Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win, Helen Shiller
Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win, Helen Shiller
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Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win
Five Decades of Resistance in Chicago's Uptown Community

Author: Helen Shiller

Narrator: Helen Shiller

Unabridged: 15 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/08/2023

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win tells the fascinating true story of an individual radical organizer turned independent Chicago city council member, and her forty year struggle for justice in Chicago.

Helen Shiller went from radical anti-war activist in Wisconsin, to a member of a collective of white allies of the Black Panther Party in Chicago, to an elected city council person who helped break the back of the racialized opposition to Harold Washington, Chicago's first Black mayor.

Shiller participated, when few others did, in the historic fight against the gentrification of a unique economically and racially mixed Chicago community on the Northside. With insight into historic community organizing and political battles in Chicago from the 1970s through 2010, this book details numerous policy fights and conflicts in Chicago during this time, illuminating recurrent political themes and battles that remain relevant to this day.

Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win is a compelling, insightful, must-listen for all those struggling for a better world today.

About Helen Shiller

Helen Shiller, raised by migrant Jewish parents, was radicalized by the anti-war and civil rights movements. Shiller was in a collective of whites aligned with the Black Panther Party in Chicago. Beginning in 1987, Shiller was a radical Chicago alderperson for twenty-four years.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Drew

Shiller uses her life lived experience as a bureaucracy buster in Uptown, Chicago, and how these local neighborhood struggles divulge a greater collective national truth. Much more than an autobiography but a story telling of a community’s obstacles from the lense of a dedicated activist and social......more

Goodreads review by Deborah

I loved the parts about Harold Washington. Thanks for sharing details of your relationship with him. I appreciated Intimate details about parenting and struggling to educate in the midst of a dysfunctional school system. Thanks for the history about the AIDS finding struggle. There is a lot to learn......more

Goodreads review by Alan

Helen Shiller was already a radical when she moved to Uptown in the early 70’s. After over a decade of grassroots organizing, she became Alderman for the 46th Ward, where she held office for 24 years. Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win takes us from her childhood in New York to radicalization in Madis......more

Goodreads review by Eric

Powerful book by Helen Shiller as a young black boy to man having grown up in Chicago many of the people named him the book I know personally and or have been in spaces or heard of. As a kids my parents raised my in the civil rights movement and the book captures some of the same struggles that Hele......more

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