San Jose Metro Article: HP Pavilion Violated Activists 1st Amendment Rights

Below is the link to the SJ Metro article about our local lawsuit to secure our First Amendment rights to leaflet and videotape at the HP Pavilion when Ringling Bros Circus is in town.

Activists who leaflet at Ringling Bros Circus regularly have their First Amendment (free speech) rights violated across the State of California and across the entire country. Just last year in Fresno (CA) activists were not allowed to even leaflet on a public sidewalk because the arena (where Ringling was exhibiting) got the Fresno City Attorney's office to tell Fresno Police to arrest people who leafleted on the public sidewalk.

In other cities activists are kept far from the arena where Ringling is exhibiting -- in an effort to stop patrons from learning about the inherent cruelties involved with using animals in the circus.

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/03.29.06/circus-0613.html

Activists need to know their rights and that they have a California Constitutional right to be on the property at arenas in the state. For more information or questions please contact deniz_b [at] yahoo.com.