Students for Health Equity

05/09/2024

The University of Chicago's president accused his students’ encampment of “using force rather than reason”... So yesterday he sent in dozens of police at 4:30am to raid and demolish the encampment.

Meanwhile Gaza has no fully-functioning hospitals or universities, due not least to weapons made by U.S. companies that UChicago invests in and profits from. SIGN THIS PETITION: bit.ly/AlumniGazaSolidarity

The university has presented itself as a national model for free expression on campus. Its president said that the encampment “cannot continue.”

04/23/2022

Can communities around the University of Chicago get the University to give $1 billion for reparations for affordable housing - or $50 million a year for 20 years? Well, we got the University to open a trauma center...

Let's reconnect and contribute to this new campaign! Zoom with us on 5/5 at 7pm CT. Among much else, we'll hear from Jay Travis, SSA alum, former KOCO director, and trauma-center advocate - and from a STOP housing organizer! Register at stopchicago.org/news/uofc22

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!

04/21/2021

02/10/2021

Let's get back together!

Next Wednesday evening, hang out with Vee Moore, Duff Morton, Toussaint Losier, Natalie Naculich, William Thomas - and YOU?

REGISTER BELOW for Wed., Feb. 17 at 7-8:30pm CT by video/call. From Duff Morton, Natalie Naculich, Adam Light, William Thomas, and Dominic Surya… To fellow students: Can you come to this panel? To fellow alumni: Can you join this reunion and fundraiser? To all: Can you invite students and

12/07/2020

This just in. And what better time than now to support the Trauma Care Coalition's lead organizations once more!

Today is the last day a foundation is doubling donations to Kenwood Oakland Community Organization and Southside Together Organizing for Power - STOP. kocoonline.org/donate, stopchicago.org/donate

On average, trauma patients in South Shore reached a hospital nearly nine minutes faster the year after the trauma center opened compared to the year prior.

04/27/2020

Support our alum Anna, and fight mass incarceration!

Harvard Law School is considering expelling her -- six months after silently protesting its investment in prisons, and just before she graduates. (Remind you of any "peer institution"?)

PETITION TO DROP THE HARVARD LAW SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD INVESTIGATION To: The Harvard Law School Administrative Board, Professor Ruth Okediji (Acting Chair), Professor Richard Lazarus, Professor Andy Kaufman, Assistant Dean Lisa Burns, Associate Dean Catherine Claypoole, Dean John Manning, Dean...

05/05/2019

Again, why the South Side has especially needed a trauma center:

Compared to average trauma centers, ours has more than three times the rate of penetrating trauma -- here, mostly gun-shot wounds.

At the lecture commemorating a year of the Trauma Center Operation, panelists discussed the Violence Recovery Program and looked ahead to possible partnerships with the UChicago Crime Lab.

04/11/2019

🚨🚨🚨National Call to Action🚨🚨🚨
A former SHE member has alerted us to a critical campaign that deserves national attention: Masonique Saunders, a 17-year-old girl, has been in jail since December in Columbus, Ohio, because the police killed her boyfriend are now trying to charge /her/ with the murder. We need to put pressure on prosecutor Ron O'Brien. Please read the story, sign the petition, and contribute if you can to the fundraiser.

(1) The story: https://www.theroot.com/police-shoot-ohio-teen-charge-his-teenage-girlfriend-w-1831145342

(2) The petition: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeovO-eKr3cB9lYxK3UjGUG0OF5UnGkwafYkKJwrN5SbOrU9w/viewform

(3) The fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/free-masonique-legal-fees

**Please also message us if you or a campaign you are affiliated with have the capacity to get on a national organizing call to support this campaign, and we'll pass on the info.

After shooting and killing a 16-year-old during a sting operation, police in Columbus, Ohio have charged another 16-year-old girl with the murder, alleging that even though the teen was killed by a member of their SWAT team, it was all her fault.

04/10/2019

Almost a decade after STOP founded the trauma-center campaign, two east coast foundations led by a UChicago Medicine trustee have donated for social services around the new trauma center.

So... plant seeds for more! Donate to the community organizing that made this possible!

The money will go toward a program that provides counseling, child care and even help finding housing while a family member is hospitalized.

09/25/2018

Jeanette stood with us through the trauma-center campaign, supporting the community and youth in winning healthcare. Now we stand with Jeanette B. Taylor Candidate for 20th Ward Alderman of Chicago City Council.

I Believe That We Will Win!