Chicago Against Trump’s Authoritarianism
As ICE violently snatches Chicagoans in broad daylight and seems to be waging war on the city itself, Chicago City Council member and socialist Anthony Quezada recounts how the city is pushing back.
3 Article(s) by: Anthony Joel Quezada
Anthony Joel Quezada is the alderperson for Chicago City Council’s Thirty-Fifth Ward.
Chicago Socialist Elected Official Anthony Quezada: “We Cannot Demobilize”
Working-class reformer Brandon Johnson is now Chicago’s mayor. The next task, as socialist elected official Anthony Quezada argues in an interview, is to bring more ordinary people into the political process so Johnson can actually pass sweeping reforms.
Anthony Quezada: “My Solidarity Is Not With Corporations. It’s With the Working Class”
Anthony Quezada is a socialist running for Cook County Board. Jacobin spoke with him about how watching luxury developers overrun his working-class Chicago neighborhood made him a socialist and the need to bring working people together around what unites them.