Committees
Climate and Environmental Justice Committee:
Co-Chairs Ann Cibulskis and Sylvia Ewing
Our committee takes action in three buckets: engaging community voices who are working on key issues, identifying and placing climate policies within a racial, class and gender lens, and informing individuals about what commercial and industrial regulations need to happen to capture carbon and decrease overuse of materials and improve handling of toxins etc. in a way that focuses on righting the wrongs of our country's racist policies, and the actions they can take in their own lives and communities and to bring about legislation that improves communities.
Community Safety and Accountability Committee:
Co-Chairs Jane Ramsey and D. Clancy
Contributes to these issues by supporting sensible gun safety legislation at all levels of government; ensuring that the Department of Justice consent decree regarding Chicago Police Department reform is carried out; working with community groups and presenting speakers on these issues; increasing public and private investment in economically disadvantaged communities; and informing the CWTA general membership about them so that they can take educated action. Additionally, we actively support the newly-organized Chicago Police District Councils and the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability, which we helped create with a citywide coalition.
Health Committee:
Co-Chairs Mary Driscoll and Deb Rosenberg
Works in the movement for universal health care; focusing on health equity, standing for women’s health and reproductive justice, and opposing cuts in the ACA, Medicaid, and Medicare.
