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Tag: community organizing

Chicago This Week Episode 6

Amelia Burns, Medill Reports

Pan-Womanist organization FURIE supports collective resistance with self-defense classes

By Natalya Carrico Medill Reports FURIE (Feminist Uprising to Resist Inequality and Exploitation) is a grassroots, Pan-Womanist organization from Chicago. In July 2017, FURIE began weekly women’s self-defense classes in Humboldt Park, which have now moved to a performing arts space, Voice of the City, in Logan Square.

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