Mental health clinics granted stay after students help stage City Hall sit-inRead the rest of the article for more, including rather a lot of attention paid to our very own Mark Hopwood.
20 to 30 students have been involved with advocacy over the course of the campaign, attending pickets, protests, and town hall meetings on the fate of the clinics.
Mayor Richard M. Daley announced an 11th-hour halt to the closing of four South Side mental health clinics Tuesday, the day after a City Hall sit-in attended by U of C students.
The city announced it would close the clinics, which serve 2,000 patients across the South and West Sides, in January, spurring local organizers into actions.
As the article notes, the truth of the Mayor's announcement is currently in a state of flux: the clinics have in fact been shutting down. But we are assured they'll be reopening. And a number of people downtown have the job of preventing the mayor from being made a liar. And (crucially) the funds for the clinics have been identified. Still, there will probably be some work for us to do on the issue in the future.
Even so, this is a big win. STOP is planning a victory party, and we're on the invite list. SSN will be holding a celebration of its own, so stay-tuned and get ready to invite all your friends.
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