Thanks to all our members and supporters for packing the house to celebrate our 19th anniversary. And thanks to Mr. Alvonte Ellis for taking these pictures!

“And now, after over ten years of fighting, the mayor just announced that he will re-open two clinics. This is a historic down-payment on his promise to re-open all the clinics, something people told us was impossible.”

Get a ticket to attend, or as a donation. Or get a table or sponsorship! We’ll have live music and buffet by Chef Dozzy Ibekwe. And we’ll celebrate STOP’s accomplishments, from housing votes to restorative justice!

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 seven.

Go deep on why we need mental-health crisis response WITHOUT police, and PUBLIC mental-health clinics.

Individuals with untreated mental illness are 16 times more likely to be killed In a police encounter

Updates from our Treatment Not Trauma summit, and from City’s budget forum on housing and other issues.

She’s been awarded by the Field and MacArthur foundations. Moreover, we’re sad but proud to share that she’s leaving STOP to become chief of staff to City Council’s education committee.

A STOP message, and neighborhood events.

From 1863: “All slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality… between former masters and slaves.”

Zoom with us on Wednesday, May 31, 5:30-6:45pm!

On Zoom on Monday, April 24, 7-8:15pm CT.

IN PERSON: 5-6:30pm. VIRTUALLY: 5:30-6:30pm. By BLM and STOP, with a leader of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement.

Thanks again to everyone who supported our annual fundraiser last October! Here are dozens of pictures from it.

After months of work, 90% of referendum voters in Tuesday’s election called on the City to put affordable housing at 63rd St and Blackstone Ave, and to pass an ordinance for South Shore like Woodlawn got in 2020.

Our member Ms. Tatum shared about the housing discrimination she faced when she worked at the University.

Our coalition is troubled by creation of a new crime: so-called battery against emergency services personnel. Under it, no actual physical contact is required to be charged with a misdemeanor and fined or jailed.

The referendum of voters in the 6th, 20th, 33rd Wards called for the City to re-open all of its closed mental-health centers — and to do so in support of police-free mental-health emergency response.

We’ll get to ask candidates what they’ll do in light of 6th Ward voting overwhelmingly that the City should re-open mental-health centers and run police-free mental-health emergency response.

Evelyn gave her time and devotion, in a special way, to STOP’s trauma-center campaign. She had difficulty walking, and often, at the campaign’s marches, she would be the very last person in the line. She always kept marching.