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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Presidential Inaugural Committee is blocking the Women's March access to the Mall
I can't link just now but Time.com is reporting that they've bought up all the permits for all the streets around the inaugural site and the Mall for the weeks before and after the inauguration. This is going to get very nasty very fast, folks.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)me when I say freedom of speech and expression are going to be taken away along with freedom of press.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)except the wealthy
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)All that empty space around the worm. I'd turn on the TV to see that. But just long enough to laugh hysterically.
bluedigger
(17,085 posts)csziggy
(34,131 posts)Cady Lang 2:57 PM ET
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According to The Guardian, the National Park Service, on behalf of the Presidential Inauguration Committee, has blocked access to the landmark by filing a massive omnibus blocking permit. This will bar protesters from most of the National Mall, Pennsylvania Avenue, the Washington Monument, and of course, the Lincoln Memorial for days and weeks before, during, and after the inauguration, which will take place on Jan. 20, 2017.
The Womens March on Washington was organized for January 21, the day following the inauguration and was set to be held at the Lincoln Memorial. According to a Facebook event, over 136,000 people are due to attend. Now, with the blocking of access to many of the spaces commonly used to protest, participants will have to find space elsewhereno easy feat considering how few public spaces to gather will be free during the time period surrounding the inauguration.
Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, executive director of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, said in a press conference for the Answer (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) Coalition, said that shes worked on court battles for protest access on inauguration before, but this instance is extremely unique in that it banned access to public land (which Answer Coalitions press release notes, are historic spaces for dissent) for protesters days after the inauguration.
It hasnt come up in any way previously, where youve had a groundswell of people trying to have access on the Saturday, January 21, and thousands of people want to come, and the government is saying we wont give you a permit, she said. What theyve done is take all of these spaces out of action.
http://time.com/4595399/women-march-washington-barred-lincoln-memorial/
hatrack
(59,566 posts).
csziggy
(34,131 posts)When I was in Washington touring the National Mall on November 7 & 8 the only construction I saw was of the stands for the inauguration. They were taking down the scaffolding around the Capitol Building and cleaning some of the statues along the Mall. Our guide said that work was being done so they would look good on January 20.
How can they stop thousands of people simply showing up to sight see on any particular day?
CTyankee
(63,883 posts)"the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
This is a classic First Amendment case and the ACLU will be all over it...
nolabear
(41,930 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)To borrow an expression I heard somewhere...
MFM008
(19,803 posts)Fucksticks.
onethatcares
(16,161 posts)show up for the shit parade and be ready to be shot with rubber bullets.
Live on all the networks.
How the fuck can they get away with this?
HipChick
(25,485 posts)nolabear
(41,930 posts)Blocking access. Will they be willing to teargas and flash bang their mothers, sisters, daughters?
By my count thousands will be there. This is not going to go down easy.
demmiblue
(36,816 posts)WASHINGTON, D.C. Hundreds of thousands of people from across the country plan to pour into the nations capital to protest Donald Trumps inauguration in late January. But the National Park Service has reserved most of D.C.s iconic public spaces for the exclusive use of Trumps Inaugural Committee, not just on Inauguration Day itself but for the weeks leading up to and following the ceremony. Protest groups will have no access to these spaces unless the Committee voluntarily gives up their permits, which they have no incentive to do.
Local legal groups, including the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, call this move unprecedented and unconstitutional, and they say they are weighing legal action.
This blocking permit that the National Park Service filed is an affront to the First Amendment. It is a violation of free speech rights, and it is a violation of the democratic process, in which voices must be heard, said Carl Messineo, the organizations legal director. Collective assembly is in the very first amendment to the bill of rights because it is so essential to the functioning of a vital and healthy democracy.
The Park Service has granted Trumps Inaugural Committee the right to reserve all of Constitution Avenue, all of Independence Avenue, Lafayette Park, the White House sidewalk, and the Ellipse at the base of Capitol Hill from January 6 to January 30.
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-gets-to-decide-where-in-dc-groups-can-protest-his-inauguration-if-at-all-13d9546edde0
Arsehole.
Vinca
(50,236 posts)suffragette
(12,232 posts)nolabear
(41,930 posts)brooklynite
(94,302 posts)Hold one in every major and minor City
nolabear
(41,930 posts)Being willing to go to those extremes and in those numbers to match right up his nose is important. And many cities are holding them as well.
pstokely
(10,522 posts)nt
s-cubed
(1,385 posts)Squinch
(50,901 posts)roamer65
(36,744 posts)Make the tear gas flow!
nolabear
(41,930 posts)Gas masks, goggles, milk, wet cloths, padded clothing, fully charged phones and extra chargers, and lots of wisdom from people who know about passive resistance.
bdamomma
(63,791 posts)and please record the march because you know the media will not be showing the revolution.
RandiFan1290
(6,221 posts)The republicons were allowed to do it
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)"Get back in the freakin kitchen now, you useless slob. Make me a sandwich and get me a beer." - Republicans
bdamomma
(63,791 posts)and there will be more women out there marching. The emperor has no clothes what a sick man, he denies dividing the states and people.
bdamomma
(63,791 posts)nolabear
(41,930 posts)I don't know how far it will go but they were discussing asking people in the area to display supportive signs, help with supplies, allow people to gather on their property, etc. They also are encouraging people to bring air horns to the inauguration.