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Gene Policinski: First Amendment protects protest movements (access required)

Posted: 5:57 pm Thu, October 13, 2011
By Gene Policinski
Special to The Daily Record

The “Occupy Wall Street” movement and its rapidly spreading urban echoes are — like the tea party movement — grand examples of Americans using at least two of our lesser-known First Amendment freedoms: assembly and petition. Regardless of how you feel about the movements, they are the latest examples of the role of protest in American ...

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