[Durham INC] FW: March 21 Meeting Promotion: Let's get the word out!

[Susan Sewell]

>
> Subject: Fwd: March 21 Meeting Promotion: Let's get the word out!
>
> Hey folks,
>
> DCIA, End Poverty Durham, Rutba House and Duke Memorial United Methodist
> Church are sponsoring a public meeting about Durham's Anti-Panhandling Law
> at 7:00 pm on Thursday, March 21, at Duke Memorial United Methodist Church.
>  All interested in examining problems created by the ordinance changes that
> went into effect in January are welcome to attend.
>
> We need your help getting the word out.
>
> Here is a link to the Facebook event<
> https://www.facebook.com/events/497637460295525/>, where we'd like to get
> 200 people to commit to be there. (We'll send press release to media and
> Council members in a little over a week.)
>
> Below are links to several articles and primary sources that you can email
> or share via social networks. Let's try to get the conversation started
> before folks get there on the 21st.
>
> A few of the key issues within the ordinance include prohibitions against
> "sitting, standing, and walking on medians" (section 1), being "on an
> access ramp" (line 169), and being "within 100 feet of [a] bridge" (lines
> 170-171).  Additionally, solicitors must be "on one-way street" (line 97),
> they must stand "on a paved sidewalk" (line 85), and what is received must
> be from, "a passenger (not the driver)...on the right-hand side of the
> motor vehicle."  These changes make nearly all places where men and women
> have solicited vehicles illegal.
>
> See the Ordinance, sections 54-84 and 54-86 at
> http://library.municode.com/HTML/19967/level4/PTIICOOR_CH54SASOBURE_ARTIISASOSTRI-W_DIV2TRSTRI-WINSI.html#PTIICOOR_CH54SASOBURE_ARTIISASOSTRI-W_DIV2TRSTRI-WINSI_S54-84INIMTRRO
>
> See Facebook event invite at Public Meeting RE: Durham's Anti-Panhandling
> Law<
> http://www.facebook.com/n/?events/497637460295525/&mid=7a1b8a9G1ef68032G127972eaG6b&bcode=1.1362606973.AblFGLlqyPsbIIcY&n_m=pastor%40durhammennonite.org
> >
>
> Also see
> http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jonathanwilsonhartgrove/2013/03/update-on-lenten-fast/
>
> http://www.durhamvoice.org/panhandling-ordinance-making-life-harder-for-homeless/
>
> http://www.indyweek.com/triangulator/archives/2013/02/09/at-durham-city-council-work-session-advocates-of-homeless-talk-to-the-hand
>
> http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/advocates-upset-over-panhandling-ordinance/Content?oid=3268351
>
>
>


-- 
Susan Sewell, Secretary
Durham Co Democratic Party
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