Events

Join us February 4th from 6pm – 7pm to learn more ways on how you can get involved in the fight for healthcare.

Join us for a series of meetings leading up to our big action in early March to escalate the campaign to pass the FairShare Ordinance.

Breakfast will be available at 10:30 AM and the meeting will commence at 11 AM. Please be on time, there is a parking lot beside the building.

Background: Every worker in Chicago will be getting a pay raise on July 1st thanks to the hard work of the most progressive city council we have had in decades- but unless we pass this legislation in the first quarter of 2025 Rideshare drivers will be left out in the cold and THAT AIN’T RIGHT.

We will be planning our campaign through these bi-weekly meetings and need workers to come join the fight. This is GO TIME!

Join us for a series of meetings leading up to our big action in early March to escalate the campaign to pass the FairShare Ordinance.

Breakfast will be available at 10:30 AM and the meeting will commence at 11 AM. Please be on time, there is a parking lot beside the building.

Background: Every worker in Chicago will be getting a pay raise on July 1st thanks to the hard work of the most progressive city council we have had in decades- but unless we pass this legislation in the first quarter of 2025 Rideshare drivers will be left out in the cold and THAT AIN’T RIGHT.

We will be planning our campaign through these bi-weekly meetings and need workers to come join the fight. This is GO TIME!

Rideshare drivers united in the Chicago Gig Alliance are making our final push toward the finish line! Join our car caravan on February 12 to help build up the pressure to pass our FairShare Ordinance.

We'll meet in the parking lot at the corner of Roosevelt and Canal to decorate our cars with signs, then proceed to drive together in a caravan around City Hall.

For years, we’ve watched as Uber and Lyft nickel and dime the drivers who make their shareholders rich, refusing to take drivers’ demands for safety protections, fair wages, and transparency seriously. These corporations have undermined worker organizing in city after city by using intimidation tactics and threats to force local governments to accept poor conditions and unlivable pay for the workers who drive rideshare in their city.

That’s not going to work in Chicago. We’re thrilled that Chicago’s minimum wage is going up on July 1, 2025, but that raise doesn’t include rideshare drivers. We can make sure the 85,000 folks who drive rideshare in Chicago also get the raise they deserve by passing our ordinance.

Rideshare drivers united in the Chicago Gig Alliance are making our final push toward the finish line! Join our car caravan on January 15 to help build up the pressure before our big public action in February.

We'll meet in the parking lot at the corner of Roosevelt and Canal to decorate our cars with signs, then proceed to drive together in a caravan around City Hall.

For years, we’ve watched as Uber and Lyft nickel and dime the drivers who make their shareholders rich, refusing to take drivers’ demands for safety protections, fair wages, and transparency seriously. These corporations have undermined worker organizing in city after city by using intimidation tactics and threats to force local governments to accept poor conditions and unlivable pay for the workers who drive rideshare in their city.

That’s not going to work in Chicago. We’re thrilled that Chicago’s minimum wage is going up on July 1, 2025, but that raise doesn’t include rideshare drivers. We can make sure the 85,000 folks who drive rideshare in Chicago also get the raise they deserve by passing our ordinance.

Rideshare drivers united in the Chicago Gig Alliance are making our final push toward the finish line! Come be a part of our public action to pass the FairShare Ordinance!

For years, we’ve watched as Uber and Lyft nickel and dime the drivers who make their shareholders rich, refusing to take drivers’ demands for safety protections, fair wages, and transparency seriously. These corporations have undermined worker organizing in city after city by using intimidation tactics and threats to force local governments to accept poor conditions and unlivable pay for the workers who drive rideshare in their city.

That’s not going to work in Chicago. We’re thrilled that Chicago’s minimum wage is going up on July 1, 2025, but that raise doesn’t include rideshare drivers. We can make sure the 85,000 folks who drive rideshare in Chicago also get the raise they deserve by passing our ordinance.

Join us at Uber’s corporate headquarters at 433 W Van Buren for a massive action where we’ll tell Uber directly that rideshare drivers deserve what all workers deserve. We’re not taking no for an answer!

Survivors Know, Chicago Jobs with Justice, and the Chicago Gig Alliance are hosting a Worker Solidarity Circle. This is a space to connect with other workers, share experiences, and work together for positive change. Please fill out this form so we can learn more about you and keep you updated on upcoming meetings.

