Ace
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Ace
@aprilacevedo.bsky.social
Creative Producer | CHI
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This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.
October 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Not gonna lie, I have been neglectful in using the Tribe as a news source lol, but over the last week or so they have been a very valuable source of information. Especially for knowing what's happening with black people in the city.
We need more publications like this, please donate.
We’re so thankful to everyone who is spreading the word about our work at The TRiiBE.

This moment demands more revolutionary voices in journalism. Support independent, Black-owned journalism today.

Make a monetary contribution: buy.stripe.com/00w14n5ZRbhk...
October 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Now happening in Broadview, a western suburb of Chicago.

Follow @unraveledpress.com for updates out there.
At the Broadview, IL ICE detention center—

IL state troopers are already pushing non-violent demonstrators out of the street and away from the ICE facility. One arrest so far.
October 4, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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FYI: one of us is en route to Broadview. We can't provide updates on new details we learn about Brighton Park shooting from this account, because we have to use it at Broadview.

@peoplesfabric.com is dealing with decontaminating himself at the moment. Check his feed for further shooting updates.
October 4, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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For those who don't know:

3 Community journalists in Chicago have teamed up to provide LOCAL, DAILY COVERAGE.

Please follow and support, if you can.

They're going above and beyond to serve truth.

@unraveledpress.com ; @thetriibe.com ; @peoplesfabric.com
FYI: one of us is en route to Broadview. We can't provide updates on new details we learn about Brighton Park shooting from this account, because we have to use it at Broadview.

@peoplesfabric.com is dealing with decontaminating himself at the moment. Check his feed for further shooting updates.
October 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect.

As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
August 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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The biggest story on June 14 won’t be Trump’s $100 million birthday parade in DC — it will be what happens everywhere else. We’re mobilizing nationwide on No Kings Day with more than 1,000 events planned in all 50 states. Sign up to join our national day of defiance: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
May 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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It ain't over til it's over though. Please make a call to your senator today if you havent yet: bsky.app/profile/indi...
🚨 We’re hearing the crypto-friendly bill that would enable Trump’s corruption could get another Senate vote on Thursday. Democrats can block this bill, but that’s not going to happen unless they hear from a lot of us. Let’s get to work: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
May 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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They are literally forcing all of Gazans into a concentration camp in what used to be Rafah in southern Gaza, after destroying it. They are now planning on annihilating Khan Younis.

There’s never been a genocide so thoroughly documented as it was live-streamed straight to our phones.
BREAKING: The Israeli military has issued forced evacuation orders for Khan Younis, Gaza’s second-largest city, warning there will be an “unprecedented attack”.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7w6uku
May 19, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Just passed through Budget. Onto Rules later this week. And then passage through the full chamber by the end of the week.

We are in end game in the House. This is a crucial week of action for stopping it.
Our best chance to stop this thing is in the House.

Rs are trying to pass it though Budget tonight, through Rules Wednesday, and then through the full chamber on Friday.

It would kick millions off Medicaid and take food assistance away from households with kids as young as 7. Please help stop it.
This coming week is a crucial week of action.

By as early as Friday, House Rs are hoping to have passed their bill to kick millions off Medicaid and millions off SNAP.

Even with all Dems opposed this could pass both the House and the Senate - so we need to flip 3 in the House or 4 in the Senate.
May 19, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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The donations we receive today will help fund our billboards and all our grassroots organizing. And these tactics are scalable, meaning the more we raise, the more billboards, phonebanks, and texts we can fund. If you’re all in to stop the cuts and protect Medicaid and SNAP, please support our work.
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May 17, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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This was a very cool read, nice to see something positive. Proud to live here and have voted for Pritzker and Johnson. They're not perfect, but I do genuinely think they give a fuck.
NEW — Today, Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson applauded a new Northwestern University study that found the state-funded Chicago CRED Peacekeepers Program led to a 41% reduction in victimizations within violence “hotspots.”

thetriibe.com/2025/04/prit...
Pritzker, Johnson applaud Peacekeepers violence prevention program as crime drops in Chicago • The TRiiBE
Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson stood together to praise new findings crediting a violence prevention program for reductions in crime.
thetriibe.com
April 18, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Disobey in advance.
April 1, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Sending love to everyone in Wisconsin who showed up to stop Musk from buying another election. This was so important and y'all did it. ❤️
April 2, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
March 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Naomi Klein, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Chenjerai Kumanyika and Astra Taylor on the corporate coup—and how progressives can win by organizing to capture the groundswell of public opinion.
Now Is the Time for Big Ideas
A post-inauguration roundtable hosted by Haymarket Books with Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Astra Taylor and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the dismantling of the administrative state and the path to…
inthesetimes.com
March 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt

🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT
February 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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As ICE targets undocumented people in and around my city, I am proud of Chicago organizers and community members who are working to protect our neighbors. If you are discouraged in these times, remember that people of conscience are taking action and that there are many ways you can join them.
January 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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All immigrants in the U.S. have rights, including the right to remain silent.

Here’s what you should know if you encounter federal immigration agents: https://buff.ly/4jMqi6b
January 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM