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PROPOSED RESOLUTION
DECLARING NOVEMBER 12 - 18, 2023, UNITED AGAINST HATE WEEK
WHEREAS, United Against Hate Week is celebrated by cities, counties, libraries, nonprofit organizations, and community institutions across the Country from November 12-18, 2023; and
WHEREAS, United Against Hate Week is a call for local civic action to stop the hate and implicit biases that are a dangerous threat to the safety and civility of our neighborhoods, towns, and cities; and
WHEREAS, United Against Hate Week emerged in 2017 from a Bay Area Cities poster campaign in response to white supremacist rallies; and
WHEREAS, Cook County United Against Hate was founded in 2022, following an antisemitic propaganda distribution across the northern suburbs; and
WHEREAS, Cook County United Against Hate catalyzes efforts to disrupt discrimination, empower everyone to champion social justice, and spur educational opportunities to learn about systematic racism; and
WHEREAS, Cook County rejects bias, bigotry, bullying, discrimination, hate, and racism, of any kind, and is committed to fighting injustice and intolerance; and
WHEREAS, Cook County is a sanctuary County, hereby joins with its community to welcome all people regardless of their race, religion, ethnicity, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, class, or other backgrounds; and
WHEREAS, despite concerted efforts and coalitions from Suffrage, the Chicano El Movimiento, and the Civil Rights Movement, to combating Islamophobia post 9/11, Black Lives Matter, and Stop AAPI Hate, hate crimes continue to rise and have more than doubled since 2014; and
WHEREAS, nationally according to the FBI, 11,634 hate crime incidents were reported in 2022, with increases in anti-Black, anti-Hispanic, antisemitic hate, homophobic, and anti-American Indian or Alaska Native over 2021. Anti-Muslim incidents in 2022 are overrepresented among victims; and
WHEREAS, anti-Black hate crimes were more than three times higher than the ne...
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