At its regular Wednesday meeting, Bloomington’s city council voted 9–0 to override mayor Kerry Thomson’s veto of a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza so that humanitarian aid can be delivered.
The 9–0 tally satisfied the two-thirds majority on the nine-member council that is required to override a mayoral veto.
Council chambers were packed on Wednesday night with a crowd who were there to support the override of the veto.
Many of that crowd also appeared to be in attendance in order to support speakers at the public mic who denounced the actions to taken by Indiana University president Pamela Whitten on April 25 and April 27, when she called in state riot police on Dunn Meadow protesters and made a total of 55 arrests over two days.
Council president Isabel Piedmont-Smith led off the meeting reading aloud an open letter to Whitten, signed by eight of nine councilmembers. The letter demanded among other things that the university rescind its quickly enacted new policy, that prohibits tents during the daytime in connection with Dunn Meadow protests. Continue reading “Bloomington council overrides mayor’s veto of resolution on Gaza by same 9–0 vote as before”