Born & Raised in Chicago, IL Cannabis Dispensary License Owner, Former Candidate for United States Congress, Registered Nurse
Born & Raised in Chicago, IL Cannabis Dispensary License Owner, Former Candidate for United States Congress, Registered Nurse
Groove Cigar Lounge
8611 South Stoney Island Avenue, Chicago, IL 60617
In person event to review the updates to the 2023 Illinois Social Equity Criteria Lottery ...
Groove Cigar Lounge
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Please join Juan Aguirre, BSN, RN, and our 100+ incubator participants to learn about the updates to the 2023 Social Equity Criteria Lottery...
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Registration link: https://tinyurl.com/CBLTHALL
In partnership with State Representative Lakeisha Collins, State Senator Mattie Hunter, State...
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State Representative Sonya Harper & Juan Aguirre, BSN, RN
Zoom Meeting ID: 821 5043 2288
Passcode: 417905
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Citlalin Theater
2005 S Blue Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60608
Jordan Melendez, Tiffany Reynolds, & Juan Aguirre, BSN, RN
Citlalin Theater
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On May 5th, 2022, 12,000 nurses converged on the nation’s capital to demand safe nurse to patient ratios, an end to workplace violence, & fair wages.
Crime is a byproduct of poverty, which is why the solution to both are unprecedented investments into new and modern career opportunities in emerging industries for low-income people.
Juan Aguirre envisions a more equitable and safer city realized by legislation introduced into the Chicago City Council to create a “Legacy to Legal” Cannabis Municipal Licensing program. Increasing the number of cannabis businesses owned by working class people will not only create generational wealth in the south and west sides of the city, but will also create thousands of new, high paying careers in the cannabis industry.
Career opportunities in the cannabis industry are not only limited to plant-touching operations, but also intersect numerous ancillary industries, such as real estate, science and healthcare, and technology for operating systems, inventory management, marketing, and packaging practices.
Chicago’s Legacy to Legal Cannabis Licensing Program will succeed in economically uplifting disenfranchised neighborhoods where the State of Illinois’ Social Equity Licensing program failed. Endorsed candidates are committed to championing legislation that will realize new career opportunities for communities that have historically suffered from disproportionate enforcement of cannabis prohibition.
On June 11th, 2022, 1,000 people gathered at Chicago's Federal Plaza to rally against gun violence, joining hundreds of other demonstrations across the world.
When a mom has to make the impossible decision between buying a gallon of gas or a gallon of milk, but a billionaire rakes in record profits, there is no arguing that there is something deeply flawed with our economic system. Soaring rates of inflation are economically suffocating blue collar, working class Americans, but the rich continue to get richer. Now is the time to unite generations, political parties, and socioeconomic classes to fight for legislation that works for the everyday American, instead of the everyday American corporation. Apart from legislation that raises the federal minimum wage to $20/hour, we must fight for revolutionary legislation that will end poverty as we know it in America. From Universal Basic Income to a 4-day-work-week, there is so much we can change to make life more fulfilling for working class people.
Since 2020, Juan has served as a board member at the National Diversity and Inclusion Cannabis Alliance (NDICA), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides expungement services, workforce development, job fairs, and a youth STEAM program in underserved communities nationwide. NDICA's Illinois programming and services are supported by the Restore, Reinvestment, and Renew (R3) grant awarded through the Lieutenant Governor's office.
In 2023, NDICA will roll out a new JOBS FOR PEACE program in Chicago's Little Village and Pilsen neighborhoods. The JOBS FOR PEACE program is funded through the Cook County Justice Advisory Council (JAC) Violence Prevention Grant.
Aguirre served as the Director of COVID-19 Operations at Alivio Medical Center, a federally qualified health center (FQHC), from 2020-2022. The COVID-19 department employed over 50 staff members funded through multiple multi-million dollar grants, which Aguirre personally managed. The grants gave Aguirre the opportunity to manage and oversee free public health services in Berwyn, Illinois and in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood: two COVID-19 drive-thru testing sites, a COVID-19 contact tracing team, a homebound vaccination program, and The City of Chicago's #1 performing mobile/pop-up vaccination program. Aguirre's team administered over 100,000 vaccinations in 2021.
Aguirre's team, assigned to the city's southwest region, is famous for vaccinating over 10,000 people at the Swap-O-Rama flea market in the Back of The Yards neighborhood. Aguirre proposed this unconventional location to the City of Chicago as a site for his team to service due to the heavy foot traffic by a population with low vaccination levels: Hispanics/Latinos. The City did not initially approve the site, but Aguirre persisted in his advocacy, citing the confidence he had in his team's ability to establish trust with the target population. 10,000 vaccinations later, it is clear that Aguirre has the creativity and charisma to lead efficient, high quality, and free public healthcare services wherever the people may be.
Aguirre's ability to revolutionize public health by meeting communities where they are uniquely qualifies him to lead the effort to revolutionize the country’s porous public health infrastructure. Aguirre will fight for legislation to ensure America is prepared for the next pandemic.
Nurses fought valiantly on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic in a war against an invisible enemy: a deadly virus. Our communities praised us, but our employers underpaid, under appreciated, and understaffed us. Despite the hardships we endured the day before, America expected us to wake up, thrown on our scrubs, don our PPE, and do it all over again. We were forced to take on unsafe nurse-to-patient ratios with no increase in pay, while healthcare executives rewarded themselves with bonuses made possible by record profit margins. In Washington, Aguirre will introduce legislation that will put an end to the exploitation of the nursing profession.
More often than not, the candidate who wins the election does not receive more than 50% of the total votes. Ranked-choice voting (RCV), also known as instant runoff voting, improves fairness in elections by allowing voters to rank candidates in order of preference, rather than just cast a single vote. Votes that do not help a voter’s top choice achieve a majority will count toward their second choice and so on. The first candidate to reach 51% or more votes wins.
Many low-income folks have spent years in prison for violating cannabis prohibition laws, and upon their release, they are shut out of the legal cannabis industry. Black, brown, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) are disproportionately arrested for cannabis possession and sale, while over 95% of cannabis company owners are rich and politically connected white males.
Juan Aguirre's success in acquiring cannabis licenses stems from his expertise regarding social equity laws and regulations and his experience building out and operating cannabis facilities. Juan's knowledge is desperately needed in the United States Congress, especially as it pertains to crafting a federal legalization bill rooted in social equity. Juan Aguirre's moral compass and subject matter expertise will ensure that when a President finally signs a bill to federally legalize cannabis, it will, without a doubt, contain the most social equity centric cannabis policy anyone has ever seen.
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