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Fight Back Against Your City's Curfew |
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Here you will find essential tools for fighting back against your city's curfew. You can print out anti-curfew stickers and sample press releases, read about other activists, and, in the near future, read expert advice about staging protests.
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| Stage 1: Anti-Curfew Sticker Distribution |
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Print and distribute stickers
Make anti-curfew stickers by downloading out anti-curfew sticker templates. Distribute them in your area to teach people how to legally stay out past your city's curfew. The three stickers include "HANGING OUT IS NOT A CRIME," "REPEAL THE CURFEW," and, taken directly from the First Amendment to the Constitution, "...right of the people to peaceably assemble..." Read more
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Anti-Curfew Sticker Press Release
If you hand out stickers, you'll help hundreds of people in your area. If you get in the news, you'll help thousands. Use our sample press release to tell the press about your efforts. Read more
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Activists have Constitutional rights
As a political activist, you must know your rights. No one can stop you from peacefully distributing political literature on public property. Public property includes all parks, sidewalks, streets, etc. The people who patrol theses areas may try to stop you but don't listen to them. Only stop if they arrest you and then sue your city. |
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Read about two cases in which Florida and New Jersey Libertarians were arrested for distributing political literature but were eventually acquitted. |
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| Stage 2: Lead a Curfew Protest March |
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Protest March Press Release
Use our sample press release to tell the press about your protest march. Read more
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Sample speech for your protest
Here is a speech delivered at a street fair in San Diego a few days before Libertarian Rock’s protest at San Diego’s City Hall in September, 1997. Please use all or parts of it for your protest. |
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| Stage 3: Continue the campaign of protests until the law is repealed |
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