#CopsOutCPS wins the Woods Fund's Power of Community award
Ahead of Hearing on Violence we Demand Mental Health NOT Police
2020 struggle and victories - how we got here!
#TreatmentNotTrauma: The Debrief
Lessons from fair-tax loss, for city/state budgeting: STOP town hall
CPS students are taking over the street outside of BOE headquarters RIGHT NOW demanding that they vote #copsoutcps on Wednesday
STOP CBA Town Hall: What was won, what comes next?
In case you missed it, check out some highlights from last month's virtual town hall celebrating the CBA win! Hear details on the exact terms of the proposal, as well as community feedback on what comes next.
Today we celebrate a major victory. We have won an agreement on the CBA Housing Ordinance to stop displacement around the Obama Center. Read the CBA Coalition’s full statement below:
After 5 years of hard fought struggle, the Obama CBA Coalition and allies have won an agreement on the CBA Housing Ordinance. This is one of the most significant and aggressive affordable housing policies won in Chicago’s recent memory. As it stands, this ordinance has the potential to stop the displacement of thousands of low income and working class Black residents who live near the future Obama Presidential Center.
This comes at a time when we find ourselves facing crises on multiple fronts: the health and economic crisis of COVID-19 and the crisis of systemic racism. Systemic racism put nearly 10,000 black people at risk of being pushed out of Woodlawn, the neighborhood home to the imminent Obama Presidential Center. The same people who are essential to our city in the fight to survive COVID-19 are also many of the folks who make less than $50,000 a year. They are restaurant workers, homecare workers, grocery clerks and delivery drivers. As Woodlawn residents continue to fight for their lives in this pandemic, this ordinance comes as a welcome reprieve in the fight to keep a roof over their heads.
The CBA Housing Ordinance will set aside 52 vacant lots for real affordable housing, it will create a rehab program to preserve real affordable housing, it will give tenants the first right to purchase their homes if the owner decides to sell, it will provide grant money to help working class homeowners make repairs, and provide grant money for working class people to access homeownership. Make no mistake, this ordinance is not perfect; it does not answer all of our demands. The city is aware that there are still amendments that we will continue to push such as a right to return. This amendment will allow recently displaced Woodlawn residents to be given preference for newly built
We don't want them get #CPDoutofCPS #PoliceFreeSchools #DefundthePolice
Graduation March to Defund Police
Live on WGN Chanel 9 right now!
Ayodelle blessing #LightfootsTentCity with healing music...
Haroon Garel on STOP partnering with Humanity First for mutual aid
Especially now that so many stores are closed, we're grateful that we can bring our community and members food and supplies. Thanks for leadership by our member Haroon, and his org Humanity First USA!
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Mental-health pandemic town hall
Join our town hall on mental health in our lives, organizing, and pandemic!
Can they hear us now? #RighttoRecovery
