People's City Council

""We Want Our Money Back, for Our Schools, Our Housing, and Our Jobs."

This is a great opportunity for civic action and community participation. We will be talking to our elected officials about the core issues of living wage jobs, affordable housing, public safety and quality public schools, and connect our issues to questions of revenue. With the 2012 City of Chicago budget and CPS budget heating up, we know that our communities are all going to face major cuts unless we talk about revenue sources from the corporations and banks that got us in this mess in the first place.

The idea of July 7th is to get as many aldermen in the room as possible, and show that there is a city-wide, organized base of community and labor that cares about these issues, and that will be working to make sure that working families come before a corporate agenda. The theme is ""We Want Our Money Back, for Our Schools, Our Housing, and Our Jobs."

Please come out and show Chicago's Alderman our strength in numbers. Buses will leave from SWYC and Center of Change and take us to UIC Forum were we will meet up with 1000 other folks from across the city.

When: THURSDAY, JULY 7TH, Doors open @ 5:30pm
Where: UIC Forum

Bus leaves 6400 S. Kedzie at 4:30pm and
Bus leaves 2749 W. 63rd at 4:30pm