“Public space, by its very nature and construct, is the neutral common ground that we the people own and fund collectively,” said Nidhi Gulati at Project for Public Spaces, a nonprofit that creates community-based public places. “It’s the most rightful place for us to occupy as members of a civil society to express our opinions.”
For the Bay Area Monitor I interviewed Bay Area Women's March organizers and discuss civic open spaces as places for the citizenry to exercise their First Amendment Rights.
This article appeared in the League Centennial Special Edition of the Bay Area Monitor, a publication of the League of Women Voters of the Bay Area. Please contact me for a PDF. Unfortunately, the journal ended and was not archived.
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| Photo by Aleta George taken at Women's March Contra Costa |
This article appeared in the League Centennial Special Edition of the Bay Area Monitor, a publication of the League of Women Voters of the Bay Area. Please contact me for a PDF. Unfortunately, the journal ended and was not archived.
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