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Jessie Fuentes: In Politics Out of Necessity
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After running and winning 26th Ward for the Democrats in Chicago, she is still skeptical of that party and has her feet firmly anchored in her community.
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Community Movement in Chicago Defeats Gentrification by Establishing Cultural Districts
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Jessie Fuentes and Cristina Pacione Zayas are two Puerto Rican politicians in Chicago who have experienced government abandonment in various stages of their lives, but who have also witnessed the power of community organizing that achieved anti-gentrification legislation.
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Moving Maps: Puerto Ricans Struggle for Their Place in Philadelphia
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The diaspora faces inequity and gentrification in the second US city with the largest Puerto Rican population.
