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Saturdays are for Progressive Victories
Saturdays are for Progressive Victories
Please join 33rd Ward Working Families on Saturdays this April to canvass for our endorsed 2022 candidates.We're working to elect progressive champions like U.S. congressional candidate Delia Ramirez.In Springfield, Delia has taken on the status quo and fought for youth and families, renters, and...
Read More Dec 9, 2025
The Fight Against Fascism / La Lucha Contra el Fascismo
The Fight Against Fascism / La Lucha Contra el Fascismo
I want to uplift the fact that everyone here is fighting fascism. This is the fight against fascism. We are witnessing fascism in front of our eyes. I want to make a little connection here, because a lot of what needed to be said has already been said by my friends behind me.I want to talk a litt...
Read More Dec 8, 2025
New Playgrounds, Streets, and Trees coming to 33rd Ward through Participatory Budgeting
New Playgrounds, Streets, and Trees coming to 33rd Ward through Participatory Budgeting
We’re getting new trees, playgrounds, and crosswalks through our 33rd Ward participatory budgeting process.Read more at Block Club Chicago: "Albany Park Getting More Public Spaces, Community Food Pantry Upgrades, Street Repairs in Latest Ward Budget"Participatory budgeting lets ward residents vot...
Read More Dec 9, 2025
VIDEO: An Activist's Guide to Zoning
VIDEO: An Activist's Guide to Zoning
Zoning and Land Use are key tools in maintaining, or changing, the character of Chicago's neighborhoods.Unfortunately, these processes are intentionally difficult for the average person to understand. This gives developers and other wealthy insiders an advantage over working-class communities, wh...
Read More Dec 9, 2025
The 33rd Ward is feeling the Bern
The 33rd Ward is feeling the Bern
Bernie Sanders is using his national platform to advance the issues that we care about and that would dramatically improve our communities: housing for all, a Green New Deal, immigrant rights, and putting power in the hands of working people, not corporations and billionaires.We’re in the fight l...
Read More Dec 9, 2025
An Important Year to Build our Progressive Movement
An Important Year to Build our Progressive Movement
The year ahead will be an important one—nationally as well as right here at home.The pandemic, now heading toward its third year, is posing new and ongoing dangers to our workplaces, schools, and communities. For many working people, the economic impact of COVID continues to take its toll, and ho...
Read More Dec 9, 2025
Solidarity Update
Solidarity Update
Earlier this month, CTU members endured a week-long lockout in the fight for school safety. This was a difficult fight, and we wanted to show some love and solidarity.33rd Working Families joined with our neighboring 35th and 39th Ward IPOs to pick up lunch for locked-out local school staff. Our ...
Read More Dec 9, 2025
A organized community is an strong community
A organized community is an strong community
Last week, President Trump announced plans for mass ICE raids aimed at cities including Chicago.On a day's notice, more than 100 volunteers moved into action to help keep our community safe. 33rd Ward Working Families members and allies knocked on thousands of doors across Albany Park to talk to ...
Read More Dec 9, 2025
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