A Critical Thinker’s Guide to Voting for Police Accountability in Chicago

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Chicago residents occupy Halsted and Diversey Streets for Police Oversight. Photo/Kathy Powers

This coming Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, for the first time in U.S. history, Chicagoans will elect three (3) district council members in each of the 22 police districts. These positions were created to hold the police accountable (See Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression: https://www.facebook.com/caarpr)

The fight for community control of the police has been ongoing in 50 years of struggle for the democratic right of the people to have a say in who police their communities and how their communities are policed.

Find your police district here: https://thetriibe.com/chicago-elections-2023/?emci=e619662a- a9b4-ed11-a8e0-00224832e811&emdi=69a741f9-a9b4-ed11-a8e0- 00224832e811&ceid=5720256#ward-map

Then read up on the candidates in your district here: https://thetriibe.com/2023/01/2023-chicago-police-district-councils-voter-guide/

Then pick your candidates and vote for them like your life depended upon it, because it does!

See you at the polls.

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Kathy Powers is a lifetime Chicagoan. At 50, Kathy speaks out as the voice of the people. She became a revolutionary activist whose lifelong fight raises unheard voices. She is the Health Care Desk on the People’s Tribune Editorial Board.

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