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.

Our gratitude to the 234 people and 12 grantors who supported us with funds.

As we close out this year and look to next, will you contribute to this growth with a donation? Read our 2022 highlights.

Dinner, bar, program, music. At Chicago Theological Seminary, 1407 E 60th. It’s the 2022 Masquerade Gala: Steppin’ Out with STOP. Come, or sponsor!

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.

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.

We have lost to gun violence Randy Pouncy, a STOP member for the last fourteen years. He was a real one: a leader in our trauma-center victory, the Woodlawn Restorative-Justice Hub, two trips to Honduras, and much more. With overflowing sadness, we write to remember him.