CATA and ICIRR Announce Another Emergency Protest Against Trump’s Plan to Enforce “Operation Midway Blitz”
Coalition Against the Trump Agenda (CATA)
For Immediate Release: Monday, September 8th, 2025
Press contact / coordinator: Hatem Abudayyeh, CATA Steering Committee & U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) National Chair
CATA and ICIRR Announce Another Emergency Protest Against Trump’s Plan to Enforce “Operation Midway Blitz”
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) and Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR), plus CATA members 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: Protest and march to challenge “Operation Midway Blitz” and the presence of ICE in Chicago
Where: Congress Plaza Garden, North. Intersection of Ida B Wells Drive and Michigan Avenue, downtown Chicago
When: Tuesday, September 9th, at 5 PM
In response to the Trump administration's plan to enforce what they are calling, “Operation Midway Blitz,” the Coalition Against the Trump Agenda (CATA) and the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) are holding a mass demonstration in opposition to this tyranny and the influx of any ICE agents into our city. While immigrant communities have been living in fear of being kidnapped, the Trump administration is following through with their white supremacist agenda to let ICE loose in our cities, and detain and deport as many immigrants as he can. We refuse to allow this in our sanctuary city.
“We cannot accept the divide-and-conquer rhetoric that calls our neighbors criminals, calls our siblings illegals,” said Omar Flores of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression’s Immigrant Rights Working Committee. “These are the people that Trump is attacking. So we have to stand up together and say very loudly and proudly that this is not going to happen.”
CATA and ICIRR mobilized over 8,000 people to say “NO TRUMP, NO TROOPS” this past Saturday, because the people of Chicago are united against these racist and reactionary attacks against our communities.
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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.