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Residents press Champaign City Council to adopt ceasefire/divestment resolution; council members apologize for earlier silence
Summary
Multiple residents urged the Champaign City Council on Jan. 7 to adopt a ceasefire/divestment resolution; several council members apologized for not speaking up after an inflammatory public comment at a prior meeting.
Multiple residents and local organizers used the City Council public-comment period Jan. 7 to urge the council to adopt a ceasefire/divestment resolution and to make an explicit statement opposing what they described as mass civilian harm in Gaza.
Why it matters: The comments touched off extended public testimony and prompted several council members to apologize for not previously speaking up when a constituent made an inflammatory public comment at an earlier meeting. Speakers asked the council to put a formally drafted ceasefire/divestment resolution to a public vote.
Isabelle Scott, a Champaign resident from Ward 5, urged the council to "put that ceasefire…
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