Chicago Anti-Fascist Union is anti-fascist, a protest design, and a direct answer to the whole shut up and keep it cute routine.
This is for people who are not interested in blending in while fascists get louder. It is for the ones who know a shirt can be part of the day’s message before you even say a word. Coffee run, train platform, campus hallway, corner store, rally meetup, same energy.
The artwork carries the International Union of Anti-Fascists mark with Chicago and Local 312 at the bottom, then locks in the megaphone, broken chains, and raised fists like a quick visual roll call. It has that lightly distressed finish that feels lived in and worked through, not polished for approval.
Strange Gang made this for Chicago natives and Chicago lovers who are done treating anti-fascism like a private opinion. This is public. This is neighborhood level. This is what you throw on when your politics are not a weekend hobby.
It fits right in from Pilsen to Rogers Park, Logan Square to Hyde Park, Bridgeport to Uptown, Avondale to Albany Park. You can wear it to organize, to decompress after organizing, or to remind people in your orbit where you stand when the conversation gets slippery.
It also makes sense around UIC, DePaul, Loyola, UChicago, and Northwestern, where students and workers are constantly sorting out what solidarity looks like in real life instead of theory.
And because this is Chicago, the local pulse is always there. Cubs people, White Sox people, Bulls diehards, Bears loyalists, Blackhawks fans, Sky supporters, all of them know the city runs on identity and showing up. This design does the same thing, just with higher stakes.
If you want anti-fascist protest apparel that actually says something, Chicago Local 312 is the point.
