Calling UofC folks & alumni: fundraiser & conversation with Asha Ransby-Sporn!
On Zoom on Wednesday, May 29, 7-8:15pm CT.
Our gala is Nov. 3! Get your tickets
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!
Our gala is Nov. 3! Sponsor it
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.
Cops, clinics & mental-health crisis response: get the facts!
Individuals with untreated mental illness are 16 times more likely to be killed In a police encounter
Town hall: with a new mayor & alderpeople in office, what’s possible?
Zoom with us on Wednesday, May 31, 5:30-6:45pm!
Fundraiser & conversation with Davarian Baldwin: calling UofC folks & alumni!
On Zoom on Monday, April 24, 7-8:15pm CT.
Members’ conversation with Brazil’s Cássia Bechara: 3/27
IN PERSON: 5-6:30pm. VIRTUALLY: 5:30-6:30pm. By BLM and STOP, with a leader of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement.
6th Ward aldermanic forum on mental health: Feb. 4
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.
Our gala is Oct. 28! Get your tickets
Dinner, bar, program, music. At Chicago Theological Seminary, 1407 E 60th. It’s the 2022 Masquerade Gala: Steppin’ Out with STOP. Come, or sponsor!
Our gala is Oct. 28! Sponsor it
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 up to eight.
WE can vote on the clinics & housing we want! Zoom 10/25
Join our town hall at 6pm on October’s fourth Tuesday. We’ll talk about the referendum on mental-health clinics now on November 8 ballots, and an affordable-housing referendum we want on February 2023 ballots.
Zoom on re-opening clinics & the City budget: 9/27 6pm
We just put a mental-health referendum on key areas’ ballots! We now have more opportunity than ever to re-open clinics through annual budgeting this fall. Let’s discuss at our town hall.
Rally for CBA housing at the mayor’s house! Sat. 6/11
Dear Lightfoot: South Shore needs a CBA ordinance, and Woodlawn needs you to come through on the housing land you guaranteed in your 2020 Woodlawn ordinance!
Woodlawn schools loosing $1.3 million? Zoom Tuesday!
Register for our town hall 5/24 5-6:15pm with our youth organizers. Mayor Lightfoot wants to slash budgets at schools hit hardest by the pandemic - the South and West sides’.
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!