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Podcast: Women Over 70: Aging Reimagined
Episode: Helen Shiller: Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win
Description: Helen Shiller, age 75, was a six-term alderperson in Chicago’s poor and oppressed communitieswhere she advocated for radical changes to police misconduct, poverty, and racism. Starting inthe early 1970s, Helen’s activism took a page from the Black Panther Party’s 10 Point Program.Fifty years later she concluded her book---Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win: Five Decades ofResistance in Chicago’s Uptown Community—with the Party’s 10 Point Guide to Action. Uponleaving the City Council, Helen teamed up with her lawyer son to create the West Side Ce...