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ANSWER COALITION - At a public meeting called by the National Park
Service in Washington, D.C., representatives from the Partnership for
Civil Justice, ANSWER Coalition, Nicaragua Network, Grassroots America,
ImpeachBush.org and others demanded that there be no new restrictions
placed on the right of the people to access the National Mall for free
speech activities.
The National Park Service is undertaking an plan similar to that
launched to exclude protests from New York City's Great Lawn. It will be
used to further restrict or ban protest on the Mall from current levels.
This is part of a nationwide campaign of corporate-sponsored
organizations working in partnership with government entities that claim
that protests, rallies and demonstrations harm grass, green space or
natural resources and must therefore be restricted or banned or shunted
off to designated protest pits. The National Mall has been used for
decades as the site for mass assembly protest and gatherings.
A lawsuit filed by the Partnership for Civil Justice on behalf of the
National Council of Arab Americans and the ANSWER Coalition successfully
overturned regulations in New York City that were used to prevent mass
assembly protest in the Great Lawn of Central Park during the Republican
National Convention
The NPS has set up a "public-private" partnership that allows business
interests and real estate developers -- in coordination with the
government -- to determine the future of the National Mall. The Jan. 12
public meeting was intended to have low attendance to allow the
government to claim public involvement while simultaneously excluding
it. When confronted with the fact that they had done no legitimate
outreach about the public meeting to the hundreds of thousands of people
who have actually used the National Mall, the President of the Trust for
the National Mall responded that she had sent notice to the Board of
Trade. The NPS issues 3,000 permits a year for the use of the National
Mall, but there has been no effort to notify any of those organizations
about the proposed changes.
TO WRITE THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
https://secure2.convio.net/pep/site/Advocacy?pagename=
homepage&page=UserAction&id=215&JServSessionIdr002=a3f6trm1h1.app13b
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ANSWER COALITION - At a public meeting called by the National Park
Service in Washington, D.C., representatives from the Partnership for
Civil Justice, ANSWER Coalition, Nicaragua Network, Grassroots America,
ImpeachBush.org and others demanded that there be no new restrictions
placed on the right of the people to access the National Mall for free
speech activities.
The National Park Service is undertaking an plan similar to that
launched to exclude protests from New York City's Great Lawn. It will be
used to further restrict or ban protest on the Mall from current levels.
This is part of a nationwide campaign of corporate-sponsored
organizations working in partnership with government entities that claim
that protests, rallies and demonstrations harm grass, green space or
natural resources and must therefore be restricted or banned or shunted
off to designated protest pits. The National Mall has been used for
decades as the site for mass assembly protest and gatherings.
A lawsuit filed by the Partnership for Civil Justice on behalf of the
National Council of Arab Americans and the ANSWER Coalition successfully
overturned regulations in New York City that were used to prevent mass
assembly protest in the Great Lawn of Central Park during the Republican
National Convention
The NPS has set up a "public-private" partnership that allows business
interests and real estate developers -- in coordination with the
government -- to determine the future of the National Mall. The Jan. 12
public meeting was intended to have low attendance to allow the
government to claim public involvement while simultaneously excluding
it. When confronted with the fact that they had done no legitimate
outreach about the public meeting to the hundreds of thousands of people
who have actually used the National Mall, the President of the Trust for
the National Mall responded that she had sent notice to the Board of
Trade. The NPS issues 3,000 permits a year for the use of the National
Mall, but there has been no effort to notify any of those organizations
about the proposed changes.
TO WRITE THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
https://secure2.convio.net/pep/site/Advocacy?pagename=
homepage&page=UserAction&id=215&JServSessionIdr002=a3f6trm1h1.app13b
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