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25 Years at the White House Gates It Hasn’T Lafayette Park, and Have Been Used Been Easy Extensively to Chase Most People Away 25 Years at the White House Gates It Hasn’t Lafayette Park, and have been used Been Easy extensively to chase most people away. But patience, During the early perseverence, 1980’s, hostile Park creativity, Thomas’s Police and Secret pro se lawsuits Service officers against police tried to drive Thomas and misconduct, and sympathetic friends Concepcion away. have kept Thomas and Concepcion At first they were north of the White House, touching arrested and the minds and hearts of many. charged with “loitering” or Other People “disturbing the Come and Go peace.” But few judges Many people have would convict them, joined Thomas and and no judge would imprison them, Longest Continuous Vigil Anywhere? Concepcion in knowing the history of the First vigiling for varying Amendment. every American to set up a stand and lengths of time. I By Ellen Thomas Thanks to the 1976 Stacey Abney make a point in Lafayette Park." was one of them, decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals, from 1984 to 2002. sleep as part of a round-the-clock vigil Since June 3, 1981, nine years to the Of the many extraordinary people was still considered, in and of itself, day before tanks rolled into Tiananmen and events the vigilers have “expressive conduct protected by the Square to put a halt to the pro-democracy encountered over the years, here are First Amendment.” movement, signs calling for "Wisdom and but a few. Honesty," justice and nuclear disarma- So there was a meeting between ment have stood every day and night in President Reagan and Department of Four presidents have, with varying front of the White House. Interior lawyer Richard Robbins, and Norman Mayer degrees of patience, reduced and en- According to National Park Service shortly thereafter regulations began In dured the vigilers' presence. figures, the signs have been seen by over appearing in the Code of Federal 1982, Those who share the materialistic three million people per year. Regulations, to: Norman values symbolized by the White House To those who maintain perhaps the (1) define “camping” as “using the Mayer sometimes view the vigil as "visual longest continuous vigil in human his- park for living accommodation brought blight." tory, the signs represent the ancient right purposes, regardless of the activity in signs and The Washington Times and Wash- -- Thomas Jefferson may have termed it which one might otherwise be literature to ington Post have called the vigilers "the duty" -- of people in a democracy to engaged,” thus negating the First the White nonviolently voice opinions on issues of Amendment and the Abney decision; House broad public concern, even if it means sidewalk with they must go to prison for their beliefs. the message that abolishing nuclear weapons must be everyone’s number one priority. Norman found (2) move the Thomas fasting, and "weirdos" and "lunatics" and the signs vigilers from the talked him into "eyesores," "gibberish" and "junk." White House eating by saying “As On the other extreme, there are those sidewalk to long as you keep who, valuing life, view the policies of On June 3, 1981 a pilgrim named Lafayette Park; your vigil, the truth can’t be the White House as slightly "mad," and Wm. (“Doubting”) Thomas sat down on ignored.” believe that the vigil reflects sanity. (3) reduce the number of signs that the White House sidewalk with a On December 8, 1982, Norman Some journalists have been more than an individual might have to two, and cardboard sign -”Wanted, Wisdom and Mayer staged a very scary tolerant, likening the vigilers to saints the size to 4' x 4' x 1/4", no higher Honesty”- to talk about truth, justice, demonstration at the Washington and prophets, and even beautiful! than six feet off the ground, and freedom, peace, and the threat of Monument, demanding that the news Actually the vigilers are just trying to requiring that someone always be nuclear war. media devote "90% of its time" to the practice what they preach. They still within three feet of the signs; and Concepcion Picciotto also came to subject of nuclear weapons or he have hope for humanity. They believe Lafayette Park and began working with would blow up the monument with his someday, if they hold on long enough, Thomas in 1981. van (which he claimed had 1,000 lbs people might wake up to their own of explosives, but in fact contained responsibilities and begin, at last, to act nothing but a battery-powered TV compassionately, wisely, honestly. For set). When he drove away after this, and for the children, they endure several hours of intense media harsh weather, the whims of police, and (4) reduce the amount of “property” scrutiny, sharpshooters killed him, abusive