{"id":1118,"date":"2020-08-29T00:30:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T00:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2025-09-29T13:50:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:50:03","slug":"ossining-black-lives-matter-rally-scheduled-for-today-is-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1118","title":{"rendered":"Ossining Black Lives Matter Rally scheduled for today is cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sorry but this seems to be a pretty thin reason to cancel. They should allow it.<\/p>\n

Black Lives Matter Rally Canceled In Ossining. The rally will not happen Saturday as the community grapples with the repercussions of the controversial concert re-billed as a protest.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Rally organizers Douglas Oliver and Spencer Thomas said on Facebook that their event had been canceled by town authorities over concerns with the state's pandemic guidelines limiting the size of gatherings. Ossining town officials said the organizers had taken the initiative to postpone it.<\/p>\n

Town officials said in a letter to residents that given the controversial concert<\/a> dubbed a protest, "they have difficult decisions to make regarding use of our public spaces."<\/p>\n

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Concert promoter Brian Johnson went ahead Aug. 22 despite being denied a permit, bringing a generator to the stage since police had turned the electricity off. About 250 people attended the concert and Johnson complained that police were stifling free speech. SEE: Ossining Man Who Held Illegal Concert Faces Fine<\/a><\/p>\n

Black Lives Matter rally organizers Spencer Thomas and Douglas Oliver urged their supporters to be active. "Please encourage everyone to register to vote, support the mission of the NAACP, and to also support and value our Black Community, which will continue to peacefully challenge injustice and fight for equality in this country."<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Sorry but this seems to be a pretty thin reason to cancel. They should allow it. Black Lives Matter Rally Canceled In Ossining. The rally will not happen Saturday as the community grapples with the repercussions of the controversial concert re-billed as a protest. Rally organizers Douglas Oliver and Spencer Thomas said on Facebook that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7524,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions\/7524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}