[Peace] people in terested in Housing Court Today

[Karen Medina]

[Tuesday is Housing Court! If you are interested in working with the
Stop Bank Foreclosures working group of the OccupyCU, here is the
information. - karen medina:]

If you are in town, and if you are able to make Tuesday, March 20th,
2012, Housing Court has two
sessions, one at 1:30, the other at 2:30 (both tentatively in Courtroom H;
the courthouse is in Downtown Urbana on the corner of Broadway and Main
St.).  I will be getting there early at 1:15. If you can meet me then, that
would be awesome.  Otherwise, show up sometime between 1:30 and 3:30.
I am putting together a flyer or two (moslty with information copied from
the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign's handouts) that we can use to pass out
to people.
>From what I understand, it is always good to check at the front desk to
make sure housing court will still be held in Courtroom H.  There is always
a chance that they moved it last minute.
Finally, They do not allow cell phones in the Courthouse.  Either leave
your cell phone at home, or find someplace to hide it. One idea is to go to
the IMC and ask the good folks there if we can leave out cell phones with
them.

That's all for now.  I will try to send out flyers as soon as possible.

Jesse

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Jesse Phillippe <japhillippe at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hey everyone,
> At the meeting this week we decided that I should send out an email
> detailing the issues we discussed.  Those are:
> 1. We talked about making some fliers, some of which would be modified
> versions of the ones that the folks from the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign
> gave us.  As a related issue, we talked about places we could flier and
> places we could have tabling events, where we pass out fliers (it seems the
> best idea so far has been to do it at one of the farmers' markets in
> town.)  If anyone who is good at putting fliers together wants to volunteer
> to do so, please let me know.  Otherwise I will start work on one right
> away.
>
> 2. Court-watching/ talking to people going in and out of housing court:
> Josh informs us that there will be another 2-hour block of housing court
> hearings on the 20th, next Tuesday, that we could observe/ use as an
> opportunity to talk to folks.  This is something that we should have a
> flier for.
>
> 3. Finally, we discussed talking to the folks at Land of Lincoln Legal who
> do provide free legal advice on foreclosures and evictions.  This way we
> will be able to direct people to them (we will see if they are willing to
> direct people to us).  We can include their contact info on one of our
> fliers.  And finally, they will hopefully prove helpful in helping us
> understand the foreclosure/eviction process.
>
> Solidarity,
> Jesse