FTP - Chicago

Our garden beds at the Chi Nations Youth Council garden are officially in progress! Very soon we’ll be providing our weekly food distributions with fresh produce. Growing and distributing our own food on land controlled by Indigenous communities is a political act, and one we are joyous to engage in. The South African Communist Party shares this position too: https://limpopomirror.co.za/articles/news/29080/2015-02-06/autilise-your-backyard-gardens-to-defend-the-revolutiona-sacp.

A message from our comrades in Albany Park:

Help Us Raise Funds To Save Our Organizing Space

We have 4 ongoing programs that are primarily run out of our organizing space at 3625 W Lawrence:

Food and Clothing Distribution

Our food and clothing distributions happen every Sunday at 12pm out of our storefront. We provide between 30-60 families with food and clothing every week. We offer canned, fresh, and refrigerated food to the community members who come on Sundays. Much of our clothes and food are sources from donations from supporters in the community.

English Classes

English class takes place at the storefront every Tuesday at 6pm. Community members gather for free English classes in our backroom. Our classes are open to all students and are 100% free.

Garden

We run a series of plots out of the Chi Nations Youth Council garden at Wilson and Pulaski. We bring neighbors together to help with the maintenance of the garden and bring the fruits of our labors back to the community in the form of fresh produce.

Workers Center

We are working with jornaleros to build a workers center based out of our store front. We are organizing the disparate jornaleros in our community to form a union and hiring center. Many jornaleros are often exploited by their bosses and go long periods of time without good paying work. We seek to unite and defend the rights of all workers in Chicago by asserting the legal rights of jornaleros, providing resources and support when needed, and helping connect jornaleros to employment.

We are asking all who support the work that is being done to donate what they can to save our space. We need consistent sustainable funding to continue our organizing.

Our Programs | Albany Park Organizing Committee on Patreon Official Post from Albany Park Organizing Committee