[Peace] Emergency Picket - Champaign City Council - Don't Legalize Discrimination - Tuesday 10/3

[Ricky Baldwin]

We discussed this Council item at the AWARE meeting
last nite - now there's a picket.  It should be over
in time for folks to go in and speak.

AWARE is a member of Jobs With Justice.

Ricky
 
> Central Illinois Jobs with Justice Update
> 
> There will be an emergency picket before the meeting
> of the Champaign
> City Council on Tuesday, October 3.
> 
> The City Council is scheduled to consider a proposal
> to change in the
> Champaign Human Rights Ordinance to legalize
> discrimination against
> people who receive Section 8 housing subsidies.
> 
> The Council meeting is Tuesday,  7PM, City Council
> Chambers, 102
> N.Neil St. Champaign (across the street from the
> Esquire.)
> 
> The picket will begin at 6:30 to greet council
> members and others
> going in to the meeting and to allow picketers to
> attend the meeting
> should they wish to do so. (Note especially
> Champaign residents, it
> would be helpful to attend the meeting and voice
> opposition to this
> attempt to legalize discrimination in the public
> comment period.)
> 
> The Tenant Union has prepared a factsheet debunking
> the claims being
> made about Section 8. For a copy of this factsheet,
> or for other
> questions:
> Robert Naiman, naiman.uiuc at gmail.com, 344-3354.
> 


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