Chicago, pay attention to how your aldermen vote today. There are a series of decisions that will impact the future of vulnerable Black and Brown communities today at City Council. Here's the laydown.
☝🏽In Green v. Chicago (2020) a judge ordered the city to release all police complaint records to the public. Now the city is trying to get out of it.
Last Friday we saw just how violent the cops were able to get in public. What are they hiding from us?
✌🏽 Leaders at @LSNAChicago are organizing against the demolition of three flat multi family buildings that would make way to single unit houses, displacing even more Latinx people from Logan Square and another environmental disaster like Hilco.
👉🏽Seniors of @SeniorCaucus are fighting to get protections for nursing home residents so that our elderly have access to adequate PPE, adequate staffing, language access etc during this pandemic. 🤕🤒 Do you know where your alderman stands on this?
🙏🏽 City Council will also be voting on delaying evictions, so working class Black and Brown folks who have been laid off and unemployed are protected during this pandemic. We don't know what will happen when unemployment checks stop coming...
City Council is set to make decisions on all of these measures in just a few minutes. Do you know where your aldermen stand? 🤔
https://twitter.com/DixonRomeo/status/1285951504550105089?s=19
https://twitter.com/mairaka/status/1285974244061585408?s=19
BREAKING: IT'S OUR FIRST WIN OF THE DAY. Those who called in to make sure their aldermen would vote to #releasetherecords, they decided to delay the vote because of YOU. https://twitter.com/HeatherCherone/status/1285979635046584322?s=19
"We are facing a huge crisis where there are thousands of evictions being filed right now..the harshest thing we can experience as a community is evictions. The traumatic experience of a vulnerable person..." @ByronSigcho
https://twitter.com/LTBcoalition/status/1285972616474275840
"When we talk about the Census...the issue of displacement has an impact on that. It's one of the reasons we've seen so many working class Latinx families pushed out of neighborhoods. It's one of the reasons hundreds of thousands of Black Chicagoans pushed out," @CDRosa says.
https://twitter.com/AutonomousUnion/status/1285992266629349377
The Fair Notice ordinance passed! https://twitter.com/mdoukmas/status/1285992484804464641
The #SeniorSafetyOrdinance passed too! A win for @SeniorCaucus and our elderly and loved ones in senior buildings!
Communities are winning today, and it comes because of hard work Black Chicagoans are doing to fight.

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