Good morning, readers.
My colleagues Lena Geller and Chase Pellegrini de Paur have been monitoring the local response to the Israel-Hamas conflict since the war began in October. Yesterday, the INDY published a comprehensive timeline of noteworthy local events that have happened across the Triangle to this point.
For months, local activists have put pressure on city and state officials to sign ceasefire resolutions, both as a symbolic measure and a way to put pressure on the federal government, staging public protests and speaking at public hearings.
On Monday, the Durham city council could officially take a vote on a ceasefire resolution. Their neighbors at the Raleigh and Chapel Hill councils both declined to consider their own resolution, citing a lack of consensus among their colleagues and concern for further divisiveness. Durham would be the second city to pass a resolution after Carrboro signed its own last November.
Durham mayor Leonardo Williams convened a working group of residents and other officials in January to help craft a resolution that the council felt comfortable backing. After receiving pushback on the first published draft of the resolution at the council’s last work session on February 8, the draft resolution has been updated. If the council passes the resolution on Monday, it would put renewed pressure on neighboring governments to reconsider their position.
Have a great weekend, readers.
—Justin
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