Anti-Trump, Anti-ICE Veterans Day Protests Planned Tuesday Downtown, OL, Southeast Side

CHICAGO — Veterans Day protests against the Trump Administration are planned in downtown Chicago and around the South Side, Tuesday, Nov. 11.

About Face (formerly known as Iraqi Veterans Against The War), comprised of post 9-11 military members and veterans, are organizing “Vets Say No” protests nationwide on Veterans Day. The group is calling to end a foreign policy of permanent war and the use of military weapons, tactics and values in communities across the country.

The veterans advocacy group is hosting a “Unity Marsh for Peace, Justice and Healing,” from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial along the River Walk, 24 E. Wacker Drive.

Indivisible Southwest Chicagoland Realist Resistance is organizing a protest at 95th Street and Cicero Avenue, in Oak Lawn. Parking is available in the Green Oak Shopping Center. The protest starts at 11 a.m.

Southsiders for Peace will be joining Concerned Neighbors Resist! for an “ICE Out! Fuera ICE!” from 3 to 5 p.m. at 106th Street and Ewing Avenue.

East Side residents are still fuming over border patrol agents, who rammed a car they were pursuing last month at 105th Street and Avenue N, resulting in a tense standoff with neighbors. As Chicago police investigated the accident and tried to de-escalate the situation, residents are alleged to have thrown objects at the federal agents, at which point federal agencts deployed tear gas, according to news reports.

“A few weeks ago ICE attacked and tried to terrorize folks at 105th Street and Avenue N,” Southsiders for Peace said in a statement. “But people fought back and held their ground against the racist thugs.”