Chicago Organizers Remind Us That Movement Building Happens Outside the DNC
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Chicago: the biggest city in the Midwest, hub for industrial unionism and also nursery for neoliberalism (through the Chicago school of economics). From this contradiction has emerged — most recently, in the dozen years since the landmark Chicago teacher’s strike — a rising tide of movement power. In 2023, Brandon Johnson, a former teachers union organizer backed by United Working Families…