behavior by hostile bystanders. a person might have other than the for which they received medals. For they know they're not alone. signs to 3 cubic feet, a real hardship in Thomas erected a 12’ x 18’ cold and wet weather. reproduction of Norman’s flier in These Lafayette Park. regulations To the public, those who maintain the allowed police to vigil outside the White House arouse a harass, spectrum of perceptions. intimidate, and The 1991 and 1994 Berlitz Travel arrest all Guide for Washington, DC pictured the So, the vigil continues... working for demonstrators Continued vigil over the caption, "It's the right of peace, hoping for humanity. who came to next page Washington Peace Letter Special Edition • June 2006 • 1 to the legislators of the U.S. and and I for three months, charged 25 Years at the White House Gates then-USSR calling for a commitment with “camping.” Concepcion kept the vigil going while we were gone. 310-pound astro-geo-physicist from to abolish all nuclear weapons and ... continued from previous page New Mexico, came to the park to fast use the money instead for human for global nuclear disarmament, needs. Mitch Snyder and CCNV losing 180 pounds in the process. They He attracted a lot of people. circulated In 1981 and this 1984, the petition for Community for years after Creative Hyder was gone. Nonviolence When we immediately returned to (CCNV), led by Dr. Ted Taylor, who was designer of the park upon our release, the police Mitch Snyder, pitched tents in the biggest and smallest nuclear bombs backed off for a while. The Ragtag Lafayette Park as a statement about before he quit working for the Band drifted away by 1992. Sunrise homelessness. government and spent all his time now lives in France, Mojo in Texas, trying to eliminate nuclear weapons, In 1981 and Song in the Philippines. homeless Hyder brought with him his came to meet Dr. Hyder, and remained people scientific analysis of the dangers of a good friend of the vigil, and lobbied actually burying nuclear waste in salt caverns successfully on behalf of Peace Park slept in the (salt will melt under extreme heat, and Proposition One. (See next page.) rise to the surface). He also warned tents for a In 1985, we began calling Lafayette that Chernobyl cancers would be while. But in 1984, the Supreme Court Square “Peace Park.”. A sign on the killing people in increasing numbers ruled that the Park Service had a right corner read “Welcome to Peace Park,” to keep people from sleeping in tents. in decades to come. Although Concepcion and Thomas At first local newspapers refused had nothing resembling a tent, they to report about Hyder’s fast, some were arrested under the “camping” claiming, when called, that they regulation. weren’t going to be blackmailed into During the ‘80’s, Mitch Snyder’s writing a story every time someone The Ragtag Band fasts for the homeless attracted a stopped eating, but by spring 1987, great deal of media attention. As a so many international stories had During Dr. Hyder’s fast, some been written, even the Washington young musicians arrived separately, result, the Reagan administration and back when there was still traffic Post published an article. each staying to build signs and feed provided a multi-million-dollar on Pennsylvania Avenue, we could To the best of our knowledge, Dr. people, write and teach songs, and homeless shelter and medical clinic at hear the Trolley Tour drivers point Hyder is the only protester to ever have perform daily as the Ragtag Band. 2nd and D NW, and in 1984 voters out our signs to tourists as “Peace a sack full of mail hand-delivered to passed an initiative (#17) Park.” Lafayette Park by a White House guaranteeing homeless people a right During our time in jail, the City staffer, addressed by Japanese school to shelter. Paper and Washington Post both children to “Dr. Hyder, c/o The White Mitch and published articles and letters to the House.” everyone’s friend, editor referring to “Peace Park.” B Wardlaw, went Hyder was So the National Park Service on a cross- visited by announced they were going to remove country campaign Nobel Prize the beloved sculpture, “The in 1986 which winners, Awakening,” from Hains Point, and culminated educators, and build a “Peace Park.” It’s not hard to in“Hands Across America.” members of Congress, believe they hoped this would In June, 1990, however, the city won distract the public from the vigil. a referendum rescinding Initiative 17. The National Park Service never Mitch began a very debilitating open- did build their “Peace Park,” and “The ended fast, but this time the media Awakening” has been returned to weren’t interested in his fast or the Hains Point after a cleaning. Many plight of the homeless, and neither, people still call Lafayette Square apparently, were the voters.
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