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Tell Target to Drop Lawsuit Against Canvass For a Cause
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    1. CEO, Target (+ 1 other)
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      • CEO, Target (Gregg Steinhafel)
      • Target Media Relations
  2. Created By
    Michael Jones
    Boston, MA
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Chain store Target recently filed a lawsuit to prohibit the pro-equality group Canvass for a Cause from advocating outside its San Diego stores. Though Target would like to frame the case as a matter of private property, it's actually about free speech, and how the store's suppressing it in the name of its self-interest. 

The store's actions are even more troubling, because they resemble rights infractions exhibited elsewhere, like Harding University, which squashed LGBT students' free speech to uphold its religion-based discrimination. 

Civil rights should not be so malleable, or disposable. If Target believes in this nation's most basic freedoms, it will drop its lawsuit and let Canvass for a Cause practice its free speech and freedom of assembly. 

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Drop the lawsuit against Canvass for a Cause

Dear Mr. Steinhafel,

It has come to my attention that you recently filed a lawsuit to prevent San Diego-based equality group Canvass for a Cause from assembling outside your store.

While you would like people to see this case as a matter of your property rights, you're in fact trouncing civil rights to maintain what you call a "distraction-free shopping environment."

Such a concern, though, pales when compared to our nation's basic rights.

I hope that you will see the light and reverse course, because our nation's civil rights must be protected at all costs, and are far more pressing than preserving a politically neutral zone outside your store.

Thank you for your time.

[Your name]

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