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#Chicago Mayor #BrandonJohnson@& #Illinois Gov #JBPritzker will welcome #Democrats to the host city in speeches on Mon & Tues respectively. The #convention will stream events on #Instagram, #YouTube & #TikTok.

The theme of the convention is “For the People, For Our Future.” Democrats are going to argue that a #HarrisWalz ticket is in the best interest of the American people & their #freedoms & #future, while putting the accomplishments of the #BidenHarris admin on display.

Chicago Is Considering Opening a Municipal Grocery Store

Led by labor-backed mayor Brandon Johnson, Chicago could become the first big city in the US to open a publicly owned grocery store.

To combat food deserts in Chicago, the city government is considering opening up a municipal grocery store. The Wall Street Journal recently had a piece about this initiative. In it, Joe Barrett tells the stories of a municipal grocery store in Erie, Kansas, which last year was $123,000 in the red and a municipal grocery store in St Paul, Kansas, which is profitable and has been in operation for sixteen years.

Similar municipal grocery stores exist elsewhere in the country, including in Baldwin, Florida, which was profiled in the Washington Post four years ago. In each case, a generally conservative rural municipality opens up a grocery store because nobody else would and because they feared that not having a grocery store could result in a death spiral of depopulation.

#USPol #Politics #News #Jacobin #Chicago #MunicipalGrocery
#BrandonJohnson #Socialism

jacobin.com/2023/10/chicago-mu

jacobin.comChicago Is Considering Opening a Municipal Grocery StoreLed by labor-backed mayor Brandon Johnson, Chicago could become the first big city in the US to open a publicly owned grocery store.

“This is about Black labor versus white wealth. That’s what this battle is about,” #BrandonJohnson responded. “This is about providing community access to the very public accommodations which Black people fought for, especially after emancipation. It’s what the descendants of slaves in this room are fighting for: public education, public transportation, affordable housing, healthcare and access to jobs.”

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