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Were your initial meetings during your intervention private and confidential?
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Dick
Salem
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I had received a call from a state senator from a predominantly Jewish District in the
north part of Chicago. He asked if I could come over to his house Sunday morning to meet with
him and a colleague. This was a private meeting to get a message to Colin that unless he
withdrew from Skokie, they were going to pass the ordinance that would ban him from all over
the state. The Senator and the legislator with him were obviously under pressure from their
constituents to keep Colin out of Skokie. I also found out from another legislator that if Colin
did not go to Skokie, the state legislation would never pass. It was very controversial, and would
likely be stricken down by the courts as a First Amendment violation. Meanwhile, the Skokie
ordinances and the ban from the Chicago Park District were moving through the federal courts
and it appeared they would be overruled on appeal.
Nancy Ferrell
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Question:
Were those meetings, or interviews
private, or did you have all the groups at the same time hearing their grievances? How did you
do that?
Answer:
I did both. I interviewed individuals, and I also went to group meetings. I would go to a
faculty meeting and then I would interview individuals by their choice, or by being selected by
the group to come. I did the same thing with the student organizations. I met with them at their regular meeting and then I would have a schedule when I met
with people individually.
| Leo Cardenas
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Were the initial meetings during your
intervention always private or did you bring them together to talk at the same time?
Answer:
No. They were always private and always apart until we got to the
point that we started working on a series of issues, and in between we were simply going
between one group and the other. And eventually we got
them together, if my memory again serves me correctly, we had at least three meetings before
we finally had a signature.
Efrain Martinez
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So you go into the initial meeting
laying everything out, explaining your procedure and your process
up front with both parties?
Answer:
I do it individually, or in a group setting. Sometimes
we may key in on certain people depending on what the issue is
and how bad or how small the problem is.
Question:
Do you decide that before you go in?
Answer:
No, I have to find out. I make as
much contact as I can by phone but that's only to determine if
we have jurisdiction. Is there a conflict in this community, and
is it related to race? That's usually the phone contact. When
we're there we explore the situation further.
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