The City of Chicago is pressing criminal charges on the O'Hare 40, anti genocide protestors arrested on April 15th, Tax Day, for protesting on a highway leading to O’Hare. Having pursued these charges after the State’s Attorney dropped charges, the mayor’s administration’s retaliation on protestors, in an attempt to stifle future dissent, is an attack on free speech, assembly, and thoughtful acts of civil disobedience. This retaliation comes ahead of the DNC, to intimidate people from protesting generally, and to dissuade activists from protesting this summer with pending misdemeanor charges through the summer and setting a precedent for how future protestors will be treated.  After privately engaging the mayor's office unsuccessfully, we are now calling on Mayor Johnson’s law department to drop the charges.

Join us in taking action by contacting the mayor and your alderperson and asking them to support protestors rights in our city and pressuring the Corporation Counsel to drop the charges on the O’Hare 40 and all protestors with pending charges.