[Peace-discuss] "Halt Police Militarization in CU" Planning Meeting, Sat 1/31, 2pm - can anyone attend for AWARE?

Tue Jan 20 11:44:39 EST 2015

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Subject: 	Planning Meeting
Date: 	Tue, 20 Jan 2015 10:23:01 -0600
From: 	Durl Kruse <jandurl at comcast.net>
To: 	stuartnlevy at gmail.com

Summary: AWARE joined the coalition opposing militarization of the 
police, which CUCPJ initiated.   They are having an organizing meeting 
in a couple of weeks:

    2-4pm Sat Jan 31st at the IMC

and are inviting AWARE to send a member, to bring ideas, and consider 
what should be said to the County Board in February (on Feb 19th).

Would anyone like to go / be willing to go on Jan 31st and report back?

Details below.

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CU Citizens for Peace and Justice is organizing two Halt Police 
Militarization in CU events.  As a coalition member, we would like to 
invite your organization to join us in planning these important events.

The first is a *Planning and Organizational Meeting from 2:00 - 4:00 
pm on Saturday, January 31 at the Independent Media Center.* (Downtown 
Post Office - 202 S. Broadway, U.).

The purpose of this meeting is to bring together all members of the 
coalition for the first time to put our heads together to work on 
strategies and actions to combat police militarization.  We would like 
coalition members to consider the presentation of the statement to the 
County Board and a draft county ordinance governing the acquisition of 
surplus military equipment.

If coalition members have other related items to add to the discussion, 
just email us.  Your input and participation is valued.

Finally, it would be helpful in planning this event if by January 23 you 
could RSVP via email the name and contact information of the person from 
your organization who is willing to attend.  Then, if necessary, we can 
communicate with him/her directly before the meeting.

The second event is *Presentation to the County Board at 6:30 pm on 
Thursday, February 19 at the Brookens Center. *(1776 E. Washington, U.)

At this regularly scheduled County Board meeting, the coalition will 
present its statement and ordinance language governing the 1033 program 
to the county board. Coalition members are encouraged to attend and/or 
make public comments in support.

We look forward to hearing from you and thank you for your continued 
support.

CUCPJ Demilitarization of Local Police Planning Committee,

Brian Dolinar, Durl Kruse, Patsy Howell, James Kilgore, Barbara Kessel,

PS:

Currently the coalition is composed of the following twenty local 
organizations: Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort, North End Mens Breakfast 
Club, Central Illinois Chapter of Progressive Democrats, Central 
Illinois Jobs with Justice,  Champaign Chapter of NAACP,  Champaign 
County ACLU, Champaign County Young Democrats, Champaign-Urbana Citizens 
for Peace and Justice,  Champaign-Urbana Immigration Forum, Channing 
Murray Foundation,  GEO Solidarity Committee,  First Mennonite Church of 
Champaign/Urbana, Ministerial Alliance of Champaign-Urbana and 
Vicinity,Missions, Mercy and Justice Team at New Covenant 
Fellowship,School for Designing a Society,  Social Action Committee of 
the Unitarian Universalist Church of Urbana-Champaign,Students for 
Justice in Palestine,  UIUC Chapter of Amnesty International, 
  University YMCA, Urbana-Champaign Friends Meeting

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