City Council member Melissa Mark Viverito has joined the list of Council members willing to stand up for civil liberties in New York City. Mark Viverito opposes NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly's attempt to enact new Parade Permitting rules for the City and will be attending the public hearing at One Police Plaza on November 27th to voice her opposition.
Mark Viverito represents district 8, which includes Manhattan Valley, East Harlem in Manhattan, and part of Mott Haven in the Bronx. She was born and raised in Puerto Rico and worked for 1199 SEIU, New York's Health Care Union, before being elected in 2005. Her campaign platform included easier access to the electoral process and greater transparency in city government.
neding a permit to be a part of a group of 5-10 or more people
for myself just getting together with family members in the summer months would lead us to be arrested or interferred with and questioned as suspicious by the police as I am a member of a large family and we have on ocassion have designated a public place as our meeting point to either pick up others or proceed on to the park or outing this is outrageous and a REAL ABUSE of POWER.
even groups of co-workers who may be waiting on each other to travel together to a workshop given by the employer will be eyed or jacked up by the police and scrutinized for i.d. and the like this is going to get a lot worse if we ALL don't sound the alarms before the horses get out of the barn. the "democracy and freedom" of the U.S. as we once knew it is fast becoming a memory of the past these are the inchings of putting dictatorship into place slowly and quietly like the abuses and vicitimizations were slipped into practice in Germany we have to take our complaints to the world court because the elitist here at home are much too arrogant and cocky they may start another civil war here at home because its only so much pressure and stress a person can cope with or take because that's the way it is.