Moral Mondays Illinois goes directly to jail

Our arrest happened much faster than we anticipated. As we unfurled our banner based on the “unjust scales” of Amos 8, the police moved in.

We had gathered at a magnificent skyscraper in Chicago’s financial district for a meeting with Ken Griffin, Illinois’s richest citizen and top financial contributor to Governor Bruce Rauner.

Following the Moral Mondays movement in North Carolina tradition, and with the blessing of its leader, William J. Barber II, Moral Mondays in Chicago began when people of faith and conscience felt an overwhelming need to demonstrate against the immoral budget proposed for the 2015-2016 fiscal year.