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Why we protest lawfully... #usdor #sept17 #occupywallstreet
by USDOR - Open-Publishing - Sunday 18 September 2011US Day of Rage endorses our peaceful and legal horizontal mesh tactical plan for the occupation and creation of independent block assemblies of people.
Our plan represents the strongest test of the 1st amendment on the PUBLIC SIDEWALKS of Wall Street.
YOU DO NOT NEED A PERMIT TO OCCUPY OR PEACEABLY ASSEMBLE ON PUBLIC SIDEWALKS. Under a 2000 federal court ruling, the use of "public sleeping as a means of symbolic expression" is allowed on public sidewalks in New York City as long as you do not block pedestrians or doorway entrances and exits. See METROPOLITAN COUNCIL, INC., Plaintiff, -against- HOWARD SAFIR, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department, et al., June 12, 2000 [99 F. Supp. 2d 438; 2000 U.S. Dist.]
US Day of Rage does not endorse any tactical plan for #sept17 that plans to converge assemblies of people on private property. The NYC General Assembly, for example, has proposed that Chase Manhattan Plaza be used as the site of a temporary convergence assembly on #Sept17. We know, however, that the CEO of Chase Manhattan, however, has a fiduciary responsibility to shareholders to prevent any occupation or assembly on bank property. He would be obliged to call the NYPD and seek the removal of trespassers according to NY State Law (as of June 23, 2008) Section 140.05 Trespass. A person is guilty of trespass when he or she knowingly enters or remains unlawfully in or upon premises is in violation of the law.
In that scenario, the NYPD would be duty-bound to remove people in the same way as they would be duty bound to act on your complaint if an assembly of people set up camp in your front yard.
Any occupation tactic that involves the use of private property plays directly into the Mayors hands by providing him with a reason to arrest the protestors without ’getting his hands dirty’.
The NYPD will be acting in accordance with the law as a result of an unlawful trespass and the occupation of private property from a citizen.
US Day of Rage’s plan to lawfully occupy and create sidewalk block assemblies on PUBLIC SIDEWALKS is in accordance with the law of the land. The right to freedom of speech and peaceable assembly represents a make or break moment for Mayor’s office. Any attempt to remove protestors would be directly in contravention of the 1st amendment of the Constitution. Citizens United, the Department of Homeland Security, and the NYPD/CIA protect corporation’s freedom of speech when it comes to campaign financing. Real citizens, real people, should have the same right to the 1st amendment on the PUBLIC SIDEWALKS in New York City.