I could be in on any of those times.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Stuart Levy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stuartnlevy@gmail.com" target="_blank">stuartnlevy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hello oCUpiers,<br>
<br>
If you're interested in tweaking the language of a Champaign Free
Speech referendum,<br>
maybe in a meeting early this week, please write back and let us
know. Let's try to meet!<br>
Either in person or virtually. Would tonight, or Tuesday evening,
or Wednesday evening do?<br>
<br>
Details below.<br>
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We'd talked last month about drafting another version of Mike
Weissman's free speech amendment,<br>
the one that would allow non-disruptive political speech,
leafletting,<br>
petitioning etc. in privately owned spaces frequented by the public.<br>
It would appear as an advisory referendum on the November ballot.<br>
<br>
This passed in Urbana, but failed narrowly in Champaign. But - as
Stephanie Williams (hey!) pointed out,<br>
voters in Champaign can ask for another township meeting and
consider the question again.<br>
<br>
The last language Mike drafted was this:<br>
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<span style="font-family:Times"><font size="4">Whereas
expensive media campaigns have recently largely<br>
replaced ordinary political conversations between
citizens,</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Times"><font size="4"> whereas much of
the public space in which such conversations<br>
used to take place has been replaced with private malls, </font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Times"><font size="4"> whereas since 1980
the state of California has successfully required that<br>
polite non-disruptive political speech be allowed at
privately-owned malls and parking lots,</font></span></p>
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we request that the City of Champaign establish by
ordinance that<br>
privately owned public spaces, specifically malls and
large parking lots,<br>
respect the right of polite, non-disruptive free political
speech.<br>
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Before getting signatures, we need to set the language of the
proposed referendum.<br>
It could be the above, or could be tweaked further (for example, it
could explicitly mention leafletting and petitioning).<br>
<br>
Several people expressed interest in looking into tweaking the
language to make it as appealing as possible.<br>
Let's do that.<br>
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