, R.I.P. human rights et cetera. Photo by Paul Goyette

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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · Apr 21

🛑❗️ Wed, April 23, 5:30 pm, Federal Plaza: STREET THEATER. Join Indivisible Chicago to call out how Trump regime & MAGA are trying to kill our democracy. Let's show we'll stop them!

We'll use street theater + our voices to defend our democracy, our communities, our freedoms. SEE YOU WED. Info:

Stop Trump From Killing Democracy · Indivisible Chicago

Join Indivisible Chicago at Federal Plaza on Wednesday, April 23rd at 5:30 as we call out the many ways that the Trump regime and MAGA right are trying to kill our democracy -- and make it clear that ...

www.mobilize.us

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Megan @meganquitefrankly.bsky.social · Apr 20

Back on the streets this weekend with @50501chicago.bsky.social. 🙌💙

A man holding a protest sign in front of his face. The sign has a cartoon of Donald Trump with a crown and says “the lyin’ king”

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Indivisible Downtown Chicago @indivisible-dt-chi.bsky.social · Apr 16

📢Today - Tax Day! - we took to the streets with @peopleslobbyusa.bsky.social to say 🗣️TAX THE RICH!🗣️

⁉️Did you know Illinois has one of the most regressive tax systems in the Midwest?

👉 Tell your Illinois state legislators to tax billionaires, not working families.

People gathered at a protest with signs, one of them shaped like a Cybertruck that says Drive Out Musk.

Two people holding Cybertruck signs. One says STOP TRUMP. One says Trump=Tyrant.

People gathered at a protest with signs.

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Megan @meganquitefrankly.bsky.social · Apr 16

‼️Before 2015, yesterday would have been administration-ending. Impeached, denounced, moving on, end of story. We can stop pretending this is a President upholding his oath of office. We are all at risk.

‼️If you are a human being who cares about other human beings, please speak out.

An image with text that reads: Kilmar Abrego Garcia. A Maryland father, living legally in the U.S.

He had a court order protecting him from deportation, yet he was sent to a notorious gang prison in El Salvador.

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously said he must be returned, but the Trump administration is refusing.

An image with text that reads: This is a constitutional crisis, and we cannot stay silent.

Trump also suggested he wants to send U.S. citizens to foreign prisons:

“You’ve got to build five more [prisons]” for “homegrowns” - Americans accused of crimes.

An image with text that reads: The U.S. government is defying court orders. They’re detaining individuals without due process.

This isn’t just about deportation — it’s about the erosion of justice.

If we normalize this, there’s no end. If they can do this to Kilmar, they can do it to anyone.

An image with text that reads: What can we do?

Say his name. Tell his story.
Call your reps. Demand Congress intervene IMMEDIATELY.
Know the facts. Kilmar was here legally. This isn’t just an immigration issue.
Organize. Protest. Demand accountability.

This is not a policy disagreement. This is a fight for our democracy. We cannot look away.

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indivisnaperville.bsky.social @indivisnaperville.bsky.social · Apr 12

Join us on #TaxDay2025 to say #StopTheCuts and #NoKingsInAmerica

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Megan @meganquitefrankly.bsky.social · Apr 12

Quite frankly, this is a @govpritzker.illinois.gov stan account