Opportunities for Resistance
Make Your Voice Heard!
Have an opinion about policies in our city, state or country? Want to praise a public servant for enacting good policies, or make suggestions for better policies? Here are ways to contact your elected representatives in various levels of government.
Federal Government
Executive Branch
Email the White House at https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact
Call the White House
Comments: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
Write the White House at
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Legislative Branch
U.S. Senators from Illinois
Senator Dick Durbin
https://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact/email
Senator Tammy Duckworth
https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/content/contact-senator
U.S. Representative
for the 9th District of Illinois (containing Loyola’s Lake Shore campus)
Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky
https://schakowsky.house.gov/contact/
or, if you live in another district, find your representative here by zip code
https://www.house.gov/representatives/find/
Illinois State Government
Governor Bruce Rauner
https://www.illinois.gov/gov/contactus/Pages/default.aspx
State Senator from Illinois Senate District 7 (containing Loyola’s Lake Shore campus)
Senator Heather Steans
http://www.senatorsteans.com/contact-us
Representative from Illinois House District 14 (containing Loyola’s Lake Shore campus)
Representative Kelly Cassidy
http://www.repcassidy.com/contact/
or, if you live in other districts, find your State Senator or Representative here
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/maps/
City of Chicago
Mayor Rahm Emanuel
Email at [email protected]
Write to at
Office of the Mayor
121 N LaSalle Street
Chicago City Hall 4th Floor
Chicago, IL 60602
Alderman from Chicago’s 49th ward (containing Loyola’s Lake Shore campus north of Sheridan)
Alderman Joseph Moore
https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/about/wards/49.html
Alderman from Chicago’s 48th ward (containing Loyola’s Lake Shore campus south of Sheridan)
Alderman Harry Osterman
https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/about/wards/48.html
or, if you live in another ward, find your ward and Alderman here
https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/about/wards.htm
Have an opinion about policies in our city, state or country? Want to praise a public servant for enacting good policies, or make suggestions for better policies? Here are ways to contact your elected representatives in various levels of government.
Federal Government
Executive Branch
Email the White House at https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact
Call the White House
Comments: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
Write the White House at
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Legislative Branch
U.S. Senators from Illinois
Senator Dick Durbin
https://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact/email
Senator Tammy Duckworth
https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/content/contact-senator
U.S. Representative
for the 9th District of Illinois (containing Loyola’s Lake Shore campus)
Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky
https://schakowsky.house.gov/contact/
or, if you live in another district, find your representative here by zip code
https://www.house.gov/representatives/find/
Illinois State Government
Governor Bruce Rauner
https://www.illinois.gov/gov/contactus/Pages/default.aspx
State Senator from Illinois Senate District 7 (containing Loyola’s Lake Shore campus)
Senator Heather Steans
http://www.senatorsteans.com/contact-us
Representative from Illinois House District 14 (containing Loyola’s Lake Shore campus)
Representative Kelly Cassidy
http://www.repcassidy.com/contact/
or, if you live in other districts, find your State Senator or Representative here
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/maps/
City of Chicago
Mayor Rahm Emanuel
Email at [email protected]
Write to at
Office of the Mayor
121 N LaSalle Street
Chicago City Hall 4th Floor
Chicago, IL 60602
Alderman from Chicago’s 49th ward (containing Loyola’s Lake Shore campus north of Sheridan)
Alderman Joseph Moore
https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/about/wards/49.html
Alderman from Chicago’s 48th ward (containing Loyola’s Lake Shore campus south of Sheridan)
Alderman Harry Osterman
https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/about/wards/48.html
or, if you live in another ward, find your ward and Alderman here
https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/about/wards.htm
Exercise your power for social change.
"Mercy.
It is about how we care for the least among us -- not how we treat the powerful.
It calls on us to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and comfort the sick.
It is kindness. It is grace.
There is no mercy in a system that makes health care a luxury. There is no mercy in a country that turns its back on those that are most in need of protection: the elderly, the poor, the sick, and the suffering.
There is no mercy in a cold shoulder to the mentally ill.
There is no mercy in a policy that takes for granted the sweat, the tears, and the sacrifice that working Americans shed every day so that they might care for their families' basic needs: food, shelter, health, and hope for tomorrow." --Congressman Joe Kennedy III
It is about how we care for the least among us -- not how we treat the powerful.
It calls on us to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and comfort the sick.
It is kindness. It is grace.
There is no mercy in a system that makes health care a luxury. There is no mercy in a country that turns its back on those that are most in need of protection: the elderly, the poor, the sick, and the suffering.
There is no mercy in a cold shoulder to the mentally ill.
There is no mercy in a policy that takes for granted the sweat, the tears, and the sacrifice that working Americans shed every day so that they might care for their families' basic needs: food, shelter, health, and hope for tomorrow." --Congressman Joe Kennedy III
Check Out the Injustice Boycott
http://www.injusticeboycott.com/
Co-developed by Shaun King to mobilize people to take daily steps of action to "boycott cities, states, businesses, and institutions which are either willfully indifferent to police brutality and racial injustice or are deliberately destructive."
http://www.injusticeboycott.com/
Co-developed by Shaun King to mobilize people to take daily steps of action to "boycott cities, states, businesses, and institutions which are either willfully indifferent to police brutality and racial injustice or are deliberately destructive."