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2008

2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 - 2002


01-08-2008 - Chicago Sun Times - 4 war protesters arrested after attempt to stop Bush motorcade

03-07-2008 - Queerty.com - Protest For Ex-Gay Publisher [picture]

03-12-2008 - Windy City Times - GLN to protest ‘ex-gay' publisher

03-19-2008 - Chicago Tribune - Iraq war protesters make selves heard in Chicago and elsewhere on anniversary of invasion Downtown rally, march mimic events nationwide

03-26-2008 - Windy City Times - Anti-War Advocates Get Creative

04-23-2008 - Windy City Times - LGBTs part of May 1 immigration march

05-01-2008 - Medill Reports Chicago - Different backgrounds, one goal

05-04-2008 - Windy City Times - LGBTs rally on May Day

05-07-2008 - Windy City Times - Anti-same-sex marriage referendum push fails

05-09-2008 - Workers Vanguard - Chicago Gay Liberation Network Activist Targeted - Drop Charges Against Andy Thayer!

05-12-2008 - Petrelis Files Blogspot - Chicago, NY, SF: May 16-17 Actions for Gay Russians [pictures]

05-17-2008 - Daily Herald - California gay marriage ruling will affect Illinois

05-21-2008 - Windy City Times - Activists mark day against homophobia [picture]

06-01-2008 - Agence France Presse - Russian gays defy ban, more arrests at Moscow protests [pictures]

06-25-2008 - Windy City Times - Groups address police brutality

06-25-2008 - Windy City Times - March highlights Boystown tensions


2007

01-17-2007 - Windy City Times - ‘DON’T HATE—TOLERATE!!!’ [pictures]

01-30-2007 - TokyoProgressive.org - LGBT Human Rights Conference in Montreal

05-09-2007 - Windy City Times - Groups Plan to Protest Pace

05-23-2007 - Windy City Times - Anti-Same-Sex Marriage Initiative Returns

05-23-2007 - Windy City Times - Pace Picket [pictures]

05-30-2007 - Windy City Times - Nigerian Activist: Man on a Mission [picture]

06-13-2007 - Windy City Times - Nigerian Activist Sheds Light on Homeland

06-13-2007 - Windy City Times - Local Coalition to Protest Reggae Musician

06-27-2007 - Windy City Times - Another Sponsor Withdraws from Festival

07-27-2007 - WBBM - Audit: City In Compliance With 'Red Squads' Decree

08-07-2007 - Chicago Tribune - Protesters decry Obama stance on Pakistan

08-13-207 - Chicago FreeSpeechZone - Putting Dems' Feet to the Fire - A day of action against Democrats who let the anti-war movement down [pictures]

08-30-2007 - Queerty.com - Hotel Won’t Have Homo-Hating LaBarbera LaBarbera Bitches, Moans, Cries Discrimination

09-05-2007 - Windy City Times - Russian to Speak at Shepherd Rally

09-05-2007 - Windy City Times - Venus Publisher to be at Anti-Gay Banquet

09-23-2007 - Chicago Tribune - Anti-gay Anglican archbishop speaks in Wheaton

09-24-2007 - Chicago SunTimes - WHEATON | Lesbian chaplain protests Anglican archbishop's talk

09-26-2007 - Windy City Times - Group Protests Akinola Appearance

09-27-2007 - Chicago Tribune - Women claim police abuse and cover-up in lawsuit [video link]

10-02-2007 - CBS2Chicago - Russian Gay Rights Activist To Speak In Chicago

10-03-2007 - Chicago Free Press - Gay group plans to protest anti-gay benefit in burbs

10-04-2007 - UK Gay News - Russian Gay Activist in Chicago [pictures]

10-05-2007 - UK Gay News - Russian Activist at Fundraiser for Moscow Gay Pride [pictures]

10-10-2007 - Windy City Times - Protest Targets LGBT Violence [pictures]

10-10-2007 - Chicago Free Press - Alexeyev discusses struggle for GLBT rights in Russia [picture]

10-10-2007 - Chicago Free Press - Matthew Shepard March winds through Lakeview streets [picture]

10-15-2007 - CBS2Chicago - New Marine Corps High School Opens In Chicago Critics Say Chicago Public School Is Preparing Students To Serve In Armed Forces

10-24-2007 - Windy City Times - Trans-Rights Activists Picket Pelosi Appearance [picture]

11-21-2007 - Windy City Times - Suit claims suburban cops bashed gay, poz man [picture]

11-21-2007 - Windy City Times - WEEK OF ‘T’ RIGHTS: Trans protest, confront HRC in Chicago [pictures]

11-30-2007 - In These Times - Dark Side of Russia’s Rainbow [picture]


2006

01-06-2006 - Chicago Free Press - GAYS, LESBIANS TO RALLY AT MARRIAGE BUREAU

01-12-2006 - Chicago Free Press - Protesters Slam Bush

02-11-2006 - ABC - Gays and lesbians march for right to marry

02-11-2006 - WBBM780 - Gay Activists Protest Polish President During Chicago Visit

