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We offer to you on “World Quantum Day” this report-back of recent movement building and protest against the specter of Quantum in so-called Chicago.

On the spring equinox, March 20, 2025, opponents of a plan to build the 9 Billion dollar Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park(IQMP) on the shores of southern Lake Michigan or Mishigami, disrupted an event that the Chicago Architecture Center hosted to sell the project to the public.

A dozen people rallied outside of the entrance of the swank downtown offices of the Chicago Architecture Center Thursday, calling simultaneously for the whole project to be stopped entirely, but also to make sure that the people are not forgotten if developers were to go forward with terraforming the lakefront to make room for this massive tech campus, and that there are also plans to ensure that somehow it would benefit the people currently living in the neighborhoods and the local ecosystem, not corporate profit and militarization. Colorful banners and signs held by people had the words, “Invest in People, Not Quantum”, “Quantum = Displacement: The Lake is for the People, Not Your Supercomputer” and “Love Mishigami, Hate Killer Quantum” while others played music and chanted.

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Two people hold a banner reading "Enbridge out of the great lakes! Shut down line 5 now!" in front of a hotel

Evil Enbridge out of the Great Lakes! Shut Down Line 5 NOW! A noisy disruption swept through the cocktail reception of the LDC gas forum in Chicago. The 3 day forum consisted of talks from directors and players in the oil and gas industry, hype-ing false solutions like carbon capture technologies, and how to keep expanding the oil and gas industry further while we descend into a world of deeply uncertain futures as climate change reshapes and ravages ecosystems on a global level and biodiversity rapidly declines.

A group of people entered the hotel hosting the conference and crashed the attendee’s welcome reception of the 2024 LDC Mid-Continent Gas Conference. A banner with the words, “Enbridge Out of the Great Lakes, Shut Down Line 5 Now!” on one side and, “Evil Enbridge, Fuck Off!” on the other side was unfurled at the cocktail hour reception. People sang, and chanted with a bullhorn, played instruments, and left messages for Enbridge and other gas companies inside the hotel. After causing a ruckus inside, the group walked outside to the bar’s patio overlooking the Chicago River, and less than one mile from Lake Michigan, to “greet” more LDC conference attendees with noise, banners, and rowdy jeers. One person was arrested by the pigs for allegedly trespassing and released onsite.

Notably present, Enbridge, the pipeline company responsible for moving tar sands from Alberta, Canada to its conglomeration of pipelines surrounding the Great Lakes region, known as the “Lakehead pipeline system” hosted talks and presentations as a major contributor at the LDC gas forum. Enbridge directors even gave a girl-boss presentation named: “Empowering Women in Energy: Tomorrow is Together”, in an attempt to say their industry of death and destruction is at least inclusive to women and anyone else who wishes a oil & gas fueled speedy demise to human existence on this planet
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