"Ignorance is longer an excuse. Fear is no longer an excuse. 'I didn't know' is no longer an option."
Torrential Rain Energizes Trans Rights Marchers On Day Of Visibility
Janelle Finton/Kellin Hanas’ Trumpetpalooza @Fulton Street Collective, Or, What Is This Feeling? (It’s Two Trumpets)
"I want you to look to your left," Hanas told the crowd in a sassy-yet-serious voice as she wore a tiara, pianist Nicholas Olynciw vamping behind her, "Do it. Look to your left. Now you look to your right. What do you see? A person? No, you see a friend...I think the spirit of friendship is here with us tonight."
Chicago Ukrainians Rally Less Than 48 Hours After Trump Berates Zelenskyy
"Thanks to all American supporters. Without them, we will probably be defeated in three days...but as we got help, we really appreciate that," a young, local chant leader told me. "When the conference [between Trump and Zelenskyy] happened...we couldn't stand aside. We will stand for our rights."
Little Village Protests ICE Raids With Rally And March
“The fight - it is in the [Chicago City] Council, it is in the courts, but it’s in the streets. It is in our neighborhoods to make sure that we don’t allow these cowards to come and terrorize us.”
Young Bolingbrook Residents Protest ICE Amid Local Raids
"[ICE is] targeting warehouses…‘Oh they’re just supporting criminals!’ But that’s very on the contrary…they’re also deporting a lot of families in very unjust ways."
Blue Collar Jazz 