TOMORROW, Sat, September 6 @ 5PM in Chicago: Coalition Against the Trump Agenda Announces Emergency Protests Against Trump’s Plan to Unleash Federal Troops in Chicago
Coalition Against the Trump Agenda (CATA)
For Immediate Release: Friday, September 5th, 2025
Press contact / coordinator: Hatem Abudayyeh, CATA Steering Committee & U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) National Chair
Coalition Against the Trump Agenda Announces Emergency Protests Against Trump’s Plan to Unleash Federal Troops in Chicago
Livestream will be available on @coalitionagainsttrump on Instagram. Footage rights released with credit to “Coalition Against the Trump Agenda”
Who: Coalition Against the Trump Agenda (CATA) includes Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR), Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (CAARPR), USPCN-Chicago, Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), Organized Communities Against Deportations (OCAD), Casa DuPage Workers Center, United Working Families, Grassroots Collaborative, Warehouse Workers for Justice, Community Renewal Society, GoodKids MadCity, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) at UIC, 290 IPO, Mientras Haya Amor Haya Esperanza, and many others.
What: Rally and march to protest the presence of federal troops in Chicago.
Where: Congress Plaza Garden, North. Intersection of Ida B Wells Drive and Michigan Avenue, downtown Chicago.
When: Saturday, September 6 @ 5PM
In response to Trump’s threats to send federal troops into Chicago despite no requests from local or state leaders, the Coalition Against the Trump Agenda (CATA) and the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) are prepared to organize a mass demonstration in opposition to any increase in federal troops or militarized forces. Trump’s threats are racist, and his claims that crime is out of control in Chicago are false. It is just a pretext to continue his white supremacist plans to let ICE loose in our cities, and detain and deport as many immigrants as he can.
“Under Mayor Brandon Johnson’s leadership, violent crime in Chicago has reached its lowest point since 2019,” said Frank Chapman, Executive Director of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. “The people of Chicago know Trump is a racist and a liar, and have shown militant opposition to his policies, manifested most recently in the Workers Over Billionaires protest on Labor Day, when 10,000 Chicagoans cheered as Mayor Johnson shouted, ‘No Federal Troops in the city of Chicago!’”
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Coalition Against the Trump Agenda operates on the following points of unity:
With Trump's commitment to ramp up repression, we need to forge the broadest unity we can in order to defend our movements.
We unite around the demands to Fight the Racist & Reactionary Republican Agenda, Defend & Expand Immigrant Rights, Stand with Palestine and end all U.S aid to Israel, Defend the Right to Unionize & Strike, Stop Police Crimes, Defend Women’s LGBTQIA+ & Reproductive Rights, and Defend Education & Academic Freedom.
It is only by uniting the combined forces of our movements to fight for all of our demands that we can not only defend our communities, but win greater power.