06/06/2025On Wednesday, June 4, community organizations from around the city, including Organized Communities Against Deportation and 25th Ward IPO, sounded the alarm about a potential ICE raid at the Intensive Supervision Appearance Program (ISAP) office located at 2245 S. Michigan Ave.In respon...

ALBANY PARK, CHICAGO — On August 23, The Washington Post reported that Trump’s Pentagon has been planning the deployment of National Guard Troops to Chicago.Here is what we know, so far, and what we can expect, based on the troop deployment to LA and the occupation of Washington, DC.National Guar...

08/12/2025New data from the Chicago Police Department bears out what equity advocates have long known: investing in people, rather than punitive technologies, has fostered a dramatic reduction in violent crime.As reported by WTTW, nearly a year after the end of the widespread use of the multi-mil...

04/16/2025In the lead-up to our joint 10-year anniversary fundraiser on May 1, we will be sharing stories about key moments in our organizing history.=====In the summer of 2022, we were in a massive demobilization following Joe Biden’s election. The uprisings against the racist violence of the Un...

08/26/2025Illinois is betting your money on genocide (and they’re losing). The Illinois state pension system manages retirement money for all the public employees in the state. This system has a notorious funding crisis, meaning that many workers are unsure if they’ll receive the promised pension...

06/25/2025Congratulations to the Zohran Mamdani campaign for securing the Democratic nomination for New York mayor! Congratulations to Zohran himself, to every staffer, every endorsing organization, and to every volunteer who made this dream a reality.Congratulations to a campaign that reminded t...

06/17/2025As a Chicago ward organization that primarily focuses on elections, 33WF has been following the inspiring campaign of New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.Day in, day out, many of our members comb the news and social media, constantly dispirited by the genocide in Gaza, the co...

04/13/2025In the lead-up to our joint 10-year anniversary fundraiser on May 1, we will be sharing stories about key moments in our organizing history.=====In 2020, the world was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the 33rd Ward, this caused us to close our storefront office on Montrose Ave. Weeks fe...