Mitch Snyder, head of the Community for Creative Non-Violence, said local shelters here are jammed with mentally ill people.

The group is appealing (Community for Creative Non-Violence v. Reid).

Most critical of the Mayor was Mitch Snyder, director of the Community for Creative Non-Violence.

The event, beginning at 3 o'clock today, was organized by the Community for Creative Non-Violence, a local organization that lobbies for the homeless.

Brian Anders, a spokesman for the Community for Creative Non-Violence, said that Mr. Snyder, like others in the organization, had received no salary from it.

The agreement requires him to advise people who buy his copies that the sales will not benefit the Community for Creative Non-Violence.

Mr. Reid donated his time to complete the statue, but the Community for Creative Non-Violence paid him $15,000 for expenses incurred in creating it.

Voices for Creative Non-Violence (category search).

(Community for Creative Non-Violence v. Reid, No. 88-293.)

Her father, a writer and lecturer, is a founder of the Community for Creative Non-Violence, an advocacy group for homeless people, based in Washington.