Mayor Brandon Johnson has not made a public announcement if he will run for reelection in 2027. However, the transition of Johnson from union organizer to big city mayor has received the endorsement for reelection by a grass root political organization United Working Families (UWF).
The organization wasted no time in endorsing Johnson reelection, with a host of other local and national endorsers listed on Johnson campaign web site.
UWF has been active sense 2013 and was a major part of Johnson first run for Mayor. It’s agenda is not only political, the organization is associated with the Campaign to Free the Incarcerated Survivors of Police Torture (CFIST).
Chicago has a long history of police violence, torture, and cover-ups earning it the title "torture capital of the United States" (Flint Taylor), CFIST has pronounced. CFIST was formed to free wrongful Conviction survivors. One case is on the Cook County Courthouse with organizations such as MAMAS and Innocent Demand Justice, as well as the families and attorneys of the wrongfully incr hopes, not our fears. It is not our role to endorse in every race, but to win a city and a state for the many, not the few. We will out-organize our opponents, set the terms of the debate, and develop a pipeline and infrastructure that can support bold and inspiring new leadership.”
UWF says its path to victory lies with recruiting people, specifically communities of color, to a shared vision and strategy. ...to bend politics to a more equal, humane and just society which depends on mobilizing the full extent of our multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-generational and multi-lingual rank-and-file.
They posted encouraged of New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, went on to say, “...in Chicago, like NYC it was a people-powered platform that catapulted Mayor Johnson into office in 2023 despite massive corporate spending against him.
UWF is now embarking on the next phase, focusing on drawing more people town hall meetings to share their experiences with police torture and wrongful conviction. Indicating more people are attending meetings and showing up for court support consistently gaining many wins, and charging ahead.
UWF will hold their next convention Friday, April 17, 4:30pm, 1901 W Carroll Ave. Chicago.arcerated demanding that the State’s Attorney’s Office release loved ones from prison. In addition seeking for the mass exonerations of survivors of Chicago Police Sgt. Brian P. Forberg for locking up dozens of innocent people, included freed survivors of police torture such as David Lincoln, a survivor of Torture CPD cop Jon Burge.
The political side of UWF Membership Convention adopted the ‘Resolution on Movement Politics’ 9/22/18, stating “We make endorsements based on ou