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Survivors Know, Chicago Jobs with Justice, and the Chicago Gig Alliance are hosting a Worker Solidarity Circle. This is a space to connect with other workers, share experiences, and work together for positive change. Please fill out this form to RSVP so we can learn more about you and keep you updated on upcoming meetings. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1E_2NRnJeL2VCVgw-41PswtGstgDvrIGUWDOztd0xFVk/viewform

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1E_2NRnJeL2VCVgw-41PswtGstgDvrIGUWDOztd0xFVk/viewform

Trump won re-election, in part, by blaming the wrong people for the crises we are all facing in our communities: rents we can't afford to pay, poor jobs, unaffordable or poor health care, inadequate and crumbling public transportation, among others. White nationalists would have us fighting each other for the scraps that corporations leave to us, rather than standing in solidarity to protect each other and build enough people-power to check corporate-power.

Our real problem is the growing and virtually unchecked power of billionaires and CEOs in American capitalism and our political system. Under Trump's second administration, corporations will have more power than ever before, unless we organize to oppose them. But the good news is that we will be able to stop much of his agenda and continue to win at the local and state level.

The first items on Trump's agenda will be to slash taxes for corporations and the rich. Then they attempt to turn Medicare over to private corporations, attempt to gut Medicaid, attempt to gut environmental protections, and attempt mass deportations that will hurt undocumented people and harm our economy. Because much of his agenda will be deeply unpopular with Americans and with corporate elites, so if we organize, we may be able to stop some key pieces of his agenda. We can also continue to bring people together to win local and state investments in our people and communities.

This event is VIRTUAL. Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAlfuirrT8vHN3D0NMCe8v711MGeMtCZQwX
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Learn how to Lobby your legislator in your own community to ask them to invest in public transportation services and expand public transit in your own community. We will meet virtually over Zoom.

Join us for our January EJ Task Force meeting to hear updates about transit legislation, learn more about our campaign, help us plan future events, and more!

Come to Springfield to join us in directly engaging our legislators! We'll provide food, transportation, and all the training you need to help move your elected officials forward on our health care, criminal justice, transit, and workers' rights campaigns.

More details to come.

Join The People's Lobby Healthcare Task Force on January 7th from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM. We will be discussing the task force's goals for 2025 and exploring ways for you to get involved.

The People's Lobby's office is closed from December 18 – January 2! We hope you all take some time to get good rest and enjoy the holiday season.

Join Arthur Dennis and Alderman of the 5th Ward Desmon Yancy for a Kwanzaa-styled Political Education that focuses on both the Imani ("Faith") of our community, and Nia ("Purpose") of our collective fight for liberation. Attendees will feel “in their guts” what is wrong with the poverty the rich inflict on us working people, while attendees role-play and discuss their own power in dismantling that system through collective action. Attendees will walk away feeling validated in their experiences of how classism creates false tensions between working class people, Black (& Brown) people, LGBTQ+ people, and learn how organizing is the solution.

On Thursday, December 12, at 6 PM, The People’s Lobby and the House Public Transit Working Group will host a discussion of how we’re going to rebuild public transportation for Chicagoland. Panelist State Representative and Metropolitan Mobility Act lead sponsor Eva-Dina Delgado will be there to answer your questions, along with State Representatives Barbara Hernandez, Anna Moeller, and Matt Hanson.

This is an opportunity to tell your legislators directly what you need and build the people power we need to get it done.

Join Alderman Matt Martin, Julia Ramirez, Desmon Yancy and grassroots organizations for a town hall about the Chicago Fair Elections Ordinance — a small dollar matching program that aims to increase participation in local elections and empower people from all walks of life to run for elected office.

Chicago is currently the largest US city without publicly financed elections. This town hall is an opportunity to learn about the ordinance and discuss what Fair Elections would mean for you and your community.

Doors open at 11:30 am, and the program begins at noon. We hope you'll join us!

Come to Springfield to join us in directly engaging our legislators! We'll provide food, transportation, and all the training you need to help move your elected officials forward on our health care, criminal justice, transit, and workers' rights campaigns.

Transportation details to come.

Join us for our November EJ Task Force meeting to hear updates about transit legislation, learn more about our campaign, help us plan future events, and more!

zoom link to be sent soon.

Join us to discuss how we can organize to end the inequities in our healthcare system, share your healthcare stories, and learn about actions we can take to protect and improve healthcare under Trump and in Illinois.

Free child care will be provided.

The Oak Park Library is accessible.

CTA Green line Harlem and Lake stop is a 6 min. walk (0.3 miles) to the library.
Garage parking (first two hours free)
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Come join us in making our public meeting space inspirational and exciting by coming to our art build this weekend! We'll be painting giant banners to help folks imagine us building the justice reform, public transit, environment, health care, etc that we want to see in the world.

No art skill required–Casey is wonderfully providing stencils for us! We will also order tacos.