Get your ticket for Real Tenants Cook on June 4
The annual summer kick-off by our Chicago Tenants Council. Back after two years’ COVID and better than ever!
Video: Jay Travis and Ryan LH on allies and UofC organizing
“It's going to require us to really fight for that vision long-term... How we resist together over time [is by] centering people most impacted and treating each other with respect.”
Three generations on reparations & UofC’s racism: a reunion & fundraiser
On Zoom on May 5. Jay Travis will speak. STOP is demanding housing reparations from UChicago. Let’s reconnect and share how recent decades’ allies have contributed to this!
Zoom with allies fighting surveillance & solitary confinement!
On 4/26 at 6pm, let’s discuss how work against ShotSpotter and solitary confinement connect to our work for community-led alternatives to policing and prisons.
This Tuesday & Thursday, call for affordable-housing land!
Join our town hall on 3/22 at 6pm. And join ward night on 3/24 at 6pm with the City’s housing department.
6th ward: Zoom on Treatment Not Trauma
City Hall is holding a hearing on an ordinance to help fund a robust PUBLIC mental health care system. Join us on Wed. 2/23, especially if you live around Chatham, Englewood, Grand Crossing, or Auburn-Gresham!
School election + #CopsOutCPS: town hall 2/22
Get updates from our youth organizers - on the fight for a police-free Hyde Park Academy, and on the upcoming Local School Council election!
Join 2022’s first town hall: CBA Zoom on 1/25 5pm
Join STOP at our upcoming town hall for an update on the Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) fight for the 52 City-owned lots the ordinance committed for affordable housing.
Join us for a holiday toast: today 6:30-7 on Zoom
We’ll say a few words in celebration of you — our members — and your dedication throughout 2021!
Celebrate and de-brief our clinic victory: 11/30 5pm on Zoom
For the first time since Mayor Emanuel closed most of Chicago's clinics a decade ago, we and our coalitions won an increase in spending on City mental-health clinics.
$2 billion Chicago Rescue Plan: town hall on 9/28 6pm
Register to Zoom about an ordinance that would direct dollars from the Biden administration to communities hit hardest by disinvestment and now the pandemic.
Come activate a Woodlawn lot for the CBA this Saturday!
Join a rally, press conference, and canvass for affordable housing on September 18, 2-6pm, at 63rd and University.
Chicago’s budget + $1.8 billion for communities? Town hall on 8/24 6pm!
Register to Zoom about how we can push the money towards what our communities need, like police-free mental-health crisis response — #TreatmentNotTrauma.
New-member orientation: 7/27 Zoom with STOP leaders!
STOP is more than campaigns, like CBA. STOP is a membership organization, led by community members. Join this town hall to meet with STOP leaders and learn how you can join.
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.
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.
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!
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 :)
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.