Emma Tai started out fighting school closings and ended up helping elect a mayor. – Chicago Magazine

"Electoral campaigns last maybe three to six months. But in terms of fundamentally changing the political terrain of our city or our country, you can’t do that in three months. That is a project of many, many years," said Emma Tai, executive director of United Working Families, a political advocacy organization started in 2014 by social-welfare and labor groups, including the Chicago Teachers Union.
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debtsor
2 years ago

The people who fight to keep failing underutilized schools open are the same kind of people who spend half their monthly take-home income on a new car.

Giddyap
2 years ago

This b is typical of the filthy communist cockroaches that will be running Chicago into the ground

Fullbladder
2 years ago
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Useful idiots.

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