About NA4J

Northside Action for Justice is a grassroots organization made up of low and moderate income people working together for community empowerment and social and economic justice. Action for Justice supports the basic human rights of men and women, addresses the root causes of poverty, promotes community development without displacement and mobilizes members for mutual support and campaigns for social and economic justice. NA4J is a member-driven direct action organization with a focus on community issues while working in coalition with housing, labor, religious, civil rights, peace and other progressive organizations.

Recent NA4J activities include:

-Stopping the privatization of a Chicago Park District facility in Rogers Park,
saving good jobs and maintaining community oversight of public facilities.

-Organizing tenants in affordable rental buildings at risk of conversion into
market rate units.

-Winning, by a 2-1 margin, a local referendum calling for 40% of TIF funds to be
allocated for affordable housing to households below the community median
income.

-Winning, by a 4-1 margin, a local referendum calling for companies that profit
from public subsidies to hire locally, pay a living wage, and respect the rights
of workers to organize.

-Organizing parents and young people in Uptown to begin a "Peace Patrol"
dialogue, and forming a "Copwatch" program to create safer and more accountable
community.

-Mobilizing in support of the workers at Republic Windows who occupied their
shuttered plant, won the benefits that they were owed, and are now working to
re-open the plant.

-Supporting efforts to improve Senn High School, based on parents and LSC plans.