Reply #79: need some help here in St Petersburg FL [View All]

[peacemike]

We need some help here in St Petersburg FL, with opinions from DU.

Barricades have been placed on a city sidewalk, to prevent anti-war protesters from crossing.

Democracy for America, the Save America Coalition, St. Pete for Peace, Veterans for Peace and quite honestly, who knows how many other groups, (along with many, many happy individuals), joined in solidarity to re-claim public space.


We are working with the ACLU on an injunction on barricades placed on a city sidewalk, to prevent anti-war protesters from crossing the sidewalk.

The city has denied free speech Zones last year.

I and 5 others were arrested 2 weeks ago (2 of us for standing on the sidewalk)
(see http://stpeteforpeace.org/baywalk.html for the back-story.)

There is a very public survey at the St. Petersburg Times.
Need DU’ers to vote their conscience.

I Have frequently read the DU board but have not posted before and am requesting a thread somewhere to ask for people to answer the answer the survey at
http://sptimes.com/2005/08/19/Southpinellas/Weekend_BayWalk_car_b.shtml