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BREAKING NEWS
http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/thebusiness/080724/ *Good site for artists’ rights overview *
http://www.ncac.org/action_issues/Public_Spaces.cfm
which leads you to New York’s precedent setting case - Artists win.
http://www.buskersadvocates.org/saalegalCtPerryappeal.html Artist wins.
In /White v. City of Sparks/, painter Steven White challenged the
constitutionality of a city ordinance that required him to obtain a permit
before selling his paintings in public
parks. http://www.art-teez.org/free-speech-movement/white-v-city-of-sparks-opinion.pdf
decided 2000. Since this time artists in St. Augustine have allowed the City to pass new restrictive laws without response and have lost some of their First Amendment rights. However, the court case Celli won is still a valid precedent for us to use as needed. Eternal vigilance is needed to maintain your speech rights because powerful interests are ever ready to pass new local laws that impact your rights. You need only read into the many messages of the second link below to learn how New York City artists have resisted the attempts to take their rights and, thereby, their livelihoods away. The same tricks may be used by our opposition.
Wienberg v. City of Chicago (when all the National Sports Leagues joined with the City to appeal and lost when the Supreme Court refused to hear their appeal.) Wienberg - the Chicago author - won.
http://www.ahcuah.com/lawsuit/federal/weinberg1.htm
*NY Artist and Organizer* - Robert Lederman, president of A.R.T.I.S.T.,
or Artists’ Response to Illegal State Tactics – This Yahoo Groups page links to ten years of messages about all the New York City actions and court cases over the years. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NYCStreetArtists/messages/1
Part 1 - A.R.T.I.S.T. - Artists Response To Illegal State Tactics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKOb4_5L5qw&NR=1
Part 2 - A.R.T.I.S.T. - Artists Response To Illegal State Tactics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdbJdjreMyA&NR=1
Part 3 - A.R.T.I.S.T. - Artists Response To Illegal State Tactics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3klyJofzMI&NR=1
NY City A.R.T.I.S.T. is presently organized to fight all attempts by NYC to sneak their rights away. This is why NYC artists can enjoy their rights.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Be5_xzT8hA