02-12-2006 - 365Gay.com - Gay Protest Greets Polish Pres. In Chicago

02-12-2006 - CBS - Polish President Honored At Niles Banquet Hall Gay Rights Group Protests His Visit For Remarks Before He Was President

02-12-2006 - WBBM780 - Gay Marriage Advocates March Downtown

02-15-2006 - Windy City Times - Gay Marriage Activists Stage Protest [pictures]

02-15-2006 - Windy City Times - Poland's Anti-Gay Leader Visits Niles [picture]

03-01-2006 - Windy City Times - GLN, OPALGA Start Anti-Oberweis Initiatives

03-09-2006 - 365Gay.com - Gays Disrupt Speech By Polish President

03-10-2006 - WBBM780 - Judge Rules For City In Anti-War Protester Case

03-16-2006 - Chicago Sun Times - War protesters finally get OK to march on Michigan Ave.

03-17-2006 - Chicago Tribune - Iraq war protesters set to march on Michigan Ave. Organizers use plans from Lights Festival to gain city permit

03-18-2006 - United Press International - The Washington Times - Chicago war protesters get their march

03-19-2006 - Northwest Indiana Times - 7,000 march on Michigan Avenue NWI residents join in Chicago anti-war protests

03-19-2006 - Chicago Tribune - THREE YEARS IN IRAQ: WALK AGAINST WAR Thousands march in city war protest [picture]

03-28-2006 - Chicago Reader - Everybody Loves a Parade Andy Thayer finally figured out how to get an antiwar protest routed down Michigan Avenue.

Chicago FreeSpeechZone has posted a series of articles that local web journalist, Sergio Barretto, wrote about the March 18th protest. Visit chicagofreespeechzone.com, click the links below or read all of the articles in this .pdf download.

February 6, 2006 On Its Face NLG, activists challenge constitutionality of the city’s disorderly conduct ordinance. - LINK

March 10, 2006 The Battle for Michigan Avenue: Year IV - LINK

March 16, 2005 On Its Face: The Decision - LINK

March 16, 2006 The Battle for Michigan Avenue: Update - LINK

March 21, 2006 'This Is What Democracy Looks Like' - LINK

04-27-2006 - Chicago Tribune - Anti-gay issue could shake up the fall election

05-08-2006 - 365Gay.com - Illinois Anti-Group Hands In Referendum Names Governor Extends Benefits To Same-Sex Partners Of Civil Servants

05-08-2006 - Gay.com - Ill. marriage foes deliver ballot signatures

05-08-2006 - Windy City Times - Couple at Immigration March Shares Experience to Create Awareness

05-08-2006 - Windy City Times - Knight at the Movies: Hate Crime & Seth Peterson on His Hate Crime Role

06-06-2006 - Chicago Tribune - Local gay rights activists protest marriage amendment

06-06-2006 - Chicago Tribune/Reuters - Marriage Amendment Protest - Press Photos [pictures]

06-07-2006 - Chicago Tribune - Gay leader: Marriage issue a fake Says GOP trying to obscure nation's deeper problems

06-14-2006 - Windy City Times - GLN Among Those Protesting at Church

06-20-2006 - ABC7 - Police investigating fire that burned gay-themed library books Arson could be hate crime

06-21-2006 - Chicago Tribune - Protests blast cops on book burning

06-21-2006 - Windy City Times - Blaze Set at Library Targets GLBT Books

06-26-2006 - Chicago Sun-Times - Pride Parade a blend of whimsy and serious

06-27-2006 - OIA Newsdesk - GAYS TO PROTEST AGAINST “EX-GAY” FRAUD

06-28-2006 - Marion Chronicle Tribune - Protesters rally against group's message, say gay rights stymied [picture]

06-28-2006 - Windy City Times - Homeless Woman Charged with Merlo Fire

07-05-2006 - Planet Out Network - Illinois marriage foes fall short on signatures

07-18-2006 - OIA Newsdesk - CHICAGO TO JOIN PROTEST AGAINST EXECUTIONS OF GAYS

07-26-2006 - Windy City Times - IFI Rally Done In by Protesters and Rain

08-02-2006 - Windy City Times - Groups Protest DMX Concert

08-07-2006 - NBC5.com WMAQ TV - Activists Demand Peace At Israeli Consulate Downtown Emergency Picket Demands Immediate Ceasefire

08-23-2006 - Windy City Times - Shake-Up At Anti-Gay Illinois Group

08-30-2006 - 365Gay.com - Homophobia In Poland A 'Myth' PM Says

09-13-2006 - OIA Newsdesk - HOUSE OF BLUES FACES PROTEST FOR HOSTING SINGER WHO CALLS FOR KILLING GAYS

09-13-2006 - Indiana Daily Student - Groups up in arms over artist scheduled to play at Bluebird Reggae singer acquitted of gay hate crime

09-13-2006 - Windy City Times - Coalition Protests Clear Channel Stations WGCI and V-103 [picture]

09-14-2006 - Indiana Daily Student News - Bluebird cancels show amid protests GLBT groups angered by singer's anti-gay song lyrics

09-16-2006 - Advocate.com - Indiana club cancels performance of homophobic reggae singer

