Issue 115: May 2, 2002

+== TIME-OUT PROJECT ==+

A new billboard advertising a Census Bureau statistic about immigration has gone up at King’s Highway and East 16th St in Brooklyn. Visible from the Q & V trains, the sign reads: “Immigration is doubling U.S. population in your child’s lifetime.”

This new billboard is the latest in a series of informative outdoor advertisements erected in New York City — all meant to encourage democratic debate on the very important issue of mass immigration.

However, local officials have used the power of their political offices to bully billboard companies into taking down these informative ads twice in the past, and it has taken over a year to get the current one erected on a billboard owned by an independent (and brave) sign owner. We urge the city to reconsider its anti-democratic policy of censorship aimed at ending debate about a policy that is fundamentally altering the future of the United States.

(Thanks to ProjectUSA merchandising director, Lance Marlo, for making this new billboard possible.)
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Picture of new board in Brooklyn
http://projectusa.org/pics.html

‘CITY PLANS CURBS ON ANTI-IMMIGRANT SIGNS’
New York Daily News, August 12, 1999
http://projectusa.org/press/aug99/dailynews8-12-99.html

Billboard Foes Yearn to Breathe Free without Its Presence
New York Times, October 22, 2000
http://projectusa.org/press/oct00/nytimes-10-23-00.html

+== TAKE POSITIVE ACTION ==+

ProjectUSA has two lawsuits pending against the City of New York and the Port Authority of New York/New Jersey. In 1999 and 2000, these entities violated our First Amendment right to free speech by forcing down ProjectUSA billboards similar to the new billboard on King’s Highway.

Please call the NYC public relations department and urge them to stop immigration censorship. After the trauma that New York City has suffered as a result of America’s harmful immigration policies, city leaders should discard their racist obsessions with diversity and allow Americans to consider immigration’s long-term consequences in realistic and non-racial terms. Politely express your hope that they do not force the removal of this new board.

+== QUOTE OF THE WEEK ==+

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
–Salman Rushdie
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/02/opinion/02RUSH.html

+==EMAIL OF THE WEEK==+

Political Correctness and Multiculturism have rendered most politicians impotent concerning “3rd world” immigration. I think the majority of politicians simply look the other way because their career is all that really matters. Ninety per cent of the rest are scared shitless that someone in the media will label them a racist so everyone kind of holds their head in the sand while the media paints a rosy picture for the public saying how blessed we are to have “diversity.”

Tom Tweed
Rochester, NY

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