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A group of DC Metro area photographers and public participants are fed up with private developers talking over public, and publicly funded spaces, imposing restrictive rules that infringe on Constitutional rights.
The recent altercation with Chip Py was the last straw and now its time to take back the streets. It’s time for declaration of photographic freedoms on the perfect day: July 4th.
DC Metrobloggers Don Whiteside, Wayan Vota, and Tom Bridge are coordinating an Ellsworth Drive Photo Tour on July 4th, 2007 at 12:00pm to express our displeasure at the curtailing of our rights on city streets.
Our goal is to have PFA Silver Spring LC welcome photography, videography, and other filming on Ellsworth Drive, consistent with First Amendment rights as they would apply on any other public street.
You’re welcome to join, the procession is poised to be a civic event for the whole family. Photographer Carl Weaver will be on hand to provide tips and information on improving your photography. Local press and politicians will be on hand seeking and providing fleeting fame. Peterson Management will be providing the day’s entertainment.
Bravo! The Wash Post can’t find their way down the Pike from Rockville, so we can do it ourselves. We might also want to check on the # of jobs Discovery is demolishing, the plight of the boarded-up storefronts on Colesville, the preponderance of cars in the Kennett St Garage who are exempt from paying for parking stickers, etc. In other words, the dark underbelly of the “new, improved” Duncanville. By the way, what happened to Doug’s $700,000 in unused campaign funds? Up the revolution! dfs