{"id":19989,"date":"2015-11-10T16:15:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T22:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=19989"},"modified":"2015-11-10T16:53:08","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T22:53:08","slug":"activists-homeless-join-to-march-on-ald-capplemans-office-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/activists-homeless-join-to-march-on-ald-capplemans-office-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Activists &amp; homeless join to march on Ald. Cappleman\u2019s office (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ryan Connelly Holmes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">Protesters marched in Uptown Monday night to vent frustration at Ald. James Cappleman and the Chicago police who ticketed individuals sleeping near the Wilson Avenue viaduct.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese people who are sleeping out here, they want peace,\u201d said Ryne Poelker, 24, who used to be homeless and now is involved as a volunteer with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actionforjustice.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Northside Action for Justice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey just want to be able to exist in peace and they\u2019re being constantly ticketed, constantly harassed, and constantly criminalized for being homeless,\u201d he said.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Activists &amp;amp; homeless join to march on Ald. Cappleman&amp;rsquo;s office\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/145320834?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">(Ryan Connelly Holmes\/Medill)<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/chicago\/20151104\/uptown\/kicked-out-from-under-viaducts-where-can-uptowns-homeless-turn\" target=\"_blank\">Last week police ticketed homeless people near the Wilson Avenue viaduct<\/a>, which sparked outrage in the community and mobilized Monday night\u2019s protest.<\/p>\n<p>More than 50 people marched in the demonstration, which started at Wilson Avenue and Marine Drive, and worked its way to Ald. Cappleman\u2019s home. When he wasn&#8217;t there, protesters went to his office on N Broadway Street, where he met protesters face-to-face.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters squeezed into the alderman&#8217;s storefront, filling the main room.\u00a0\u00a0In a raised tone, Andy Thayer, the voice of the march and co-founder of the Gay Liberation Network, and another protester asked the alderman if he would take a pay cut or call for the disciplining of police officers.<\/p>\n<p>Ald. Cappleman did not answer either question directly, saying that he gives portions of his income\u00a0to charity and that he encourages those who have witnessed wrongful treatment from the police to file a report.<\/p>\n<p>Ald. Cappleman\u2019s office released a statement saying that he shares \u201cmany of the protesters\u2019 concerns about the impact of the police sweeps on our homeless neighbors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement also said that Ald. Cappleman is working with organizations such as <a href=\"http:\/\/onenorthside.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">One Northside<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seniorcaucus.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jane Addams Senior Caucus<\/a> to ensure affordable housing stays in Uptown.<\/p>\n<p>He supports building more affordable units and and increasing funding for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofchicago.org\/city\/en\/depts\/dcd\/supp_info\/chicago_low-incomehousingtrustfund0.html\" target=\"_blank\">Low Income Housing Trust Fund<\/a>, the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>Thayer\u00a0said the evening\u2019s protest was the beginning of the process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a first step,\u201d Thayer said. \u201cWe didn\u2019t win tonight, [but] what we did do is we mobilized our community and that\u2019s the first step\u2014the necessary step\u2014for victory.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: Protesters march in the street on the way to Ald. Cappleman&#8217;s office. (Ryan Connelly Holmes\/Medill)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ryan Connelly Holmes Protesters marched in Uptown Monday night to vent frustration at Ald. James Cappleman and the Chicago police who ticketed individuals sleeping near the Wilson Avenue viaduct. \u201cThese people who are sleeping out here, they want peace,\u201d said Ryne Poelker, 24, who used to be homeless and now is involved as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":20008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fall-2015"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Activists &amp; homeless join to march on Ald. 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