The Reparations Campaign 2014-2015 2014 January 2014 CTJM met with executive staff of Amnesty International, USA (AI) to discuss their upcoming annual conference in Chicago and their ideas for a new domestic program focused on human rights violations in the US. When AI launched this program, which included violations committed by law enforcement officials, they […]
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CTJM and the Call for Speculative Memorials 2011-2012 January 23, 2011 CTJM members, consisting of artists, activists, academics, and an attorney, began to meet and discuss the possibility and process of inviting people to submit proposals for speculative memorials for the Chicago Police torture cases based on CTJM co-founder Laurie Palmer’s show, Three Acres on
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The Call for Reparations 2004-2009 2004-2006 In 2004, Standish Willis, founder of Black People Against Police Torture, organized a group of attorneys, organizers, and human rights activists with the Midwest Coalition for Human Rights to raise the Burge torture cases in international fora. Advocates presented the cases to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in
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The Burge Torture Era 1972-1992 Between 1971-1992, Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge and men under his command tortured more than 100 Black and Brown people across Chicago’s south side. May 1972 Jon Burge was promoted to Chicago Police Detective and assigned to Area 2 on the south side of Chicago. Prior to joining the CPD,
