Northside Action For Justice

Congratulations to Marc Kaplan for being honored with the Voice of the People’s Sweet Home Uptown Champion award!
Marc Kaplan, one of the founding and leadership team members of Northside Action for Justice (NA4J) has been honored as one of the Voice of the People’s Sweet Home Uptown Champions. Kaplan began organizing in Chicago in the early 1970s, where he helped build grassroots movements rooted in racial, economic, and social justice. His organizing has impacted many lives, with work ranging from the Black Panther Party’s survival programs, tenant organizing, youth engagement, and political and legal advocacy, and of course, housing justice. We are proud of you, Marc!

Join us in a discussion about SNAP and Medicaid at tomorrow’s NA4J meeting. All are welcome!
Hybrid meeting: zoom link:bit.ly/na4jmeeting or in person 1020 W Bryn Mawr Ave.

Join us at 12 pm today!

Join us tomorrow for our monthly meeting and learn more about the Weiss Hospital struggle and how you can support!
hybrid meeting - zoom link: bit.ly/na4jmeeting
Or in person at the Edgewater Presbyterian Church
Saturday August 9 at 10 am

TODAY!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Friday, August 7, 2025
Contact: Marc Kaplan, Northside Action 4 Justice, 773-407-2001

ADVISORY: Weiss Hospital Staff and Community Rally to Mourn Weiss Hospital Closure, Call for its Reopening

Chicago, Illinois –– Weiss Memorial Hospital plans to shutter its ER at 7am on Friday, August 8, 2025. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a notice of termination, effective this Saturday, August 9 due to cited concerns around nursing services, emergency protocols, and physical environment at Weiss. Patients and staff deserve high quality healthcare conditions. With the hospital closing, the thousands of patients and hundreds of staff who depend on Weiss Memorial Hospital for their healthcare and livelihoods will be hung out to dry. This is part of a larger story of disinvestment, corporate neglect of community, safety-net hospitals like Weiss and private, for-profit speculation in Uptown.

WHO: Weiss Emergency Room doctors, nurses and staff; state and local elected officials; community members; Northside Action 4 Justice, Vietnamese Association of Illinois, ONE Northside and other community organizations

WHEN: Friday, August 8, 2025 at 1pm

WHERE: outside the shuttered Weiss Emergency Room (on Clarendon)

SPEAKERS: list in formation

WHAT: Press conference, rally, and mourning with doctors, nurses, hospital staff and community members holding signs

Vietnamese Association of Illinois
ONE Northside