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Cracks at Hotel California Issue #7 – Black August
Commemorate Black August 2025 at Cook County Jail! Black August (BA) is a commemorative month which recognizes the sacrifices and struggles of Black people in the ongoing fight for freedom and real liberation from the American nightmare. It’s a month-long observance for reflection, study,…
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FREE VINCENT HILL!
A letter from Vincent from inside Cook County Jail Hello My Name is Vincent Hill. I recently received a newsletter from Dare to Struggle. Thank you for taking time out your day to reach out to me, as I’m eager to tell my story…
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A Letter to the Outside
Inmates write about conditions at CCJ The following is a letter sent to Dare to Struggle – Chicago from a group of inmates inside Cook County Jail’s Division 11. Inmates have requested the letter be published in full to further expose conditions inside the…
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DCFS: Department of Child Abuse and Family Separation
Children abandoned in dingy juvenile cells amidst a mental health crisis, left to rot in fluorescent-lit cubicle offices overnight with strangers, dumped in emergency rooms and deprieved of access to adequate medical care, and cuffed in full-body shackles as they are displaced from one…
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When they eat their own
On June 5th, Krystal Rivera was gunned down by a fellow pig in the Chicago Police Department (CPD). According to the cops, Rivera and her partner, Carlos Baker, were conducting an “investigatory stop” (CPD’s new age term for stop and frisk) in the southside Chatham…
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Cracks at Hotel California: What happened to Attica?
A call to action from Dare to Struggle – Chicago For more than 6 months now, Dare to Struggle – Chicago has been going out to Cook County Jail, talking with inmates and their loved ones about the horrors behind its walls. The conditions…
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“This is WAR.”
New York Inmates Who Exposed Messiah Nantwi’s Murder Wrote to Dare to Struggle – ChicagoDrawings sent to us by M Cleaver On March 15th, Dare to Struggle – Chicago wrote letters to inmates at the Midstate Correctional Facility in New York who spokeout to…
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“Well we’re hiring”: SA Survivors Demand Justice and the CPD Pigs Offer Recruitment
Last night, Chicago Police Department’s (CPD) 14th District and Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy (CAPS) hosted a a community beat meeting at a local church in Humboldt Park: a recurring farce performed by CPD once a month at each Chicago Police district to feign rapport…
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Justice for Timothy Glaze! No More Stolen Lives!
Timothy Glaze was murdered by CPD on January 3rd, 2025. This statement was given at a protest outside the 10th district police precinct which employs his killers on January 8th. When I think of how Timothy Glaze was executed by CPD pigs and taken…
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Lipstick on a Pig
THE MYTH OF POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY IN CHICAGO On November 7, 2024, the Chicago Alliance Against Racial & Political Repression (CAARPR) held a “Day After the Election Rally” in downtown Chicago to protest the incoming Trump presidency. In front of a crowd of hundreds, one…
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