Chicago Latin@s building communities of resistance

“I arrived in NW Chicago about mid-day Friday. Howard and Andi Sass were gracious enough to let me stay at their house even though they were leaving town for the long weekend. I took 3 buses down to Pilsen to visit with Raul Raymundo, the longstanding charismatic ED of the Resurrection Project. The Resurrection Project’s mission is “to build relationships and challenge people to act on their faith and values to create healthy communities through organizing, education and community development.” I was deeply impressed with the success the RP has had in reaching their goals and in building a non-profit that is self-sustaining and not dependent on grant funding. As with my other conversations, I also learned about Raul’s familial history and how his parents’ values and experiences shaped him to be a community leader in the very neighborhood he grew up in after coming to the US at age seven. His father journeyed here in 1968 when he was recruited to work in a Chicago factory from Mexico City.”

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