Daring to Make Things Right

Helen Shiller, author of the book “Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win”, who will be appearing at the Wisconsin Book Festival, joins the Thursday edition of the 8 O’Clock Buzz to talk about her decades of struggle to bring progressive politics to Chicago, following her activism on the UW-Madison campus in the late 1960’s.

Helen was a Chicago alder for twenty-five years and helped implement the progressive programs proposed by the late Chicago mayor Harold Washington despite organized opposition from a bloc of entrenched alders used to the politics of patronage.  Helen will be at the Madison Public Central Library on Friday, October 20, at 4:30 pm.

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