Organizers have brought renewed public scrutiny to environmental injustice, from the botched Hilco demolition that covered Little Village in dust to the owner of General Iron in East Side. The activism around police in schools forced votes on the issue. Instead of putting their faith in Biden, organizers said they’ll continue to put their faith in their own activism. “It could happen, but I’m not holding my breath.” I would love for Biden and Harris’s come down to actively enforce it and hold the city and the CPD to task,” Pulley said. “I don’t think they’ll cause as much damage as Trump would’ve done if he had been elected for another four years, but I am worried about what they won’t get done.” Credit: Mina Bloom/Block Club Chicago A #CopsOutSchools march in Logan Square.Īislinn Pulley, who serves as executive director of the Chicago Torture Justice Center, questioned how the Biden administration will work to enforce a federal consent decree designed to overhaul Chicago police policies and practices - reforms the department and city have been slow to implement. “I’m afraid that Biden and Harris won’t be held accountable,” said Chante, the mutual aid program coordinator for the Black- and trans-led group on Chicago’s South Side. Will a Biden-Harris administration improve the outlook on these critical issues for communities of color? Organizers like Tatyana Chante of Brave Space Alliance aren’t so sure. ![]() Time and again in 2020, they were stymied by officials near and far. ![]() Locally and nationally, activists have organized to help people as governments fumbled their responses to the coronavirus pandemic, the related economic crisis, social unrest over police shooting people and spiking gun violence. ENGLEWOOD - President-elect Joe Biden will take office Wednesday - but local activists are skeptical the new administration will mean big changes for Chicago’s Black and Latino neighborhoods.
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