The wires are bursting with news... well, sort'a

Well, the wires are clicking...

Over at the Daily Press they've posted:

Groups plan to protest neo-Nazi rally
BY DAVID CHERNICKY

YORK -- A National Parks Service spokesman today confirmed that two groups have received permission to counter-protest a planned June 25 rally by a neo-Nazi group at Yorktown Battlefield.

The park service received applications on February 28 from the Center for Education Rights of Valley Forge, Pa., and a Newport News synagogue, Congregation Zion's Sake, said spokesman Mike Litterst.

The groups want to rally at the battlefield on the same day that the neo-Nazi group Socialist Reform Movement plans to demonstrate.

The park service approved both applications, Litterst said.

The application by the Center for Education Rights requested permission to stage a non-confrontational rally in a location apart from the Socialist Reform Movement's gathering. Center organizers staged the same sort of counter-rally at Valley Forge last year to protest a Socialist Reform Movement gathering there. The events ended with four arrests and some injuries, Litterst said.

Rabbi Eric Carlson, the other applicant, said he's received a letter from the park service approving the synagogue's application, but the park service didn't specify the location where the group will gather.

"We can quite easily muster 200 to 250 people through our own synagogue," Carlson said, and planners are asking other local synagogues to join the protest.

The arrest & injuries thing is a bit of misinformation. The quote in the article is "The events ended with four arrests and some injuries," Litterst said.Okay, that's true. The day of the Nazi/KKK rally four folks were arrested and some people were injured... but not at the Rally for Social Justice. The Rally for Social Justice was well away from the Nazi gathering; it was peaceful and non-violent; no attendee of the Rally for Social Justice was arrested or injured. Those arrested & injured included people attending the NSM rally and those conducting violent direct action against the Nazi/KKK attendees.

The Rally for Social Justice held -- and holds -- to key values including

• Social Justice


• Diversity


• Tolerance


• Non-violence

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