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Senator Durbin Satellite Office March 1, 2007Chicago Area CODEPINK Chicago Area, IL | ||
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Chicago Area CodePINK set up a “satellite office” outside the Federal Building housing Sen. Durbin's office—complete with water cooler and other office amenities—and Robin, Julia, and Nina helped constituents air their concerns to the senator. The Chicago office has recently instituted a “closed-door policy,” requiring constituents to have an appointment in order to pass by the Federal security officers outside the office doors to visit with the senator’s staff, and limiting the number of constituents who can enter for the appointment. These measures, ostensibly taken due to “security concerns” because of Durbin’s new majority leadership position, were instituted shortly after four anti-war activists were arrested for refusing to leave Durbin’s office on February 5th, during the rollout of the Occupation Project. Indicative of the restrictive atmosphere this has engendered at the Federal Building, on Ash Wednesday, February 21st, a group of anti-war activists and clergy followed an ecumenical prayer service in Federal Plaza with an attempt to deliver ash-stained letters to Senators Durbin and Obama and were locked out of the Federal Building altogether. Despite the new policy, Nina was permitted up to the 38th Floor to deliver letters from the satellite office up to Durbin's office. Meanwhile, the senator continues to state that he will not vote to cut funding because he "supports the troops, not the war." Try again, Senator. (We will.) |
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