Organizing Neighborhoods for Equality: Northside is a mixed-income, multi-ethnic, intergenerational organization that unites our diverse communities. We build collective power to eliminate injustice through bold and innovative community organizing. We accomplish this through developing grassroots leaders and acting together to effect change.
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We envision a diverse, united North Side of Chicago acting powerfully for our shared values of racial, social, and economic justice in communities where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.
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We believe that we all benefit from the racial, ethnic, religious, economic, gender, sexual and age diversity in our communities. That diversity will be represented in the organization and will make us more powerful and effective. We believe there is no equality without justice. When we speak about justice, we are talking about fair treatment of and access for all people regardless of race, gender identity, economic status, age, and sexual identity.
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We believe leaders are made, not born, and anyone is capable of becoming a leader. We believe that developing grassroots leadership is essential to building power and making positive change in our community.
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We believe power is simply the ability to act, and through organizing we bring people together and build collective power.
ONE Northside, along with our partners in Fair Economy Illinois, worked hard a couple years ago to stop fracking (a dangerous method of oil and gas drilling) from occurring in Illinois. By generating tens of thousands of comments we effectively created a moratorium for over a year as the fracking lobby tried to legalize the […]
The more the dust has settled around Illinois’ new budget, the more proud we are of the fact that the budget closes three of the corporate tax loopholes ONE Northside has been leading the fight to close for years! Illinois’ new budget raised ~$5.2 billion in new revenue. $4.6 billion comes from an increase in […]
Last week, many of you received an email celebrating the Mental Health Justice Team and our significant victory of raising the monthly personal need allowance in IL through a budget measure (more at this link). Today, we call on Governor Rauner to sign SB1353 and make this victory permanent! For the last year, the Mental Health Justice […]
Last week, the Illinois legislature finally passed a budget for our state. In the last few days, we have continued to analyze the 3 budget bills that were passed and are excited to announce that the Mental Health Justice Team has a significant victory!! For the last year, the Mental Health Justice Team has been fighting to increase […]