lbo-talk-digest V1 #3554

[Leslilake1 at aol.com]

I thought there was a supreme court case which upheld the right to gather 
signatures or perform some kind of political activities in malls - citation 
something like "plumfield v...." or something?

LJ

what i'm playing on here is the fact that they have created a space for 
people to lounge around and don't typically object to "mall walkers" and 
other sorts of upstanding citizens milling around not necessarily 
shopping.  they flip if you try to use the public space for any sort of 
leaf letting or political protest or whathaveyou.  you can do that on a 
main street in Podunk USA more often than not.  not in a mall because it's 
all privately owned and they've aggressively enforced the deterioration of 
the public sphere--what little we had of it.