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Many folks have shared this thread, and asked what they can do to make up for the grave mistake of supporting #LoriLightfoot and believing she was a progressive. Great question. Here's some ideas:
1. Learn some history. #LoriLightfoot has a record of repression, gentrification, anti-Black violence. Black queer women organizers were the original folks who warned us of this. Supporting Black candidates is meaningless while ignoring Black community. advocate.com/commentary/201…
2. Think/act more critically around identity politics. The goal of #BlackLivesMatter and other popular movements isn't to get more people with oppressed identities into positions of power, but to uproot oppressive structures on the whole: jacobinmag.com/2015/05/baltim…
Anyone who believes #LoriLightfoot has the economic interests of POC in mind is deliberately ignoring nearly all her policy stances.
We aren't fighting to achieve middle-classness. We are fighting to stay alive. #DefundCPD #AbolishPolice #GoodMorningLori nytimes.com/interactive/20…
We aren't fighting to achieve middle-classness. We are fighting to stay alive. #DefundCPD #AbolishPolice #GoodMorningLori nytimes.com/interactive/20…
In recent months alone, #LoriLightfoot has halted reparations for Black residents, allowed developers to poison #LittleVillage, pushed to reopen businesses before the end of #COVID19, implemented a racist curfew...and she dares talk about our economic interests? #GoodMorningLori
We are TIRED of telling you #LoriLightfoot is a bigot, a corporate puppet, and a champion of austerity and police murder, hiding behind her individual identities as a Black queer woman. If you voted for her, YOU need to come get her. #DefundCPD #AbolishPolice #GoodMorningLori
Y'all. @chicagosmayor, @ChiPublicHealth, and @HilcoGlobal are trying to demolish the final building of the Crawford coal plant TOMORROW AT 6:30AM AND I AM LIVID. #FueraHilco #HellNoHilco #ChicagoUprising blockclubchicago.org/2020/05/29/aft…
This is the 3RD demolition to take place during COVID-19 without notice or consent from the #LittleVillage community. Cases skyrocketed directly after the first demolition that left the neighborhood in cloud of debris. TOTALLY HEINOUS. #FueraHilco #HellNoHilco #ChicagoUprising
If you are attending any actions today or this week, please lift up the demand #FueraHilco alongside #DefundPolice. Black and Brown communities unite against environmental racism and state violence on the West Side and everywhere! #HellNoHilco #ChicagoUprising #AbolishPolice
