Palenque LSNA

05/29/2026

Our parents, teachers, students, youth, and community leaders are making their voices heard. This week, they wrote and delivered 150 letters to our local state elected officials urging them to pass a budget that puts people first, not billionaires, not corporations, and not special interests.

Our communities deserve fully funded schools, accessible healthcare, safe neighborhoods, youth opportunities, and the resources we need to thrive.

A budget is a reflection of our values. We are calling on our elected officials to choose working families over the ultra-wealthy.
Parent Mentor Program - Illinois
Illinois Access to Justice
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Grow Your Own Teachers Illinois

05/29/2026

Thank you to everyone who came out in support and who shared inspiring powerful words with us yesterday! We are still fighting and pushing for PROGRESIVE REVENUE SOLUTIONS! Invest in our communities, our schools, our equitable housing!

If lawmakers make the ultra-rich pay their fair share, Illinois can fully fund the services our communities need.

✊ Take action now: bit.ly/ILmakethempay

05/29/2026

"Parents, educators, students, organizers, and local leaders came together to voice concerns that the legislation, as currently written, could accelerate displacement and gentrification by allowing market-rate housing developments to move forward without affordability requirements or meaningful community input.

Mia Carbajal of the Here to Stay Community Land Trust said communities are already creating solutions through local organizing, community land trusts, and affordable housing developments like Encuentro Square. “The housing crisis is real, and we do need more housing,” Carbajal said. “But deregulation alone will not solve this crisis.”

“Housing policy should not only ask how much housing we build,” she added. “It should ask who gets to live in the housing we build.”'

LUCHA & Association House joined in a rally calling on Gov. Pritzker to reconsider the impact of the proposed BUILD Act on affordable housing.

05/28/2026

Palenque LSNA is hiring for a Grants Finance Manager position. Learn more about the role and how to apply on our website.

05/27/2026

While working families lose SNAP benefits, healthcare, and school funding, billionaires keep getting richer. Trump’s tax giveaways handed Illinois’s wealthiest a $9 billion break.
Illinois deserves better.

We CAN invest in healthcare, education, childcare, and thriving communities — but only if lawmakers stop protecting the ultra-wealthy.

💥 Tell your legislators: MAKE THEM PAY. bit.ly/ILmakethempay

05/27/2026

Northwest Side Continues to Fight for Strong Schools, Anti-Displacement, and Thriving Communities by Demanding Progressive Revenue Solutions!!

Illinois needs to fairly tax ultra rich corporations so we can fairly fund our schools. The northwest side of Chicago is important in this push to get a fair state budget because we have two very important representatives working on this year’s state budget.

🗓️Thursday, May 28th at 10:00 AM
📍Corner of N. Sawyer Ave. and Wellington Ave
📢 Northwest Side Electeds, Community Leaders, and Principals

05/27/2026

Illinois families are being asked to survive with less healthcare, less food assistance, and underfunded schools.

At the same time? Trump handed the wealthiest Illinoisans a $9 BILLION tax break.

We don’t have a shortage of money — we have a shortage of political courage. Our lawmakers can fully fund healthcare, childcare, education, and essential services if they make the ultra-wealthy pay their fair share.

📢 Ask your legislator where they stand:
bit.ly/ILmakethempay

DEMAND PROGRESSIVE REVENU SOLUTIONS NOW!

05/26/2026

Parent Mentors spend countless hours inside classrooms supporting students and teachers firsthand. Every day they see the urgent need for investment in schools.

Demand progressive revenue solutions now! 📢

05/26/2026

📢Hear from Principals from Darwin and Brennan on what is at stake with Community School budget cuts in IL! Contact your legislators today and demand we tax large corporations and billionaires!
📞Especially reach out to Representatives Eva Dina Delgado and Will Guzzardi.

WE NEED PROGRESSIVE REVENUE SOLUTIONS NOW!

05/22/2026

📢GIVE US PROGRESSIVE REVENUE SOLUTIONS NOW!! 📢

Palenque LSNA held a press conference this morning outside of Darwin Elementary demanding we get progressive revenue solutions NOW! We cannot see more cuts to our schools. Principals, Parent Mentors, Youth, Senator Graciela Guzmán, CTU representatives all spoke out expressing the urgent need to SUPPORT OUR COMMUNITIES and to stop protecting the rich!

Contact your legislators and DEMAND we get Progressive Revenue Solutions NOW! 🦋