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There comes a time when you heed a certain call and can’t sit and be silent anymore. Maybe it’s your heart. Maybe it’s your soul. Maybe it’s your rage about some injustice — and not just yours, but it spreads widely and others feel the same way.
They’re protesting a pair of bills they say would limit their ability to protest. And they have their sights on one of the lawmakers who sponsored that legislation: Assemblyman Jeffrey …
Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz has put his name on two bills that would criminalize disruptive acts of protest. One would make it a misdemeanor if protesters disrupt speakers at an event, while the other would charge protesters who block a public road or bridge with a felony for domestic terrorism.
Assembly Member Stacey Pheffer Amato introduced a bill that would treat peacefully blocking a road or bridge as an act of “domestic terrorism.”