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The city has denied a group’s permit to hold a demonstration at Jane M. Byrne Plaza during the Democratic National Conventnion in August. A judge this week will decide whether an alternate route is acceptable.
In Chicago activist Andy Thayer’s experience, Democratic presidential administrations typically deliver the “bare minimum” while in office. But amid increasing attacks on the LGBTQ+ community and threats to abortion rights, Thayer doesn’t think the bare minimum is enough. “When (Democrats) get into office, the only pressure they feel is from the far right,” said Thayer, the co-founder of the .
Though the Democratic National Convention in Chicago is still seven months away, a coalition of progressive groups supporting abortion rights and LGBTQ equality.