Gina Ramirez

Freight train derails in South Deering neighborhood on South Side of Chicago Several tanker cars on a freight train derailed Friday afternoon in the South Deering neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago.

Train derailment in my neighborhood. Always a fear here www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

FEMA workers pulled from Chicago storm damage surveys because of ICE The decision to halt disaster assessment work came amid the immigration crackdown in Chicago. Officials worried FEMA’s efforts could put residents and surveyors at risk.

Climate work isn’t only about floods & storms, it’s about trust, equity, and ensuring relief reaches EVERYONE, regardless of immigration status. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Chicago's Essential Dive Bars Vol. 2: The History And Legacy Of 12 More Iconic Watering Holes We asked: What are your favorite dive bars in the city? Here’s what Chicagoans said.

My beloved Crow Bar made the list blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/24/c...

Protesters have gathered in Uptown Charlotte to speak out against Border Patrol. TikTok video by WBTV News

Charlotte stands up against brutality! Thank you!

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMwgUEcM/

I will always make time for a Claire Danes cry.

Not going to lie the Hayley Williams and Jay Som records are getting me through these tough dark times 🤷🏻‍♀️#jams

Chicago Teens Stand Up to Environmental Racism on the South Side "We are tired of the city treating us like a garbage can.”

Teen Vogue featured young incredibly courageous teens from my neighborhood a few years ago standing up against environmental racism. So disappointed that these stories will no longer have a place there. www.teenvogue.com/story/enviro...

The Volunteers Tracking ICE in Los Angeles How a small group of activists dubbed the “Peace Patrol” stymie the deployment of federal agents in California.

These local organizers resisting ICE in Los Angeles display a level of smarts and courage that is nothing short of inspiring. We should all be sharing with each other examples of powerful local organizing so we can all learn.

#MomSky

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Chicago Heights priest begins walk for immigrant children from Pope Leo’s childhood home in Dolton Gary Graf, a Chicago Heights Catholic priest, began a 50-day justice walk from Pope Leo’s boyhood home in Dolton to New York.

❤️ www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/06/c...

In Arizona, a fight against a deadly fungus is under threat from Trump’s health policies What one Arizona doctor’s quest to stop valley fever says about America’s preparedness for climate-driven disease.

In Arizona, a fight against a deadly fungus is under threat from Trump’s health policies.

What one doctor’s quest to stop valley fever says about America’s preparedness for climate-driven disease.

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#AZ #Arizona #Climate #Health #PublicHealth #Disease

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Veteran activist pleads for City Council's help fighting pollution in Chicago neighborhoods A vote advancing an ordinance that would give communities a say in the industries allowed around them could happen as soon as Thursday.

At city council now! Alders need to move this ordinance forward. chicago.suntimes.com/environment/...

Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment:

"To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."

Trump dismisses civil rights, fair housing cases in Chicago to focus on ‘real concerns’ HUD will stop monitoring a civil rights agreement over the General Iron matter and dropped a case alleging City Council members blocked affordable housing using "aldermanic prerogative" veto power.

I've spent the past several years covering two federal civil rights complaints in Chicago. Both affect vulnerable people and communities. Yesterday, Trump upended both of them, saying they aren't "real concerns." chicago.suntimes.com/environment/...

Agents Use Military-Style Force Against Protesters at L.A. Immigration Raid

Using military style force against protesters in LA on Americans who are peacefully protesting is not American. What ICE did in LA should alarm every American. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/u...

Regular day in the neighborhood

In response to RFK Jr., Pritzker to sign first in nation executive order protecting autism data The governor's office said the executive order is in response to rising concerns about efforts to create federal autism registries or databases without legal safeguards or accountability.

Thank you! @govpritzker.illinois.gov chicago.suntimes.com/politics/202...

Some Los Angeles fires victims are rebuilding their homes without gas appliances As Los Angeles rebuilds from the Eaton and Palisades fires, climate activists want to retire the gas utility pipelines and and hope to persuade people to rebuild homes as all-electric.

As Los Angeles rebuilds from the Eaton and Palisades fires, climate activists want to retire the gas utility pipelines and and hope to persuade people to rebuild homes as all-electric.

What’s up with the air quality today 😵‍💫

The days are long and the years are short for us too. I don’t go to baseball games but I see his slinky rodeo show in my living room daily. His milestones are hard earned and he speaks to us in a language of eye and body movements. Sounds pretty amazing to me

RFK Jr. said autistic people don’t work or play sports. They say he’s wrong. The health and human services secretary on Wednesday suggested that autistic children would never play baseball or pay taxes, enraging those in the community.

Autistic people and their loved ones have swiftly and publicly rejected statements by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, that people with autism will never play baseball, date, pay taxes or have a job.

Mayor Johnson pushes environmental equity law after feds allege racist policies An ordinance is expected to be introduced Wednesday. City Hall promised President Joe Biden’s administration that it would change its practice of dumping polluting businesses on low-income Black and L...

Two years after Chicago settled a federal complaint that alleged discriminatory placement of polluters in low-income communities, Mayor Brandon Johnson plans to introduce a proposed law to change city practices. chicago.suntimes.com/environment/...

A deadly mosquito-borne illness rises as the US cuts all climate and health funding Climate change is driving an explosion in dengue cases. Studying that connection is about to get much harder.

A deadly mosquito-borne illness rises as the US cuts all climate and health funding.

Climate change is driving an explosion in dengue cases. Studying that connection is about to get much harder.

grist.org/politics/den...

#Health #Dengue #Disease #Climate #Mosquitos

The Trump administration said that communities like ours don't exist. That a low income/mostly non white neighborhood doesn't have a disproportionate pollution problem. I will not let the legacy of Hazel fade, my children and I will honor her by fighting for justice for our communities.

Hazel Johnson is the Mother of Environmental Justice. She raised her family in Altgeld Gardens, just a few miles from where I live. Her husband died of cancer,homes there were built on toxic land. Countless generations, my children’s included are still living amongst the “toxic donut”.

Chicago ranked 7th most polluted major US city in 2024, down from 2nd the previous year, global report shows Chicago was the seventh-most polluted major city in the country in 2024, according to a global air quality report released Tuesday. The average annual concentration of small particulate matter in t…

Chicago was the seventh-most polluted major city in the country in 2024, according to a global air quality report released Tuesday.

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Maybe corny but it was helpful for me to hear Henry Rollins saying "this is not time to be dismayed, this is punk rock time, this is what Joe Strummer trained you for... You can be thunderous in your own life, to the eight people around you. That rubs off... Goodness is viral"

The Great Resegregation The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.

"The Great Resegregation is itself a radical attempt to socially engineer America to be poorer, whiter, less equal, and less democratic," @adamserwer.bsky.social writes.