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07/22/2013

Come join us on August 28th for the ONE Northside Open House Celebration! Join the event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/626403200711594/?ref=22

06/10/2013

Now is the time to enhance Social Security, not cut it!

Benefits are shrinking while retirement needs are growing.

01/10/2013

A little inspiration and agitation as we move forward. Please share this article.

Will we continue to accept a subservient relationship with big corporations? Or will we restructure our relationship with corporations so instead of us serving them, they begin to serve us. The question is clear. The answer is up to us.

01/04/2013

Windy City Times News - Generation Halsted: Recommendations — Nomi Michaels Devereaux, LGBTQ homeless youth advocate. Photo by Kate Sosin

11/27/2012

Please take 30 seconds to vote yes on the Capitol Fax poll asking if corporations should be required to disclose the taxes they pay to the state of Illinois! Currently 2/3 of corporations pay NO taxes to the state. Our folks are in Springfield working on passing this bill right now! Please LIKE and SHARE widely after you vote!

Just to clear up some confusion in comments, you cannot FOIA this info, it’s not publicly available to anyone and state income taxes are not broken out as a completely separate category in SEC filings.

11/19/2012

Please support LAC's work and help us end the year strong! If just 18 of you donate $20 right now, we'll break $1,000 today!

We know you have many options for your end-of-year giving, so we appreciate that you have chosen LAC. By giving to LAC you are helping to ensure that our organization can continue to fight for affordable housing, economic justice, access to healthcare and the fair treatment of transgender individual...

10/03/2012

LAC members in the 46th Ward... participate in Alderman Cappleman's participatory budget planning to determine how $1 million should be spent in the ward.

To add ONE members living in the 46th Ward:

Come take part in the neighborhood assemblies for the Participatory Budgeting process!

09/05/2012

Movement!

Windy City Times News - Chicago Police Department adopts transgender policy After more than two years of pushing by transgender-rights advocates, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) has quietly adopted a general order that mandates the respectful treatment of transgender detainees. The policy has...

05/01/2012

Check out this great article on the Crib! http://www.suntimes.com/news/steinberg/12212932-452/few-options-for-homeless-young-people-in-chicago.html #.T5_yTp2TGzU.facebook

It’s 9 p.m., and 26 young men and women have shown up at the Crib, a shelter for homeless youth in the Lake View Lutheran Church at Addison and Halsted. Which is a problem, since there is space for only 20 foam mattresses on the

02/28/2012

Save the date: LAC Action Assembly - Sunday May 6th, 2 - 3:30 pm. St. Paul's UCC on Orchard and Fullerton.

02/25/2012

Windy City Times News - Moreno to introduce transgender CPD ordinance After more than two years of pushing by local organizations, Ald. Proco Joe Moreno is poised to introduce a transgender police ordinance to the City Council next month. According to a fact sheet put out by veteran activist Rick ...