St. Sabina to raise American flag upside down Monday in protest

CHICAGO — Father Michael Pfleger announced that St. Sabina will raise an American flag upside down Monday to protest the Trump administration.

The protest is a sign that “America is in a State of Emergency,” according to Pfleger.

It takes place at 11 a.m. in front of St. Sabina, located at 78th and Throop.

“While Medicare is at risk, thousands of government workers are being fired, the Department of Education is being eradicated, African, Haitian, Venezuelan, and Mexican individuals are being identified as criminals and scooped up like animals to be deported, a billionaire citizen has been given total access to U.S. citizens private information, an ethnic cleansing is being called for in Gaza, and countless other programs and individuals lives are at risk, America is in distress and in a State of Emergency. We will raise the flag upside down as a symbol of it and call others to do the same,” Pfleger wrote in the press release.