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200
March
in
Protest
of
Surveillance
Cameras
in
Washington
Square
Park
2/6/98
On February 1, 200 New York City residents, angered over Mayor Giuliani's
installation of surveillance cameras in Washington Square, marched on the
venerable park, centerpiece of New York's fabled Greenwich Village, to
voice their concerns. Surveillance cameras are already in use in some public
housing projects in the city, and Mayor Giuliani, citing a decrease in
crime in areas where the cameras have been installed, says the city plans
to expand the program.
"We are at a point where we now have many more requests for cameras
than we have cameras, or than we're ready yet to do, because we want to
make sure we're doing this in a careful way" Giuliani told the New
York Times. Speakers at the rally, however, had serious concerns. Tonya
D. McClary, director of research at the NAACP legal defense fund, said,
"once you give them the O.K. to do this, they will take it and run
with it. We've pretty much allowed them a green light to put these cameras
in parks, public schools, in the subway system and in city buses. Soon,
none of us will have a place where we can sit back and be ourselves."
The protest was organized by the New York Civil Liberties Union.
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Issue #28, 2/6/98
Attention All Students: Plug in, Stand up, Speak out!! DRCNet invites you to join U-NET | Alert: Call to Action -- Johnnie Mae Brown | California Correspondent Needed for The Week Online | 200 March in Protest of Surveillance Cameras in Washington Square Park | A Conversation with Norman Siegel, Executive Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union | Enormous Drug-Corruption Scandal Rocks Scotland Yard | Canadian Activists Vow Massive Civil Disobedience: Will open numerous medical marijuana outlets | Mexican Unit Conducting Inquiry into Disappearances Found to be Infiltrated by Drug Traffickers | Editorial: Surveillance, Corruption, and the War on Drugs
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