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1pm in Chicago--
Feminist solidarity rally outside the Mexican Consulate.
The rate of femicide has doubled in Mexico over the last 5 years, with widespread police corruption implicated. On Sept 7th, activists there seized control of a govt building.
#chicagoprotests
Feminist solidarity rally outside the Mexican Consulate.
The rate of femicide has doubled in Mexico over the last 5 years, with widespread police corruption implicated. On Sept 7th, activists there seized control of a govt building.
#chicagoprotests
Tools of the day: chalk and mud.
"Fuck Silence" painted on the side of the consulate in mud.
Activists staging a die-in in the middle of the intersection of Ashland and Adams. They're wearing trash bags to represent the Black and brown women murdered by an unknown serial killer in Chicago.
Police just arrived and are asking some to move to the sidewalk.
Police just arrived and are asking some to move to the sidewalk.
Chicago police are using their bikes to push a group of maybe 50, mostly young women, out of the street.
They're trying to occupy the intersection outside the Mexican Consulate to protest femicide.
They couldn't start their die-in before police started closing in.
They're trying to occupy the intersection outside the Mexican Consulate to protest femicide.
They couldn't start their die-in before police started closing in.
Cops just attacked.
Chaotic right now. Trying to update.
Cw violence
Sorry I can't blur right now but am trying to be sensitive, it's insane, cops chasing and arresting these women, I am struggling not to fucking lose it
#chicagoprotests
Sorry I can't blur right now but am trying to be sensitive, it's insane, cops chasing and arresting these women, I am struggling not to fucking lose it
#chicagoprotests
Activists here are absolutely shaken, keep crying out "you're hitting women, you're hitting women"
