News and Updates

• Mobilize Schedule for June
• Founder of CODEPINK at KZFR
• Next Chico City Council Meeting

Mobilize Chico is not meeting tomorrow, because it’s Father’s Day. Love your dads.
***We will also not be meeting for the rest of the month. Our fourth Sunday is reserved for a strategy session with local leaders in activist groups that focus on the homeless. Mobilize wants to bring them all together so we can organize and work together to get our city on the right page for solutions to this issue. In the meantime, please attend the next city council meeting and keep up all the amazing work you did at the last one! (See this week’s third newsletter item.)

Medea Benjamin is the co-founder of the women-led peace group CODEPINK and the co-founder of the human rights group Global Exchange. She has been an advocate for social justice for more than 40 years.
***Medea will be interviewed by Sue Hilderbrand on her KZFR program, The Real Issue, Wed. 6/13, in the KZFR studio. Tickets for this event and more information are in this flyer: https://gallery.mailchimp.com/65f5c87f9d0be70735614a3f1/files/424678fc-a385-4f8d-a28f-1bc5db330ecc/Medea_flyer.docx

Activists and concerned folks in this community KILLED it at the last Chico City Council meeting, calling for local policies that work to provide just and sustainable solutions for the homeless in our town. Bad news: a shelter crisis was not declared. Good news: none of the ordinances were passed. The council asked for more information on what a shelter crisis would mean, and for more about the effectiveness of a sit/lie ordinance.
***We need to show up again at their meeting on June 19, 6pm, at the council chambers. Please attend the meeting and speak out. You can also join or follow any of these groups to get involved:

• Chico Friends on the Street: https://chicofriendsonthestreet.org/
• North Valley Housing Trust: http://www.nvht.org/participants/board-directors-and-leadership
• Greater Chico Homeless Task Force: https://www.facebook.com/greaterchicohomelesstaskforce/
• Red Artemis: https://www.facebook.com/redartemischico/
• Chico Housing Action Team: https://www.chicohousingactionteam.org/