St. Margaret Mary, COPS/Metro Leverage Commitments on Police Substation
September 15, 2024
After organizing the vote in 2022 to secure the funds necessary to build a new police substation in southeast San Antonio, COPS/Metro leaders at St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church hosted a community feedback meeting and leveraged commitments to address homelessness, mental health services, and neighborhood services....
Read More324 Assemble with SAPD Chief & Prepare for December Citywide Action
September 15, 2024
324 COPS/Metro delegates pledged to build an agenda and prepare for Citywide Action on December 8. Leaders from across San Antonio came together to recommit to the parish ID strategy with Chief McManus. See action highlights below: Image Gallery:
Read MoreCOPS/Metro Wins Missions Stadium Community Benefits
September 12, 2024
COPS/Metro Ensures Community Benefits are Included in Tax-Funded Downtown Missions Stadium Project COPS/Metro is proud to claim a victory for our community by ensuring community benefits are now part of the partially tax-funded Downtown Missions Stadium project, thus creating a fairer deal for...
Read MoreCOPS/Metro Fights for Community Benefits in Missions Baseball Stadium Deal
September 05, 2024
More than a year after closed-door talks began around a proposed stadium that would displace thousands of low-income residents, the City of San Antonio held its first public hearing. COPS/Metro clergy and leaders decried the secrecy of negotiations and displacement of low-income families, while questioning...
Read MoreCommunity Hospital & 'TB Cottages' COPS/Metro Rescued Are Now at Forefront of Fight Against Diabetes
July 27, 2024
The Texas Diabetes Institute - recently cited by the New York Times in a groundbreaking expose of San Antonio's Latino amputation crisis - largely exists thanks to COPS/Metro. During the early 1990s, when the local Lutheran hospital filed for bankruptcy, COPS/Metro built the political will...
Read MoreCOPS/Metro, San Antonio to Distribute 4,000 Gun Lock Boxes on Saturday
June 19, 2024
After COPS/Metro organizing the City of San Antonio's first-ever gun buyback program last year, leaders shifted into the next phase of its local gun safety strategy. [Excerpt] ...the City of San Antonio in partnership with District 3 Councilwoman Phyllis Viagran and COPS...
Read MoreBishop Janak Encourages 150+ Congregational Leaders to Continue Building the Body of Christ
May 05, 2024
On Saturday, May 4-5, more than 150 ministry leaders, women religious, clergy, and seminarians from 31 congregations participated in 'Recognizing the Stranger’ parish leadership development in collaboration with the Archdiocese of San Antonio. The sessions were conducted in English and Spanish and included visitors...
Read MoreCOPS/Metro Calls for Transparency and Accountability as Criticisms of 'SA Ready to Work' Mount
April 11, 2024
[Excerpt] “If the city paid for it, I would hope the answer is yes,” [Sonia] Rodriguez said after Thursday’s council meeting. “Because that’s the point — that people get the skills, get the certificates, get what they need to be able to actually reach a...
Read MoreCOPS/Metro Challenges San Antonio's Service Satisfaction: City's Neglected Infrastructure Still a Concern
April 03, 2024
Photo Credit: Linda Taylor, San Antonio Current[Excerpt] Miller points to the formation 50 years ago of Communities Organized for Public Service, now COPS/Metro, as a turning point in the city's willful neglect of low-income, non-Anglo neighborhoods. The grassroots group organized residents to demand drainage, sidewalks,...
Read MoreVatican official Dr. Emilce Cuda tours West Side with COPS/Metro
February 27, 2024
Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller and Dr. Emilce Cuda take a song break during a COPS/Metro dinner last week. COPS/Metro leaders welcomed the Vatican's Emilce Cuda, Secretary of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, for a tour of San Antonio's West Side, followed by a two-day conversation...
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