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...

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...

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...

Starting this week, the Brave Space Alliance food pantry hosted at our office has a new schedule.To donate groceries: Wednesdays from 11 am - 6 pm; Thursdays from 4 - 7 pmTo pick up groceries: Fridays from 12 - 2 pm and 4 - 6 pmThis remains an all-volunteer operation, so if you’d like to help out...

UPDATE 10/5/20:Thank you to all who have helped and donated! Please see our updated grocery donation and pickup hours.All this week, we're hosting a grocery drop-off and pick-up with our friends in Brave Space Alliance at our office at 3248 W Montrose.We have boxed and canned goods, toiletries an...

1.7 billion dollars and counting.This is what the city of Chicago will spend this year on policing—about 40 percent of the city's budget.Over the past few years, hundreds of millions of dollars have been added the police budget. These are hundreds of millions of dollars that did not go to communi...

The proposed ordinance would give the mayor expanded and unprecedented authority to allocate emergency funds and approve city contracts without approval from City Council.During Wednesday’s virtual City Council meeting, Aldermen Ray Lopez (15th) and Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35th), Rossana Rodriguez S...

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...