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<blockquote data-quote="UnconTROLLed" data-source="post: 898761" data-attributes="member: 18708"><a href="http://www.bluejersey.com/" target="_blank">Blue Jersey - New Jersey progressive politics and news</a>Occupy Trenton, the 24/7 protest against vast economic disparities now one month old has won its case against the state. Superior Court Judge Mary C. Jacobson has validated the free speech rights of the Trenton protesters maintaining active vigil through all weather. All the supplies confiscated from the occupiers October 14th must now be returned to them by Nov. 14. That&#039;s computers and keyboards, cameras and signs - the very elements that define their exercise of this unique protest - as well as the stuff that supplies the occupiers themselves, like medicine, coolers, food and the warm clothes taken from them. OT&#039;s case was taken up by ACLU-NJ Legal Director Ed Barocas and cooperating attorneys Bennet Zurofsky and David Perry Davis. Barocas: &quot;This is a victory in our efforts to secure full free rights for Occupy Trenton. The state cannot arbitrarily create restrictive policies just because it does not like how people are using a public space.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="UnconTROLLed, post: 898761, member: 18708"] [url=http://www.bluejersey.com/]Blue Jersey - New Jersey progressive politics and news[/url] Occupy Trenton, the 24/7 protest against vast economic disparities now one month old has won its case against the state. Superior Court Judge Mary C. Jacobson has validated the free speech rights of the Trenton protesters maintaining active vigil through all weather. All the supplies confiscated from the occupiers October 14th must now be returned to them by Nov. 14. That's computers and keyboards, cameras and signs - the very elements that define their exercise of this unique protest - as well as the stuff that supplies the occupiers themselves, like medicine, coolers, food and the warm clothes taken from them. OT's case was taken up by ACLU-NJ Legal Director Ed Barocas and cooperating attorneys Bennet Zurofsky and David Perry Davis. Barocas: "This is a victory in our efforts to secure full free rights for Occupy Trenton. The state cannot arbitrarily create restrictive policies just because it does not like how people are using a public space." [/QUOTE]

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