Here at Chicago City Council as they vote on a #TreatmentNotTrauma working group and hold a public hearing on #BringChicagoHome Elena Gormley from @ccwchicago speaks to the need for expanded public mental health clinics and a non-police emergency response system for people experiencing mental health crises. The time for #TreatmentNotTrauma is now!

Here at the Westside #BringChicagoHome Town Hall hosted by @ChiHomeless @CTULocal1, UWF, 290 IPO and others. 🧵 If we are going to seriously address the homelessness crisis in this city, we need dedicated progressive revenue to fund permanent housing and supportive services!

BREAKING NEWS: A departmental breakdown shared with aldermen last week shows that, of the $403 million in discretionary federal funds provided to the city COVID-19 direct response, more than $280 million (!!!) went to the Chicago Police Department. #CARESNotCops #RightToRecovery Comparatively, the Department of Public Health received just over $18 million; the Office of Emergency Management received just over $8 million; the Department of Family and Support Services got less than $200,000. The Office for People with Disabilities got only $2,000.

HAPPENING NOW: community members, labor leaders and elected officials call on the Lightfoot administration to #DenyThePermit and #StopGeneralIron from further polluting the southeast side. fb.watch/3GseynWx-t/ Chuck Stark, one of the hunger strikers who teaches @ Washington H.S. opens up the presser by announcing 70 teachers are participating in a day-long fast in solidarity. Mr. Stark is on day 12 of starving himself in order to demand the city take action against environmental racism