A longtime environmental activist and lifelong Southeast resident, Oscar Sanchez made headlines in 2021 when he joined a group of Southeast siders in a hunger strike against Southside Recycling’s (then General Iron) proposed metal scrapping facility in his neighborhood. Sanchez launched his campaign on platform of “clean air, equitable education, walkable and accessible communities, affordable housing, sustainable and resilient workforce development and collective community safety,” he said in an interview with Block Club Chicago.

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