** Please leave email for a Petition, we must get ReRan on November 5th Ballot 2024
** Please leave email for a Petition, we must get ReRan on November 5th Ballot 2024
ReRan is aiming to get a referendum on the November 5th ballot. ReRan needs over 100k signatures from registered voters in Chicago and Cook County Suburbs.
To sign the petition, call/text 224-370-1242 for pick-up or drop off locations.
We need completed petition by July 28 call for pick up or mail to:
(P.O.box 6271 River Forest il 60305)
Please help! Download Petition we need more signature August 5th is the deadline!!!
Please download petition and print. Send Petition to everyone that lives in Cook County. Ask them to get signatures from family and close friends that are registered to vote in Cook County, we need petition back by July 25,2024. You can mail petition P.Obox 6271 River Forest 60305 or call 773-817-3726
What is ReRAN?
The Reconstruction Era Reparation Act Now or ReRAN was created in 2023 by Black Chicagoans because of losing their homes due to the increase of county and city property taxes. Our solution is a demand that Cook County Descendants of Enslaved(DOS) pay NO Property Taxes as a part of Reparations.
The Reconstruction Era Reparation Act Now or ReRAN was created in 2023 by Cook County/ Chicagoans (DOS). ReRAN founders were fed up with so many Black people in the city losing their homes due to the increase of county and city property taxes.
According to Illinoisanswers.org, "In 2021, the housing equity advocacy group studied the 1,400 tax sale evictions enforced by the county sheriff over the last decade. More than 90% of evictions took place in neighborhoods where Black or Brown people make up the majority of residents. More than 70% of those evicted every year as a result of the tax sale process are Black" (2022).
We know one way to build generational wealth is through owning real estate. Historically, high taxes, along with other discriminatory housing practices, have hindered Black Chicagoans from maintaining home ownership, and subsequently, obstructed economic advancement. This program will shield Black Chicagoans from displacement by helping them keep their homes to pass down to their children and grandchildren. ReRAN is not a substitute for reparations. Rather, it is a start and support for reparations for Black Chicagoans and ultimately all Black People in the United States.
The upcoming elections in 2024 are key to the future of ReRAN as we will seek to gain support from incumbents and newly seeking elected officials to make ReRAN a policy.
The goal is to identify political officials and vote for those who will support and promote this policy as a part of their political agendas. Once elected, we, the citizens, must hold these elected officials accountable.
As a part of or in support of reparations for Black Chicagoans, we want Black Chicagoans to PAY NO PROPERTY TAXES. The ReRan formula for American Descendants of Enslaved people is below:
Shall the City of Chicago and Cook County reallocate three (3) cents collected from every
sales and use tax transaction that occurs in the City of Chicago and every sales and use tax
transaction that occurs in Cook County and deposit that revenue collected into a separate fund
within the Cook County budget with oversight from Reconstruction Era Reparation Act Now,
LLC, to be applied to pay the real estate property taxes of descendants of enslaved persons
emancipated by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and for services
needed to preserve the communities of the descendants of enslaved persons?
For example, if a person buys $100 worth of groceries in Chicago, the sales tax paid would be
$10.25. The Cook County/ReRAN Fund would receive three (3) cents from the $1.50 of sales
tax revenue collected by Chicago without increasing property taxes and sales and use taxes
paid. If a person buys $100 worth of groceries in Cook County, the Cook County/ReRAN
Fund would receive three (3) cents from the $1.75 sales tax revenue collected by Cook County
without increasing property and sales and use taxes paid.
Must Read!!!
41 Townships in Illinois don't pay Property Tax
Listen to ReRAN founder Howard Ray discussing reparations on www.themorninganswerchicago.com
Read an article about ReRan and Founder Howard Ray in The Atlanta Black Star
https://abc7chicago.com/slavery-reparations-chicago-news-property-taxes-definition/14515191/
Chicago, Illinois, United States
224-370-1242 info@reranforblacks.com ReRan P.O. Box6271 River Forest,Il 60305
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