Many thanks to Dave Doctor of Libertarian Rock for contributing this resource to NYRA.
Here you will find essential tools for fighting back against your city's curfew. You can print out anti-curfew stickers and sample press releases, read about other activists, and, in the near future, read expert advice about staging protests.
Stage 1: Form a NYRA Chapter
Join NYRA
Join a network of over 3500 youth activists around the country who all oppose curfews. Get updates on efforts around the country to repeal curfew laws, and how you can get involved in the effort. Before starting a chapter you should join the most exciting Youth Rights organization around. Read more
Start a Chapter
If you are considering a campaign against your curfew, starting a NYRA chapter will help you out greatly. Having support of a national organization, makes a big difference in a local campaign. NYRA staff will help you through the process of forming a chapter, its not difficult. You are on your way to becoming a force in local politics. Read more
Stage 2: Anti-Curfew Sticker Distribution
Print and distribute stickers
Make anti-curfew stickers by downloading our anti-curfew sticker templates. Distribute them in your area to teach people how to legally stay out past your city's curfew. The three stickers include "HANGING OUT IS NOT A CRIME," "REPEAL THE CURFEW," and, taken directly from the First Amendment to the Constitution, "...right of the people to peaceably assemble..." Read more
Anti-Curfew Sticker Press Release
If you hand out stickers, you'll help hundreds of people in your area. If you get in the news, you'll help thousands. Use our sample press release to tell the press about your efforts. Read more
Sample speech for your protest
Here is a speech that Dave Doctor delivered at a street fair in San Diego a few days before Libertarian Rock’s protest at San Diego’s City Hall in September, 1997. Use it for inspiration for your own curfew speech.
Another Sample speech for your protest
Here is the speech Alex Koroknay-Palicz gave on November 4, 1999 at the second Washington, DC Curfew Protest. Use it for inspiration for your own curfew speech.
Stage 4: Continue the campaign of protests until the law is repealed
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