Jefferson Bank Protests
Whereas equality means providing the same to all, equity means recognizing that we do not all start from the same place and must acknowledge and adjust to imbalances. Sixty years ago, Black organizers from CORE, The Committee on Racial Equity, led a protest at Jefferson Bank demanding that Jefferson Bank hire four black tellers. They […]
28 organizations announce ‘The People’s Plan St. Louis’
AFGE, St. Louis Labor Council call on Hawley to resign for his role in inciting anti-democracy attack on U.S. Capitol
Solidarity Campaign: Close the Workhouse
For years, community members, led by our partners Action St. Louis and Arch City Defenders, have worked to close St. Louis’ dangerous medium security prison, the St. Louis Workhouse. The Workhouse has been a site of economic and racial violence for generations, a place where presumably innocent people, many of them Black and brown, are […]
