>> As President-elect Donald Trump takes the oath of office on Monday, local activists say they plan to protest outside Trump Tower in downtown Chicago.

The group called the People's March for Justice is part of a national coalition fighting against the goals of the incoming administration.

And they say forming this alliance is just the start to accomplishing that.

Joining us is Eric of them was a member of the party for Socialism, Socialism and Liberation in Chicago.

One of the groups joining the protest.

Thank you very for joining us.

I want to start off.

was it important for you to gather people together to rally on Inauguration Day?

>> You know, it's we really wanted to make a strong showing.

And number this is a national mobilization that's having happening in over 75 cities across this country.

And just locally, we have over 60 organizations coming together and it's really important for us to make a strong showing not of the importance of Chicago and then saying it's going to be out there ground 0 for their deportation campaign, to really make a strong showing to say and show that the billionaire class and anti working class agenda and that these deportations rip apart families, families a call the central U.S. a few years ago to continue these.

Funding and arming of genocide in Palestine anywhere in the world got to make sure that they actually know that they don't have a Democratic mandate.

You're talking about thousands of people potentially showing up.

Yeah.

We imagine it's going to be thousands of people there.

Absolutely.

And not just here but across the country.

You know, you talked a little bit about it, but why bring all these different types of groups together?

>> You know, it's it's it's so important solidarity is our greatest power.

Really?

You know, we don't have the money as our working class.

And Tom, we're up against huge moneyed interests.

So the only way that we we can compete with that and stand up to such an agenda like theirs.

We have to come and bring all these different struggles together.

Help us see the struggles within each other so that we can kind of manifest the kind of power that's needed in order to stop.

You know, they're just 2025 and that billionaire John, talk about struggles and challenges.

You talked about Palestine, you talking about Chicago being one of the main places that Trump says that he is going to come here first for his ICE raids.

>> You know what other issues you plan to address at the rally?

Yeah.

You not just immigration and the antiwar situation.

It's going to be a lot of campaigns focusing on poverty and housing and education is gonna be a lot of teachers joining us as well.

You know, this administration is placing attacks out on nearly all of our communities.

You know, I'm Puerto Rican and I know that they have nothing in store for us, but, you know, further displacement and exploitation.

So and we got to come together using young man.

Why are you still passion?

And why is this important for you to speak out and gather people?

For me?

You know, it's very important for me for a long time in my life.

I think I learned early on that what happened our communities to happen to my island with something that was being done to us and that the only way that we can make a difference in only way that we've ever made a difference establish an to continue to defend our most basic democratic rice is to actually stand up and fight and work together.

When you say sometimes that's the hardest part to speak out.

I mean, you're very active on social media as well about your, you know your views.

Yeah, no, no.

I think that part comes easy.

To be honest, it's like a yearning that I have to absolutely full Fillion.

And I think that I organize with a lot of folks who feel exactly the same way and we keep each other going.

We keep each other strong, keep each other disciplines and keep each other pushing.

Now President Biden gave a warning of an oligarchy taking shape in the country in his in his farewell address last night.

Do you share the same concern?

What are your thoughts?

You know, it's I found it really interesting that he said that because, you know, this, this country was set up for an oligarchy and it was set up by rich merchants and bankers.

And so, yeah, you know, there's an oligarchy.

There's been an oligarchy.

It's a little interesting for him to say that.

But, you know, I do agree there car key that is kind of controlling in power of the government.

And that's exactly what we're here to oppose.

And to demonstrate that there's an independent working class politic out there.

That was really the one that we need to little don't to learn.

All of our key is how do you explain it to people?

Yeah.

And all of our key is essentially when a particular class money class is in control of a government, which I think that if you ask most Americans on the street, they will it make quite plainly, you so many of the groups involved are feeling.

>> You know, dissatisfied with both Democrats and Republicans.

Why, you know, why would you say that?

So?

Yeah, well, you know, >> every single administration and we can go by the different struggles continue to advance these issues that completely opposed to the to the working class.

we have rising costs of living rising rents and every single issue that there but it is war.

They're going to expanding more.

And, you know, next president has actually expanded deportations and he's carried out campaigns in our homelands in Latin America that cause people to come here in the first place.

whether it's Democrats or Republicans, they actually are quite bipartisan.

Many issues, despite with the kind of try to make us see.

So it's very important once again that we established an independent working class politic that is ours.

Representative our interests with the people want in housing, education and health care and not there's, you know, message say you want to convey to people me personally, I I think that.

That it's good to get out there that we need.

You, everyone and this fight.

If we're going achieve the world that we want.

And again, it's not one particular person or one group is gonna be able to do it.

It's going to take all of us.

So.

Everything that we have in this country, everything we've ever gains, everything that we enjoy has been achieved by the organizing of working class people just like us.

And so we need to get out there.

>> And talking about it work, what work is being done outside are protesting to engage people with the movement.

Oh, yeah, absolutely.

I mean, again, there's 60 plus organizations and they all kind of have their own way of they're reaching their bases.

But ice in particular.

>> We are always doing liberation forums were educating people.

We've been in particular talking about issues like immigration.

We have MLK and Martin Luther King Junior tomorrow actually, just to continue to educate people what their agenda is and where we need to be.

But also we've been having organizing meetings and inviting people, whether they're to coming realize themselves as actors in history and separate reaching out to their own communities.

And we do a lot of outreach that way.

We do our bills.

Film screenings here.

A lot of passion here.

Can you tell me like the details for Monday?

Yes, so it's going to be a white Hart, lower water Tower park.

The crew of Michigan Chicago Avenue.

11:00AM.

And Tom, we're gonna start there with the rally.

We're going to have hand warmers that could be called.

People need to dress as warm as they can.

We'll do what we can with hand