[Cprb] Meeting suggestion...

[Walling, Jennifer]

The Campus Greens are meeting at 6:00 PM on Tuesday at Murphy's.  Maybe
everyone could meet us there at 6:30?  The CPRB is half of what we talk
about anyway.
We could move the location if anyone is uncomfortable with it.
-jen 

-----Original Message-----
From: Alfred Weiss
To: 'CPRB at lists.groogroo.com'
Sent: 10/14/2003 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Cprb] Contacting Urbana City Council members

Oops--I realized I just sent this to Ricky...

We should have a planning meeting soon to discuss all these things--how 
about later this week or early next week?  How about someplace 
fun--like a bar or coffeehouse?  If nobody suggests a venue and time I 
will unilaterally do so in the next twenty four hours.

Cheers,

Al
On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 03:18  PM, Ricky Baldwin wrote:

> This discussion is very encouraging, in my opinion.  I
> meant to say so sooner.  And, sure, I'd be willing to
> meet with whoever wants to sit and talk about this
> face-to-face.  I meant to say that sooner, too.
>
> But I think John's point is pretty much on the mark.
> The best part, again in my opinion, about 'grassroots'
> initiatives is not that a bunch of us activists can
> push something through a city council, but that it's
> an opportunity for a community to work together in a
> more concretely democratic way, building the broadest
> possible coalitions along the way.
>
> There seems to be a lot of good energy here, so I can
> see no reason this can't happen.  Thanks again, folks,
> for doing this.
>
> Ricky
>
> --- John Wason <jwason at prairienet.org> wrote:
>> At 08:52 AM 10/10/03 -0500, Walling, Jennifer wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> A couple of things.  Last night I spoke with Laura
>> Huth about the CPRB and
>> she gave me some tips to how we should proceed.  She
>> said that first, we
>> should talk with Ruth Wyman.  I live in Ruth's ward,
>> so I figure I could
>> contact her and set up a meeting?  If I tried to set
>> it up for October 20
>> or 21 (the day we don't meet), who else would be
>> able to go?  I'll try to
>> figure out her availability in the next couple of
>> weeks.  And then she said
>> to use the following order - Danielle, Esther,
>> Laura, Milton Otto, Joe
>> Whelan.  And she thought that we should contact Ken
>> Pirok in Champaign
>> right away to set up a meeting.  Does anyone live in
>> his district?  and
>> John Paul, Elaine will answer your concern about the
>> NAACP soon.
>>>
>>> -jen
>>
>> I have very mixed feelings about this.  I'm
>> delighted with Jen's energy and
>> enthusiasm (and some of the rest of you, too), and I
>> don't want to throw
>> cold water on it for anything in the world.
>> But....we've already met with
>> all of these city council persons, except for Joe
>> Whelan (who refused to
>> meet with us) and Ken Pirok.  What would be the
>> purpose of meeting with
>> them again at this juncture?  Danielle made it
>> crystal clear to us that
>> what she needs in order to sponsor a CPRB ordinance
>> is BROAD COMMUNITY
>> SUPPORT.  So in my opinion that's where we need to
>> be focusing our
>> energies.  I don't know precisely how to go about
>> garnering that support -
>> that's not my strong suit, but appears to be the
>> strong suit of people like
>> Jen and Ken Urban - but I do know that we don't want
>> to go running into a
>> city council meeting half-cocked without the
>> foundation properly laid.
>>
>> This ties in with Ricky Baldwin's comments, too,
>> about having
>> support/collaboration from the various minority
>> communities.  I agree with
>> Elaine that we can probably count on some sort of
>> support from the NAACP,
>> but I don't want it to be PASSIVE or TACIT support,
>> because that won't be
>> obvious to anyone but us.  The support needs to be
>> overt and active.  I'm
>> also interested in not just the CPRB per se, but in
>> building a more durable
>> broad-based grassroots communication and coalition
>> between the minority
>> communities and us.
>>
>> Well, these are some of the things we need to talk
>> about.  There's a
>> balance to be struck between moving too fast and
>> moving too slowly, and I
>> fervently hope that we in our collective wisdom can
>> find that balance.
>> Meanwhile, a sincere thanks to all of you for your
>> comments and your
>> activities on behalf of the CPRB.
>>
>> John
>>
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