Celebrating Wardell Lavender’s life: stories & chicken on June 5
We’ll have food at 12:30 and we’ll invite everyone to speak about Wardell at 1pm. Consider bringing a side-dish! And please bring a mask and if possible, a chair for yourself. Registration is optional.
Town hall on city AND STATE non-police response! This Tues., 5/25, 5-6pm.
We’ll hear about the Community Emergency Services and Support Act. It developed with the family of Stephon Watts, an autistic teenager killed by police in his home.
Meet Savannah Brown, our new housing organizer!
She shares: “I first got involved with STOP through Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100)'s participation in the CBA coalition. From the intergenerational participation to the town halls, I was hooked.”
Re-imagining school safety: town hall Tuesday, April 27, 5pm
This June, Hyde Park Academy’s Local School Council will vote on whether they want to keep police in the school, or put in place an alternative safety plan.
Petition — and rally on April 12, the 9-year clinic-closure anniversary
We demand that Mayor Lightfoot uphold her campaign promise to reopen the clinics and invest FEDERAL RELIEF FUNDS into City-run mental health services.
We’re hiring a housing organizer. Apply or share!
Help STOP take our CBA work to the next level and continue to build the power of low income and working-class Black tenants in Woodlawn and surrounding neighborhoods.
Students and Residents Allying for Woodlawn: panel, fundraiser, reunion 17 years on (Feb. 17)
On the famously neo-liberal University of Chicago campus, one series of student groups has allied with Black residents and labored for campaign after campaign, with STOP.
1/26 5-6pm: Town hall on re-opening schools
Through conversation with leaders in our neighborhood and its Hyde Park Academy, let's support and learn from the fight for safety -- this time safety from COVID and Chicago/CPS officials!
STOP’s treasurer: Will we sustain 2020’s outpouring of anger and support?
If you can, give today so that throughout 2021, we can turn 2020’s break-throughs into a new, better normal. stopchicago.org/donate
This Fri. @ 7: Holiday Zoom extravaganza
Kick back with fellow members and neighbors by sharing gratitude, music, a toast. Since we can’t gather in person… BYOB :)
Welcome our new public-health organizer, Cheryl Miller!
She has been active in social justice causes ranging from anti-war and peace movements, anti-domestic violence, and AIDS activism. Most recently, Cheryl helped to lead the fight to organize a union for cab drivers.
Lessons from fair-tax loss, for city/state budgeting: town hall Dec. 1, 5-6pm
Let's share lessons from November’s fair-tax loss and find ways to apply them to current city and state budgeting affected by the loss.
Sat. 1pm: Public-safety forum for Hyde Park Academy’s Local School Council
An open conversation about school safety and policing with candidates for our upcoming LSC election. Students, parents, teachers, school staff, and community members welcome.
11/18: Celebrate CBA victory with longtime organizers & hear what's next!
And engage fellow members and neighbors about what we've learned and how our coalition should move forward.
Sponsor our 2nd annual gala!
For as little as $50, your group or organization can enable this celebration and be recognized in our community.
Get tickets for our 2nd-annual gala - now virtual!
From our just-passed CBA housing preservation ordinance -- to our accelerating movement to defund police and fund health -- we have much to be thankful for and to build on.
We endorse #DefundCPD: our statement
There is a range of ideas in STOP on police reform… As an organization we strongly support this campaign and the idea that we spend too much on policing and not nearly enough on housing, healthcare, and the things our communities need.
10/27 town hall on youth's policing campaigns across Chicago
Join us for a virtual community conversation about #CPACnow, #EndSARs, and of course our #CopsOutofCPS campaigns.
Apply to be our public-health organizer!
The full-time organizer will lead the campaign for opening and fully funding the City’s public mental-health clinics, and will assist the youth-led campaign to remove police from schools and reinvest in restorative alternatives.
De-fund police, fund mental health: city-budget town hall on 9/29
Hear about the effort to replace Chicago police with mental-health professionals for first responses like 911 calls about mental-health crises -- by building on the City mental-health clinics for which STOP has advocated for years.