ASSEMBLE FOR RIGHTS NYC JOINS RADICAL HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA PARADE WITHOUT A PERMIT IN HONOR OF CHRISTINE QUINN

When: Thursday, April 19th at 4:00pm
Where: City Hall Park

On April 19th, The Radical Homosexual Agenda (RHA), with other civil rights interested groups, will hold a "Parade Without a Permit" at City Hall at 4 pm to protest the new NYPD parade permit rules. The Assemble For Rights NYC coalition stands in solidarity with RHA and these groups and will join them Thursday in their first amendment protected peaceful assembly.

Counter to the NYPD's intent to increase safety, their new rules increase tension on the streets by creating conflicts with peaceful groups where there was none. Assemble For Rights NYC will join RHA in calling on City Council and Speaker Christine Quinn to overturn the NYPD's counter productive parade rules.

The "Parade Without a Permit" is intended to challenge both the recent NYPD parade law and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. "The Stonewall rebellion shattered an environment of police repression and social marginalization. It was a watershed event in which the queer community said enough to police and political repression" said 37 year-old Jessica Rechtschaffer, a member of the Radical Homosexual Agenda and New York City resident. "And now Quinn is taking away the very civil rights that made it possible for her to become the Speaker of City Council."

In January 2007, the NYPD passed a new law attacking freedom of assembly. The police law states "any procession or race that consists of a recognizable group of 50 or more pedestrians [or] vehicles... proceeding together upon any public street" must apply to the police for a permit. And then, they may gather only if the police approve.

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