Photos of our 2024 gala - where we raised $46k!!
That's double the $23,000 we raised last year. Thanks to CamMasterTe for photography.
See the grassroots leaders awarded at our gala—and support them!
Great photos featuring Sharron Reeves and many others.
Video and remarks from our merger gala
Alex Goldenberg: “Leaders from that fight twenty years ago, who stood in their dignity and said we are not going anywhere, are in this room today.”
Let’s debrief winning the latest CBA referendum!
Come on Nov. 21 at 6-7:30pm at S. Shore United Methodist. Almost 90% of voters said YES, City Council should pass protections to protect working-class renters and home-owners.
Thank you to our 2024 gala’s sponsors!
Leader sponsors: Woods Fund, Field Foundation
Advocate sponsors: Peters for Illinois, Groundswell Alliance, Chicago Teachers Union, Badonna Reingold, ARISE Consulting Inc.
From Tuesday’s election: the road ahead
The road ahead was already difficult, and now it will be harder. Still, there are some silver linings. Our coalition's referendum on the South Shore CBA ordinance won by nearly 90%.
Announcement by STOP and Not Me We: we’re merging!
Developers don’t stop at the border of our neighborhoods, and if we are going to challenge them, neither can we.
Sponsor STOP’s and Not Me We’s gala Friday!
Individuals, organizations, companies, unions, churches: Celebrate organizing wins by our tenants, mental-health advocates, and youth! You can be featured as a sponsor, or get a table seating eight.
Get your tickets: STOP’s and Not Me We’s gala is Friday!
Donate to support our work, or come celebrate our anniversaries and the merger we just announced! It’s November 1, 7-10pm at the South Shore Cultural Center.
Donate to Christiana & her evicted family
9/21 update: We’re working to raise $2000 for storage for Christiana’s and her tenants’ belongings, and for moving trucks used the day they were evicted. Can you help here? They’re so grateful for all your support.
Donate and act to #DefendChristiana
US Bank illegally foreclosed on Ms. Powell after it changed her family’s mortgage from FHA to conventional, ballooning payments from $800 to $3,500 a month. Donate, show up at the encampment at Christiana’s (the sheriff could come any day), sign this petition, and call officials.
Mayor announces re-opening of clinic our member chained himself to
THREE mental-health sites will open — one in Roseland. And police have been removed from "CARES" crisis response.
Rest in Power, Ms. Michele Williams
In speaking to the media, Ms. Williams would not sugar coat what was happening. She called the displacement and disinvestment in her community how she saw it: a genocide.
Calling UofC folks & alumni: fundraiser & conversation with Asha Ransby-Sporn!
[Update: watch the event’s speakers at youtube.com/stopchicago] On Zoom on Wednesday, May 29, 7-8:15pm CT.
We’re hiring a housing organizer. Apply or share!
The organizer will develop and implement leadership development, base-building, and campaign plans.
Let the memory of Carol Sawall Smith be a blessing
She was a STOP mental-health leader, STOP board member, artist, musician, and much more. She passed away last Friday.