CHICAGO (CBS)– This week marks one month since the mass shooting in Highland Park, and the city is taking important steps in hopes of helping healing.
There is a Highland Park Strong “Survivorship Town Hall” Wednesday night on Zoom at 7:30 p.m. You can register for the Zoom meeting here.
The community will hear from activist and former congresswoman, Gabby Giffords and experts on the healing process Giffords survived a mass shooting attempt in 2011 and founded a gun violence prevention organization.
This week marks one month since the Highland Park parade shooting. The city now offering ways to help the community heal. Tonight they’re bringing in @GabbyGiffords to talk resources and what it means to be a survivor. Details all morning on @cbschicagopic.twitter.com/qCyZCmvZ7E
She and other experts will talk about what it means to be a survivor and ways to get support.
This week, piece by piece, Highland Park city workers cleared the memorial in Port Clinton Square and moved the items to a temporary memorial.
The city is planning to build a permanent memorial to honor the victims.
All of the items from the July 4th parade route have been cleared for release.
If you still need to pick items up, it will either be at the Highland Park Police Department or City Hall for items like chairs and blankets.
In Highland Park Tuesday night, U.S. Rp. Brad Schneider (D-Illinois) used National Night Out to honor some of the heroes who responded to the Highland Park parade massacre. A ceremony took place at City Hall in North Chicago.
Highland Parks Mayor- Nancy Rotering sent out a letter to the community reminding neighbors there is no timeline for how long grief lasts. She’s now reminding the community that faith and community leaders are a resource for dealing with tragedy.
The city will be continuing to have a conversation about public safety.
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<h2>The Pan-Yoruba social political group, Afenifere, has declared that the blueprint for restructuring Nigeria is ready, and President <a href="https://www.naijanews.com/topic/bola-tinubu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bola Ahmed Tinubu</a> has no excuse not to implement it, having been elected on the group's platform and ideology.</h2>
<p><strong>Naija News</strong> reports that the Publicity Secretary of Afenifere, Mogaji Gboyega Adejumo, disclosed this on Tuesday while briefing journalists after the group's caucus meeting held at Isanya Ogbo Ijebu, the Ogun State residence of Pa Ayo Adebanjo, a factional leader of Afenifere.</p>
<p>The meeting, which was presided over by Adebanjo equally had in attendance Oba Oladipo Olaitan, the Deputy leader of the group, Chief Supo Sonibare, Treasurer, Chief Mrs Kofoworola Bucknor, former Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Prince Justice Faloye, Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Chief Segun Ojo, Bashorun Segun Sanni, among others.</p>
<p>The body hinged its restructuring blueprint on the adoption of a parliamentary system of government for Nigeria and called on the Tinubu-led administration to adopt the blueprint.</p>
<p>The group said Tinubu, before his election, was at the vanguard of the call for the restructuring of the country, but there was silence during Muhammadu Buhari's administration because the Northerners had assumed that the implementation would not favour them.</p>
<p>Afenifere said, <em>"Sometimes last year November, a committee under the leadership of Oba Oladipo Olaitan was set up to aggregate Afenifere's view on restructuring and today (Tuesday), the committee said that the report is ready.</em></p>
<p><em>"However, this report will still be considered by the executives of the association, after which it will be taken to the general assembly where all the members will get to know what we stand on restructuring as Afenifere, and we shall then print the report, do our various publicity on it for people to be enlightened on what we believe on restructuring.</em></p>
<p><em>"Tinubu himself is a product of Afenifere, he was elected on the platform and ideology of Afenifere. He took the federal government to court under the leadership of former President Obasanjo for 31 times in an effort to implement restructuring.</em></p>
<p><em>"He didn't do anything when former President Buhari was there for eight years, probably he was bidding his time because he knew that northerners won't implement restructuring because they thought it won't favour them.</em></p>
<p><em>"But Tinubu is there now as the President, he is answerable to us all as a product of Afenifere and as what the whole Yoruba did under the Afenifere in Adamasingba, Ibadan, Oyo State in 2017 that what we want is nothing but restructuring.</em></p>
<p><em>"For this 2017 meeting, we invited the South South, South East and the Middle Belt and this is the beginning of what we called Southern and Middlebelt Leaders Forum.</em></p>
<p><em>"So we are still meeting at this forum when other zones will also submit their recommendations. So what we took to 2014 Confab is what we are submitting even though some things have changed. We will then take it before the National Assembly for their approval."</em></p>
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