COPS/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...
Read MoreAs Ready to Work Graduates Enter Job Market, COPS/Metro Pressures City to Ensure High Quality Jobs Await Them
November 20, 2023
[Photo Credit: Ronald Cortes, San Antonio Express News] [Excerpt]"...not enough San Antonians are landing jobs through the city sales-tax funded program, say leaders with the interfaith grassroots advocacy group. The city has failed to meet its goal that 80% of Ready to Work participants will...
Read MoreCOPS/Metro Holds Memorial to The Lost Featuring "Stunning" Installation to Spur Change
November 16, 2023
[Photo Credit: Reform Austin][Excerpt]"More than a hundred people marched from St. Michael's Catholic Church to the Alamodome on Saturday to hang around 2000 t-shirts in front of the parking lot. Each shirt represented a life lost to gun violence in Bexar County. Most shirts had...
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