Chicago Reporter (https://www.chicagoreporter.com/tag/political-organizing/page/3/)
An excerpt from an upcoming book details the alliances that bolstered the campaign against predatory real estate practices in Chicago during the 1960s.
The co-editor of an upcoming book recounts the outset of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Union to End Slums campaign in Chicago.
Protesters in Ferguson must now raise their hands and pledge to engage in strategic political organizing in order to sustain their fight against injustice.
Some of Charlene Carruthers’ strongest memories from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago are of visiting the public aid office with her mother. Caseworkers spoke condescendingly from a desk so high it was difficult to see over. The desk reinforced the feeling of being talked down to. “I just remember as a child being very conscious of the differences when it came to class and race and even gender,” she said. “But I didn’t have those words at the time.”
Years later, Carruthers entered Illinois Wesleyan University as a pre-med student, hoping to become a surgeon.
The recent round of big-city elections seem to indicate a shifting political landscape. And, it appears to be heading leftward. These results play out nationally as discontent grows within Chicago’s progressive quarters.