{"id":5380,"date":"2015-02-05T09:30:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T15:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=5380"},"modified":"2015-02-19T13:30:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T19:30:32","slug":"video-grassroots-group-canvasses-for-ramirez-rosa-in-35th-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/video-grassroots-group-canvasses-for-ramirez-rosa-in-35th-ward\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Grassroots group canvasses for Ramirez-Rosa in 35th Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Adam Banicki<\/p>\n

The Chicago City Council elections are weeks away and Reclaim Chicago<\/a> volunteers are canvassing the streets seeking support for new progressive candidates.<\/p>\n

Reclaim Chicago, a grassroots political organization, strives to elect new progressive candidates as the city\u2019s officials. Its goal: to get corporate interests out of city politics.
\n[vimeo 118047110 w=500 h=281]<\/p>\n

Abass Wane, originally from Senegal, Africa, is a volunteer with the organization. \u00a0He remembers Senegal for its dictators, but came to America to be free. Once here, he found that the corporations are the dictators. \u201cBasically I am running from whatever that was, coming right back into the lion\u2019s den,\u201d Wane said.<\/p>\n

Wane has been canvassing every weekend in the 35th Ward<\/a> for Carlos Ramirez-Rosa<\/a>. Ramirez-Rosa, a native Chicagoan, says he wants to improve the neighborhoods of the 35th Ward, which includes Albany Park, Irving Park, Hermosa and Logan Square.<\/p>\n

Ramirez-Rosa is challenging incumbent Ald. Rey Col\u00f3n and Ramirez-Rosa\u2019s message to the voters is simple: \u201cneighborhoods and families first, not big corporations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photo at top: Abass Wane canvases in the 35th ward. (Adam Banicki\/Medill)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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