Community Activist and Founder of “Stop The Killing” Movement Announces Bid for 8th Ward Alderman Position

Mired in months of speculation, Faheem Shabazz has finally entered the race for the 8th Ward Alderman position, throwing a wrench into the political machine in Chicago and stunning both politicians and voters.

Chicago, IL (PRWEB) October 21, 2006 -- Mired in months of speculation, Faheem Shabazz has finally entered the race for the 8th Ward Alderman position, throwing a wrench into the political machine in Chicago and stunning both politicians and voters.

Unlike many of his competitors -- who he asserts have become “complacent in their incumbency” -- Shabazz is running as a powerful reformer. Shabazz, if elected, won't simply maintain the current status quo. He will act as an unstoppable force for social justice, changing Chicago and the 8th Ward permanently for the better.

What will some of these reforms include?

According to Shabazz, there are four objectives central to his future political career and to his core set of values: “education, unification, community safety, and taking our neighborhoods back from these gangs and drug distributors.” This is in stark contrast to the goals of other Chicago politicians, who have notoriously done nothing at all to tackle serious issues, unless their incumbency was seriously threatened.

Chicago politicians -- and politicians in general -- are well known for making dubious promises that they have no intention of upholding, provided that it increases their chances of getting elected. This is not so with Shabazz, who has spent much of his life prior to his political career advocating for community activism. Two popular movements which Shabazz has engineered are “Stop The Killing” movement, which aims to draw attention to Chicago's unacceptable murder rate; and the acclaimed “Saving The Children” movement, which aims to prevent senseless violence and gang activity in poor neighborhoods.

Shabazz is now advocating for a new project -- an attempt to get the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) to restore busing services to East 83rd Street on Chicago's South Side. He has a community march planned on Sunday, October 22, 2006.

“I see droves of elderly residents, school children, and mothers with infants and groceries and common working folks walking down East 83rd Street from or towards Jeffery to get to a bus line. Whether it’s 100 degrees or 10 below zero they walk because the CTA ran an 'experiment' in certain communities. This is unacceptable in our eyes and needs to be rectified,” says Shabazz. “Some of these individuals may have more than a mile to walk to get to their destination because there is no bus service. This is a great inconvenience for the residents of this community that rely on public transportation, not to mention the safety issues during early morning or late evening hours. The CTA needs to re-evaluate their route changes and correct the dilemma that they have caused for our residents who need their service on a daily basis.”

Keep an eye out for Shabazz in the upcoming election as he continues to flesh out his platform.

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