Uncovering Secrets: Plan to Privatize the National Mall
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ImpeachBush is circulating the following message from the Partnership
for Civil Justice, which is spearheading the campaign to stop the
Bush administration's assault on free speech in Washington, DC. The
Bush administration has been quietly attempting to privatize the
National Mall, one of the country's most important protest sites,
and it is up to us to take action and spread the word. Please take
a moment to circulate this message to your friends, family members,
classmates and co-workers, and on social networking sites. Bush has
systematically attacked the First Amendment since he came into
office, and your help is needed to stop him in his tracks.
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UNCOVERING SECRETS Freedom of Information Act Requests Demand
Government Release National Mall Documents
The Partnership for Civil Justice has filed two Freedom of Information
Act (FOIA) requests on behalf of the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition seeking
critical information about the effort of the Bush Administration
to privatize the National Mall.
One FOIA demands the government release information about the make-up
of the Trust for the National Mall, the private business-led entity
that the National Park Service (NPS) has authorized to partner in
its planned remake of the National Mall. The government has so far
refused to disclose critical information about the Trust, including
its Board of Directors. The FOIA also demands records of communications
between the Bush Administration, the NPS and the private Trust.
Since thousands of people around the country have written the NPS
demanding that the National Mall remain fully open for free speech
activities, the government has back-tracked and claimed that their
plans to create a "protest pit" are only an option under consideration
-- but two official reports put out last year by the NPS say
otherwise.
The second FOIA request demands the Bush Administration's NPS release
information regarding those plans, as evidenced in the reports, to
restrict or ban First Amendment activities on the National Mall
including their written plans to "pave civic space and speaker's
corners for First Amendment Demonstrations" so as to "reduce the
impact" on the "experience of other visitors."
Please make a contribution to support these efforts. The Bush
Administration and the businesses have unlimited funds to pursue
their goals and are raising more and more every day. Please join
with tens of thousands of others who are standing up for our free
speech rights by supporting this campaign. You can help make a
difference in this important fight by making a generous donation
today.
These FOIAs are part of the larger campaign in Defense of Free
Speech Rights on the National Mall. The campaign seeks to defeat
the efforts of the Bush Administration and Corporate America to
inhibit, obstruct and banish Free Speech protests on the National
Mall in Washington, DC and in other park lands and public spaces
around the country. You can read a copy of the two FOIA requests
by clicking here (to download the first:
And here (to download the second)
Please Help with an Urgently Needed Donation
The outcome of this struggle to preserve Free Speech in Washington
D.C. will have an enormous impact for many years to come. When the
people come to Washington to stand up for what they believe in, the
National Mall has been the central gathering place. This struggle
to preserve "America's Front Yard" for Free Speech can't be done
without your help. You can make a tax-deductible donation on-line
or see how to send a check by clicking this link.
If you want to make a donation that is not-tax-deductible you can
also do so by clicking here.
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Take Action
Sign the Statement in Defense of Free Speech Rights on the National
Mall
Click this link to send your message to the National Park Service
Forward this email by clicking this link
Please click this link to make a donation to this effort right now
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