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Peace Warriors at March For Our Lives
Image description: close ups on the faces of D’Angelo McDade and Alex King, two youth activists. D’Angelo is wearing a blue hoodie and a piece of lime green tape over his mouth. Alex is mid-sentence, wearing a blue collared shirt.
Alex King & D'Angelo McDade, two Peace Warriors from Chicago's North Lawndale College Prep High School, speak at the March For Our Lives rally in Washington, DC in 2018.
Maggie at the Mall
Image description: a bird’s-eye view of a crowd of people holding posters of various colors. There are multiple American flag polls in the middle of the crowd.
Maggie from Bellingham, Washington, a survivor of the Cascade Mall shooting, was inspired to become an activist—and after proposing a local walkout, helped create Students For Action.
Laquan McDonald/Jason Van Dyke
Image description: a side-by-side photo, the left showing the shoulders-up of Jason Van Dyke, sitting in front of a brown grate with a gray jacket and a layered yellow and white shirt. The right shows the shoulders-up of Laquan McDonald, standing in front of a white background and wearing a red graduation gown and hat.
In 2014, former CPD Officer Jason Van Dyke murdered then-17-year-old Laquan McDonald. The years that followed would see this case explode into media spotlight & inspire impactful legislation.
Adam Toledo/Daunte Wright Vigil
Image description: a crowd of people holding stands stand in front of two brown buildings. In the bottom right of a photo, someone is waving a Puerto Rican flag.
After the shootings of Adam Toledo and Daunte Wright, organizers across the city organized vigils and marches in their memories, including two Columbia students, Angel Page & Isaiah Moore.
Parkland/Walkout Sequence
Image description: a black and white photo of a crowd. Everyone’s faces are facing the upper left corner of the phoot, and everyone’s fists are raised.
The shooting and killing of 17 students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida inspired students across the nation to organize and participate in gun violence prevention activism, starting with national school walkouts.
ECPS Beginnings
Image description: the logo of ECPS, which is a blue circle with the white text “Empowering communities with Public Safety” on the loop’s top and bottom. Inside the circle is a semicircle of gray rays, with silhouettes of people and two open hands in green. Next to the logo is “ECPS: Empowering Communities for Public Safety” in green, blue, and gray.
In hopes to combat brutality and the over-policing of Black and brown communities, many Chicago-based organizations joined together to pass the People's Ordinance, a community policing initiative.
Shots Fired Chicago
Image description: a crowd of people marching in the street, the camera only showing their heads. Someone is holding an American flag, someone else is holding a white poster with red letters in caps: “Stop Gun Violence.”
Gun violence in Chicago is a raging problem; there have been countless weekends with victim counts in the double-digits, even in 2021. This violence is an epidemic that must come to an end.
Tree of Life Synagogue
Image description: a view of the Tree of Life synagogue, a white building with black Hebrew text on the top corner. In front of the building is a yellow tape spread like a fence, and white Stars of David with the names of people who passed away in the shooting. Two people look at the stars and hug.
A shooter claimed 11 lives at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018 in the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in the history of the United States. Its impact is still felt to this day.
Restorative Justice
Image description: a crowd of people holding protest signs. Half of the crowd faces someone holding a megaphone.
The goal of restorative justice is to take a nonviolent approach to rehabilitating youth and adults who cause harm rather than dealing with the issues through mass incarceration and violence.
"Being Visible Is Activism"
Image description: the backs of two teens who are walking in a crowd in front of a state building. One teen has short brown hair, rainbow suspenders, and a backpack. The other person has long brown hair and a trans pride flag with the gender symbols wrapped around their back.
When you're non-binary, trans, gender non-conforming, or anywhere outside the gender binary, being visible is activism in itself—and the freedom to live loudly as yourself is one not to take for granted.
Peace Book Ordinance
Image description: a crowd of young people holding protest signs and a large black banner that reads in white and black text: Good Kids Mad City. The social media handles of the organization are on the bottom: facebook GKMC2018, Twitter CKMC18, and #GoodKidsMadCity.
The Peace Book Ordinance, created by GoodKids MadCity, is "a restorative justice violence prevention ordinance that will reduce the intracommunal killing happening in our neighborhoods."