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In Pilsen, community effort builds to close Chicago’s last big scrap-metal shredder

Por: Chicago Sun Times Politics September 29, 2022

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At a West Side church last spring, Mary Gonzales trotted out a classic community organizing tactic, asking a group of elected officials and bureaucrats — one by one in front of a crowd of several hundred people — to pledge to do everything in their power to reduce pollution in the neighborhood. Each person was asked: “Will you, within your authority, act to reduce air pollution in the next two years?”Every one of them — members of the... + full article



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