Fall Campaign against the Sleeping Ban--Come Catch Coonerty at Bookshop Santa

We press on with the campaign to contact the inaccessible Vice-Mayor Ryan Coonerty, manager/worker at the Bookshop. We'll urge shoppers to talk with Coonerty, suggesting their dollars will go elsewhere if he continues to back laws that criminalize the poor, like the City's Sleeping Ban.

Featured: Guerrilla theater involving panhandling plumbers and justice-seeking janitors, who are volunteering to clean-up the mess at City Hall and at Coonerty's bookstore. Coonerty has accused the protesters of "creating a climate" where his bathrooms are vandalized. Coonerty, in his three years as Councilmember, has still not opened up a 24-hour bathroom.

We will also be discussing and preparing for a potential Sleep-Out at City Hall at the first Council meeting of the year on Tuesday, September 11th. If it happens, the Sleep-Out will coincide with anti-war protest as Congress ducks its obligation to stop funding for the war.

See http://indybay.org/newsitems/2007/09/01/18445294.php for more details of the ongoing Coonerty protest.