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"More than 1,100 community leaders of COPS/Metro gathered at St. Mary’s University’s Bill Greehey Arena on Sunday afternoon to celebrate the launch of its 50th anniversary celebration, and to chart a path forward for their organizing plans for the coming year to invest in job training, quality schools, better healthcare, gun safety, and protection for immigrants through a parish ID program.
“We believe that investing in buildings is not going to bring about economic development,” Drennan said. “You all, everyone in here, is worth more than any building ever built in the city.”
Drennan led the packed arena into an echoing chant: “So we tell our leaders — and we want them to hear it right now — ‘Invest in us. Invest in us. Invest IN US.'”
“As an organization, we’re against using public tax money for private development,” said Mike Phillips, a COPS/Metro leader with First Unitarian Universalist Church. “If [Project Marvel] gets anywhere near that, then we’ll be opposed to it.”
[Photo Credit: Ethan E. Rocke, San Antonio Express News.]
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COPS/Metro Says It Will Fight Public Funding for Project Marvel, Spurs Arena, San Antonio Express News [pdf]
Community Activist Group Comes Out Swinging Against Project Marvel, Texas Public Radio [pdf]
On US-Mexico Border, Catholic Leaders Prepare for Return of Trump Anti-Migrant Regime, Religion News Service [pdf]
San Antonio Archbishop Garcia-Siller on Leading at the Border: 'We Have to Be Held Accountable', Religion News Service [pdf]
