From: City Council
To:
Subject: RE: Ceasefire Resolution
Date: Tuesday, April 2, 2024 8:42:00 AM
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From: Michelle Williams
Sent: Monday, April 1, 2024 9:45 PM
To: City Council <[email protected]>; Mary Gourley <[email protected]>
Subject: Ceasefire Resolution
Dear Councilmembers,
I grew up spending my summers in Sebastopol as a child. My immediate family lived in Europe, but for three months every summer we would return to Sebastopol. After we moved back to California, my family settled in Santa Rosa, but I remained extremely close with my cousins and friends from Sebastopol. While I was in highschool, I attended every Analy dance and football game. I still spend a lot of my weekends in Sebastopol - shopping, taking my kids to the parks and festivals, and having dinner with friends and family.
I hope Sebastopol lives up to the amazing reputation it has built in Sonoma County and beyond; a place of peace, love, inclusion, and belonging. A place where hate and violence has no place.
I urge you to do something you can be proud of, stand with humanity. Be leaders and call for peace. Our children are watching a genocide unforld in real time. Our children are asking how are people not stopping it? When the first 50 cities signed Ceasefire Resolutions, it was courageous. When the next 100 did, it was brave. Soon, we will be looking at cities that failed to do it and asking why they stayed silent, and at what point their lack of action became complicity.
Respectfully,
Michelle Williams