09-20-2006 - Windy City Times - Coalition Protests Reggae Musician [picture]

10-11-2006 - Windy City Times - Shepard March and Rally Show Unity [pictures]

10-17-2006 - Party for Socialism and Liberation - Militant protest greets Bush in Chicago [picture]

10-18-2006 - Windy City Times - Gay History Month: Chicagoans Reflect

11-01-2006 - Windy City Times - Thayer Loses Trial

11-05-2006 - Daily Southtown - You can vote for or against Iraq war on Tuesday

12-13-2006 - Windy City Times - Lakeview Group Takes Action for Homeless Youth [picture]



2005

02-11-2005 - OIA Newsdesk - VICTORY IN DANCEHALL "KILL GAYS" LYRICS WAR

03-19-2005 - Labor Beat: Chicago Protests The War at Home and The War Abroad - March 19, 2005 [pictures]

05-25-2005 - Windy City Times - Orr Skips Meeting with Marriage Activists

06-15-2005 - Windy City Times - GLN Protests Anti-Gays’ Fundraiser [picture]

06-24-2005 - Southern Voice - Task Force honors Daschle for opposing amendment Activists critical of former senator’s DOMA vote

07-15-2005 - Southern Voice - Gay groups award style over substance? Public officials who take ‘brave not perfect’ stands deserve nods, groups say

07-27-2005 - Windy City Times - Chicago GLBTs Debate Marriage Strategy

09-13-2005 - NBC5 - War Protesters Call For City Council Resolution Alderman Joins Ranks With Demonstrators

09-16-2005 - Washington Blade - Some gay groups to join Iraq war protest in D.C. Task Force endorses march; HRC stays neutral

10-12-2005 - Windy City Times - Activists Gather at 7th Annual Shepard Protest [pictures]

11-19-2005 - Worker's World - Community wants Navy out of high school


2004

05-25-2004 - 365Gay.com - Is New Coors Boycott Brewing?

06-18-2004 - Houston Voice - HRC endorses Kerry despite marriage issue Democrat criticized on Mass. marriage amendment support

07-27-2004 - 365Gay.com - Gay Pep Rallies & Protests At Democratic Convention [picture]

08-03-2004 - MargaretCho.com - Infuriated

08-06-2004 - 365Gay.com - Kerry, Edwards 'No Objection' To Missouri Gay Marriage Ban

09-03-2004 - Washington Blade - Gay protesters march against GOP in NYC Demonstrators assail Bush policies on marriage, AIDS

11-24-2004 - Windy City Times - Marriage Group Thanks Chicago Mayor Daley [picture]

12-15-2004 - Windy City Times - CABN Becomes Gay Liberation Network


2003

01-16-2003 - Boston Pheonix - Gay goes mainstream A mature gay movement returns to its origins in a politics of broad social change

01-17-2003 - Southern Voice - Gay groups divided over possible conflict in Iraq National Gay & Lesbian Task Force opposes war, others disagree

03-26-2003 - Windy City Times - GLBTS Among Frontline Anti-War Protesters, Organizers in Chicago Leslie Feinberg speaks at forum

04-04-2003 - Chicago Reader - Taken By Surprise [picture below]

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photo: Associated Press

The day after the U.S. started its invasion of Iraq, some 15,000+ people demonstrated in a protest led by the Chicago Coalition Against War & Racism, of which CABN is an active member. Protesters flooded past Chicago police onto Lake Shore Drive, taking over all eight lanes, and marching for about a mile on the Drive to protest the U.S. slaughter. People were angry that the invasion was launched despite the express demands of most of the world's population, as registered in polls and the largest series of protests the planet had ever seen.

Mainstream news reports indicated that Chicago's was the largest "emergency response" protest held in the U.S. on March 20th, and most national networks broke into their regular broadcasts to show footage of the protest. For detailed accounts of the protest, including comments from CABN members, read the following front page article by Ben Joraksky of The Reader, along with a sidebar by Sergio Barreto.

04-04-2003 - Chicago Reader - The Boys of Cellblock E - How a lawyer, a waiter, a teacher, a minister, and a tourist who stepped out of the Cheesecake Factory at the wrong time found themselves sharing a steel toilet.

06-27-2003 - Chicago Reader - How Did This Happen? If the city bears some responsibility for the peace march chaos, it's not owning up.

09-01-2003 - Sydney Star Observer - US gays launch war on war

09-03-2003 - Windy City Times - Anti-Gay "Perfect Storm" Threatens How Will Our Community Respond?

10-08-2003 - Chicago Free Press - Lakeview Marchers Demand Marriage Rights

10-08-2003 - Windy City Times - Shepard Marchers Rally for Marriage


2002

06-27-2002 - Workers World - 'You don't get justice unless you protest' Gay victory against brutal sheriffs

07-2002 - News & Letters - Gays target racism

11-02-2002 - Chicago Tribune - $2 million award in cop beating case

12-13-2002 - OUT! Against War Chicago-area Lesbian,Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered People and allies against war on Iraq Anti-War_Ad.pdf

12-17-2002 - Full page anti-war signature ads appear this week in both major LGBT papers!



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