Here is a forward to you all, an obit for the 1st amendment in the USA... No more Viet Nam like protests? Sure, just declare a deeper color of alert and the constitution goes out the window...
Larry

From: Jen Geiger
Organization: Women's International League
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003
WILPF-US: Judge Denies March Permit, Feb 15 Protest Goes On

Dear Friend of United for Peace and Justice and WILPF:

To our great shock and outrage, Federal Judge Barbara Jones ruled
this morning that the City of New York can deny United for Peace
and Justice a permit to march on February 15. Citing "heightened
security concerns," she ruled that we may only hold a stationary
rally, for which we have been granted a permit for First Avenue
stretching north from 49th Street.

We are accepting the rally permit, and our massive demonstration
to stop the Iraq war will go forward no matter what. But we are
appalled by this attack on our basic First Amendment rights, and we
will continue to fight for the right to march. Our attorneys, the New
York Civil Liberties Union, have already filed an appeal, and we are
asking all of our supporters to protest passionately against this
attempt to stifle the growing opposition to Bush's war.

We will provide you with more information soon on this rapidly
evolving situation. For now, we encourage you to keep organizing
and mobilizing for February 15 -- we have a legal permit to rally, and
we cannot and will not let the NYPD and the Bush Administration
silence our cry for peace.

More than 300 cities around the globe will be holding protests this
weekend against the Iraq war: Let's make New York City's protest
the biggest, most passionate anti-war gathering of them all.

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

1) KEEP MOBILIZING FOR FEB. 15: The NYPD wants to discourage
people from coming to this protest -- we need to redouble our
efforts to make February 15 an enormous gathering for peace.
Please contact Fran Geteles asap
(fgeteles@igc.org or 212-663-8048) if you are organizing buses or
trains. Check out our website at
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/feb15 -- we've added lots of new
information.

2) SPREAD THE WORD: Forward this message widely, post the
assembly location on your website, tell everyone you know that the
February 15 protest is indeed happening and that we have a permit
to rally at 49th Street and First Avenue.

3) SPEAK OUT: The denial of our right to march sets a very
dangerous precedent for free speech in this country -- we ask you
to raise the biggest ruckus you can about this attack on our rights.
Some suggestions:

>>Fax a statement from your organization to NYC Mayor Michael
Bloomberg insisting on our right to march on February 15.
Fax#: (212) 788-2460

>>Ask sympathetic elected officials, community leaders, and/or
celebrities to contact Mayor Bloomberg and demand that the City
issue a march permit.

>>Contact your local media, write letters to the editor, call in to
radio talk shows, get the word out about this outrageous denial of
our Constitutional rights.

>>Make phone calls of protest to these officials:
*NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg: 212-788-9600, 212-788-3010,
212-788-3040
*NYC Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly: 646-610-8526
*NYPD Chief of Department Joseph Esposito: 646-610-6710

>>Send emails protesting the denial of our march permit
*Mayor Bloomberg:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/mail/html/mayor.html
*Commissioner Kelly: rkelly@nypd.nyc.gov
*Chief Esposito: jesposito@nypd.nyc.gov

>>Sign this online petition supporting our right to march:
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?FEB15

If you're not already on our email list, you can receive future
updates like this one about the February 15 mobilization by visiting
http://unitedforpeace.org/email.php

Thanks for your support -- we can still prevent this war, and
together we will win the right to march.

Sincerely,
The February 15 organizing staff of
United for Peace and Justice