Organizers of the upcoming “No Kings” rally in Helena say that a new state rule banning permits for weekend rallies on the Capitol grounds violates their First Amendment rights. State officials countered that the new rule, quietly instituted just last month, was intended to save money.
The update to permitting guidelines on the Montana.gov site, which has not been previously reported, states that public events requiring a permit “may only occur on weekdays and between the hours of 7 a.m. and 6 p.m., excluding holidays.”
The revisions apply to all state-owned or leased spaces or grounds at the Capitol Complex. The policy requires a permit for any public event that uses “state resources, requires setup of any structures, materials, displays, or requires clean-up.” A public event is defined as “any event that is open to the public and to which the public will have full access.”
Do it anyway.
That’s literally the point of these protests.
We won’t listen to their authoritarianism.
Obviously they won’t sanction your protests. Like that should matter. If Nazis say they don’t want opposition, are you just going to say okay, we won’t protest without a permit?
That’s insane.
A protest with a permit is a parade.
So far all they’ve been is parades
We will not have change without enough people realzing that enough other people are willing to stand up for that change.
Online discussion is the foundation for protests, and protests are the foundation for change. We need to build on those. They are useful for those reasons, but people are correct that they themselves will not effect the change we need.
“may only occur
on weekdays and between the hours of 7 a.m. and 6 p.m., excluding holidays.when you have to be at work.”So they want a general strike in addition to this protest? Interesting strategy.
Lol so… Everyone in the restaurant industry unite and lead this shit.
Yalls weekend is Monday Tuesday, and your days start at 3pm.
Ezpz.
If you don’t want to pay for the permitting costs or organizing public protest through a permit system then people get to publicly protest without getting permits. You don’t get to eliminated a constitutional right over a budget reduction. Like wtf, these leaders are a threat to basic rights.
All those people who keep telling us protesting is useless please explain why republicans in power keep trying to suppress protests. What are they scared of?
And how they’re so under reported lately.
Yeaaaah that ain’t gonna work. Protesting the government only when they allow it? Nah fuck all the way off with that.
Stand up Montana! They are trying to stomp on your rights!
Go on, make peaceful protest impossible. I’m begging you.
I heard there IS one, but the location keeps changing. People should have their gear handy and take their signs and see which one is up and running. Just walk between all the rumoured locations (safely using crosswalks, of course) all day.
You’re not gathering in protest: you haven’t found the venue yet. But you’ll tell everyone to go home when you get there. Thank you officer.
Well montana is big. I would guess it would be in multiple locations.
If you need permission it isn’t a right
Conservatives hate democracy.
They always have and they likely always will.
IOW, you can only protest on days and at times when most people are at work, therefore less people will protest.
If they can’t do it legally, they will do it illegally. Making it difficult just incentivizes resistance.
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Just tell everyone to leave their signs at home, clean up after themselves, and walk the capitol grounds and/or the surrounding areas chanting/yelling phrases in unison. Hard to drown out the unified voices of 1,000 people. That way they don’t use state resources, and don’t set up any structures, materials, or displays.
You dont ask for rights, you take them.
