Ezra Adamski on Lobbying Day in Springfield

| By JCUA
Categories: Immigration Justice
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It’s easy to forget how great the Midwestern emptiness is once you escape Chicago’s city limits. The city keeps us alive, with constant light and noise and movement; out here, the horizon and the highway are one and the same. A gray and rainy dawn broke over our drive towards Springfield. JCUA members were making …

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We won! Celebrating an amazing organizing victory with the passage of ECPS

| By Jonathan Elbaz
Categories: Grassroots Organizing
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By Jackie Baldwin, JCUA Community Organizer For five years, the JCUA community has worked to transform public safety through powerful civilian oversight over the Chicago Police Department. The people of Chicago — particularly the Black and Brown communities facing police misconduct and brutality — were demanding change, calling for greater accountability and a larger role in shaping the …

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JCUA to work on addressing homelessness through Bring Chicago Home campaign

| By Jonathan Elbaz
Categories: Grassroots Organizing
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Following a two-month selection process of proposals, presentations, and deliberation, the JCUA membership has voted to join Bring Chicago Home (BCH), a grassroots movement to combat homelessness in Chicago. The campaign seeks to create a dedicated revenue stream for permanent supportive housing by restructuring the way the city collects taxes when properties are bought and sold. Currently, Chicago collects a 1.2 percent tax on …

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