The participants of Occupy Atlanta are peacefully assembling to protest growing economic inequalities and the hijacking of our democratic process by corporate interests.  They are gathering in a public forum to discuss their grievances and seek solutions.  

When Martin Luther King, Jr. was accused of "disturbing the peace" by his activism during the Montgomery bus boycotts, he noted: "True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice."  Mayor Reed, it our hope that you change course, choose to tolerate the "tension" that comes with hosting Occupy Atlanta, and embrace a fight for justice in our city, our state, our nation, and our world.

In this city - the cradle of the modern civil rights movement - please respect the first amendment and allow Occupy Atlanta to remain in Woodruff Park.  Do not waste taxpayer dollars and police overtime to monitor and suppress a peaceful protest!  Stand for the 99%.