[Peace-discuss] re: foreclosure prevention and Champaign City Council's view on the poor

[Karen Medina]

Peace Discuss,

Laurie wrote: >What sorts of things would you [...] expect to gain by contacting them [Habitat for Humanity and Center for Women in Transition]?

The first 2 options you list are good and parts of the 3rd, namely: 
* support, 
* assistance in getting the word out, and 
* information from their perspectives.

With regards to the rest of the 3rd option you mention (your complete statement can be read below), no.

However, those who care about Habitat and the Center need to be aware of how members on the city council are voting, and how those votes affect the poor. With this information, the people who support Habitat and the Center can better decide who they want to stay on the city council and who they would like to replace, and with what type of person they would like to replace them.  

-karen medina
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Laurie Solomon's complete paragraph was:
>What sorts of things would you or anyone else expect to gain by contacting them - support, assistance in getting the word out, new information and arguments to present to the public and the City Council of Champaign concerning the issues that they have already decided so as to try and get them to reopen the questions, volunteers to canvas the neighborhoods to get out the vote for the referendum, or something different?