Comedy | November 09, 2011 | 2 comments

Occupy RVA to Re-Occupy After Police Raid

source: http://above-thefold.com/blog/2011/11/09/occupy-richmond-freedom-bound/

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Richmond, VA–Last night several faculty members from Virginia Commonwealth University held a forum called “Why Occupy?” It was meant to introduce newcomers to our methods of communication and also to explore some of the motives that drove the Occupy movement (or “moment,” as have suggested is a better term) into existence, such as economic inequality, the military industrial complex, and the exploitation of labor. We had a pretty nice turnout, packing a large lecture hall with about/over 250 hundred people. This video pretty much somes it up:
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2 comments // Occupy RVA to Re-Occupy After Police Raid

  • artemis6
  • LOrion
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    • I should hope: Here is a brief historical legal reminder to us all of our First Amendment rights, and that they are Federally protected. (from WIKI)
      'The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. The amendment prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances.'

      Now, originally, the First Amendment applied only to laws enacted by the Congress. However, starting with Gitlow v. New York, 268 US 652 (1925), in a series of cases, the Supreme Court has held that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment applies the First Amendment to each state, county and local government. The city (or state) CAN MAKE NO LAW policy or code that can supersede our Federal Right to Assemble, and Petition for Redress of Grievances (which means SIGNAGE!)

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