12 Aug Austin Environmentalist Arrested while Saying No to Plastic Pollution
Austin environmentalist arrested at UT on Monday during Obama visit
Asher Price’s blog gets the story right. Here’s an excerpt:
Robin Schneider, executive director of Texas Campaign for the Environment, was arrested on Monday on University of Texas campus.
UT police charged her with criminal trespass, a misdemeanor.
Schneider says she was on campus to collect signatures for an open letter to UT President Bill Powers that she planned to place as an advertisement in The Daily Texan. The letter would announce opposition to UT’s new water bottle, called H2Orange, which is a scale-model replica of the UT Tower.
She said she was told only UT faculty, staff and students could solicit on campus. She says that when she approached Gregory Gym to look for media to draw attention to the fact that she was being prevented from gathering signatures, a UT police officer issued her a warning that she would be charged with criminal trespass if she continued trying to gather signatures. At that point, she says, she decided to try to collect more signatures — knowing that she would be arrested.
“UT should not be off limits for free speech,” she told me. “Constitutional liberties shouldn’t end at Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. It’s such an irony that they were escorting us to MLK Boulevard.”
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Read Texas Campaign for the Environment’s Press Release on Monday’s Arrest here:
http://www.texasenvironment.
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