Organizing Black tenants, mental-health patients/providers, and youth. Campaigning for @ObamaCBA, #TreatmentNotTrauma, #CopsOutCPS, and more. Since 2004.
Chicago, IL
Joined March 2009
- Tweets3.6K
- Following1.1K
- Followers5.2K
- Likes976
We’re so proud of our Health Justice Organizer, Cheryl Miller who has been recognized as one of 8 Leaders for A New Chicago by @FieldFoundation and @macfound. Congrats, Cheryl!! #LeadersForANewChicago
🗓️Southside Together April events!!
Save this post and come out this month with fellow community members working to stop the displacement of long-term residents of South Shore and Woodlawn!
"More than 30 people in formerly CKO-managed buildings have united to make numerous demands of the company and new property manager PIP, organizers said. They include:
- Money to help with moving costs.
- Assurances that PIP will let tenants break their leases without penalty
Here's how we met Kowboy. After years as a bus driver and EMT, he suffered a health condition that found him in a Woodlawn nursing home, where he faced abuse and neglect. He fought his way to recovery and organized his fellow residents to demand that they be treated with dignity.
Kowboy helped build the Mental Health Movement, and he was a member of @CCWchicago, the coalition for #TreatmentNotTrauma.
It is fitting that two weeks before he passed, he got to see the Roseland Clinic – the very clinic he chained himself to – finally re-opened.
Last Thursday, Southside Together and the social-justice movement in Chicago lost a giant: Ronald “Kowboy” Jackson. Even if you didn’t meet him, if you have been on a march in the last decade and a half, you have seen him or heard his voice through one of his several bullhorns.
Yesterday we woke up to a new reality. In the years ahead, we'll face fiercer attacks on our communities.
Here's another opportunity to process the election, at 7pm with @WorkingFamilies: mobilize.us/workingfamilies/…
And here are a few more thoughts from us: stopchicago.org/news/electio…
An opportunity to process the difficult results of Tuesday's election. m4bl.link/nov7
⚠️ Tap into strategy and connect to continue to build power - TODAY Nov 7th @ 6pm EST. ⚠️
The elections are over but collective organizing is not.
Join the M4BL COMMUNITY CALL to hear from Black organizing experts on mass criminalization, rights restoration, immigration, third party politics, and political accountability. Let's make moves together!
This call will be hosted by @lynaevanee and include an inspiring performance by @ajamonet, along with expert organizers and speakers such as @mauricewfp @repsummerlee @cliffalbright @abolitionistlc @legalhack @attorneynana @lolansangou and more!
Register NOW at
m4bl.link/nov7
Southside Together retweeted
Continuing to build people power for justice!
We're thrilled and humbled to share... We and South Shore partner Not Me We becoming one organization! Effective November 11, we'll be called Southside Together.
By uniting, we'll build more of the movement that our communities so urgently need. stopchicago.org/news/merger
We're thrilled and humbled to share... We and South Shore partner Not Me We becoming one organization! Effective November 11, we'll be called Southside Together.
By uniting, we'll build more of the movement that our communities so urgently need. stopchicago.org/news/merger
How is the sausage made??
Check out this news article on the never-ending base building, meetings, and organizing that powers our @ObamaCBA coalition! inthesetimes.com/article/oba…
