Yesterday, Cheri Honkala and Deeq Abdi of the Poor Peoples
Economic Human Rights Campaign were both given
fines today in court for being in a public HUD office
during buisness hours. Honkala and Abdi went to
Housing And Urban Development with other members
of PPEHRC after HUD Director Dexter Sidney went back
on his written commitment to meet with families who were
being foreclosed on in the state of Minnesota during
the Republican National Convention.

Dexter himself appeared in court today along
with his attorney and five other staff members of
HUD.

HUD's attorney argued that the HUD office was in
danger of being visited again by Ms. Honkala and a
stay away order was than placed on Cheri Honkala.
A stay away order wasn't given to Deeq Abdi.

Honkala's closing statement to the Judge was "It's
a sad day in Minnesota when we have a foreclousre
crisis in our state and I'm not allowed to go into a
public government office during office hours to
petition my government."

Abdi & Honkala were represented by Ted Dooley of the National Lawyers Guild.

Labels: Cheri Honkala, Deeq Abdi, Dexter Sidney, HUD Sit-in, MN PPEHRC, Ted Dooley