Fundraiser & conversation with Davarian Baldwin: calling UofC folks & alumni!
[The event is over but we’d still love for you to contribute to the fundraiser here! And you can watch the recording at youtube.com/stopchicago]
Monday, April 24, 2023, 7-8:15pm CT: a virtual dialogue and activist reunion. Register above (free). Or if you want to support but can’t make it, let us know here!
UChicago alumni, students, faculty, staff, and community members, let’s get together, raise more hell, and raise more money! Like we did in 2021 and 2022. This year let’s…
(Re-)connect with current and past activists around the UofC.
Share and hear insights about STOP’s work and work like it.
CONTRIBUTE TO STOP AND SOUTH-SIDE POWER!
And we’ll hear and participate in conversation with Dr. Davarian Baldwin, facilitated by Michelle Lugalia-Hollon, BA’07, former policy director for San Antonio’s mayor. Dr. Baldwin is the author of the 2021 book In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities are Plundering Our Cities, which includes the chapter “The 800-Pound Gargoyle,” on the University of Chicago’s gentrification and policing of its Black neighbors. And he is Paul Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies at Trinity College.
Tenants working with UofC students started STOP almost 20 years ago as the Student Tenant Organizing Project. Since then, as Southside Together Organizing for Power, we have won so much, including a trauma center at the University, and a Community Benefits Agreement setting aside nearby land for affordable housing. Now our demands include reparations-scale funding from the University, like $1 billion to build affordable housing. (And we’re organizing to remove police from nearby schools!)
With a progressive Chicago mayor-elect and a new grad-student union at the University, this is an exciting moment, many years in the making. If you are or were an activist around the UofC – recently or decades ago – let’s get together, learn from each other, and help build on so much amazing work!
Register above to get the Zoom for April 24. Or if you can’t make it but can still contribute, let us know here!
Up to help? Be on the host committee if you can commit to bringing five people to the event, donate an amount meaningful to you, and be listed in event communications. (You don’t have to come to any meetings!) Email dominic@stopchicago.org if you’re up for this.
Host committee as of April 13: Brad Stolbach, Inhe Choi, Olivia Woollam, Natalie Naculich, Xinxin Du, Alex Goldenberg, Nora Thompson, Hamza Jilani, Shelby Marie Edwards, Neil Miller, Rob Hayes, Melia Allen, Noah Powell
Program committee: Sophie Salvato, Ben Ginzky, Duff Morton, William Thomas, Anna Nathanson, Dominic Surya
Can’t wait? Check out Prof. Baldwin’s "Why We Should Abolish Campus Police," “Higher Education's Racial Reckoning Reaches Far Beyond Slavery," "What Universities' Growing Power Means for Cities," and much more.