ABOUT

Contact us at: info@communitycourtwatch.org.

Meet with us: every Saturday at 4 PM in the Independent Media Center in the downtown Urbana post office building (right between the county and federal courthouses).

Community Courtwatch is a project of CU Citizens for Peace & Justice, a black-led multi-racial coalition in Champaign County, Illinois. The accomplishments of CU Citizens include:

In early 2004, we effectively stopped the planned purchase of 25 Tasers in Champaign.
Our greatest victory was in November 2004 when helped to oust long-time State's Attorney John Piland for his excessive sentencing & charging and retaliation against civil rights activists.
We organized well attended Unity Marches and got average people out to vote.
We promoted a Citizen Police Review Board which is presently before the Urbana city council. Some of our members served on the Mayor's task force to draft the ordinance.
In 2004, we also spotlighted three jail suicides. In this campaign, we forced the renegotiation of a phone contract in the County jail that had awarded $14,000 a month to an outside phone company.
In 2005, we worked with the Urban Leage to vote down a school referendum that undermined the construction of a school in the Black community by a consent decree.
After hurricane Katrina, we raised donations of two truckloads of food that we sent to Alabama.
We organized Forgiveness Weekend to discuss felony disenfranchisement and the barriers to re-entry into society after conviction & incarceration.



Priorities for Justice About Us Meetings are every Saturday at 4 PM in the Independent Media Center in the downtown Urbana post office building.		ABOUT Contact us at: info@communitycourtwatch.org. Meet with us: every Saturday at 4 PM in the Independent Media Center in the downtown Urbana post office building (right between the county and federal courthouses). Community Courtwatch is a project of CU Citizens for Peace & Justice, a black-led multi-racial coalition in Champaign County, Illinois. The accomplishments of CU Citizens include: In early 2004, we effectively stopped the planned purchase of 25 Tasers in Champaign. Our greatest victory was in November 2004 when helped to oust long-time State's Attorney John Piland for his excessive sentencing & charging and retaliation against civil rights activists. We organized well attended Unity Marches and got average people out to vote. We promoted a Citizen Police Review Board which is presently before the Urbana city council. Some of our members served on the Mayor's task force to draft the ordinance. In 2004, we also spotlighted three jail suicides. In this campaign, we forced the renegotiation of a phone contract in the County jail that had awarded $14,000 a month to an outside phone company. In 2005, we worked with the Urban Leage to vote down a school referendum that undermined the construction of a school in the Black community by a consent decree. After hurricane Katrina, we raised donations of two truckloads of food that we sent to Alabama. We organized Forgiveness Weekend to discuss felony disenfranchisement and the barriers to re-entry into society after conviction & incarceration.