[OccupyCU] Outreach Committee meeting tonight 7:30p, in SDaS Room

[Ricky Baldwin]

Sorry I won't make it tonight!  (kids have a concert)

This looks like a great agenda.  I'll be glad to help & help turn folks out to the next events, whenever they are, see if I can find some SEIU members to help with canvassing, etc.  And just a heads up: I think there may be a rally coming up on campus for the campus workers, maybe even next week - Campus Labor Coalition meeting is tomorrow & then I'll know more. 

Let's turn up the heat!
Ricky 
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From: occupycu-bounces at lists.chambana.net [occupycu-bounces at lists.chambana.net] On Behalf Of ya'aQov [yaaqovz at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 8:15 AM
To: occupyCU at lists.chambana.net
Cc: SDaS Current Session
Subject: [OccupyCU] Outreach Committee meeting tonight 7:30p, in SDaS Room

Agenda's old business will include Flex N Gate, Move to Amend (canvassing & training), Urbana's jail construction (see below)

Please join us.

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Dear all,

 The County Board is trying to steamroll the jail construction. Their agenda for Tuesday ignores all the board deliberations and community inputs  made last week. There is no mention of  further public meetings and instead the agenda offers “Establishment of a Jail Space Improvement Project Planning Team” with the members already named. Sheriff Walsh is in the lead and there are no people of color, no one from any sector of the community.  They have also pushed to get the RFP going and declared that looking into why people are locked up and examining alternatives to incarceration are “outside the scope” of their committee. They also have put “Funding Model Based on Current Available Resources” as an agenda item but have merely said the info is “to be distributed”- in other words they don’t want to tell us they are going to float a bond and then repay it from the public safety tax.  Once again we need to get a good crowd there with lots of people speaking out. Please come and bring a friend and be ready to push back. The main goal now is to push for more public participation-public meetings throughout the county and ultimately a referendum. They don’t want any part of this, nor do they want to discuss the elephant in the room-the 60% African American jail population. Look forward to meeting again at

Brookens Admin Bldg, 1776 E. Washington, Urbana. 6 p.m Tuesday Feb 7.