At a time when Trump and the far right are attacking dissent and criminalizing protest across the country, NYC should be protecting our rights—not rolling them back. But the City Council just passed two "buzzer zone" bills that empower the NYPD to restrict protest outside houses of worship and educational facilities. But we still have a chance to defeat the bill targeting educational facilities.
Intro 175-B would let the NYPD set up “police perimeters” around schools and broadly defined “educational” sites—giving them more sweeping power to crack down on protests, limit gatherings, and expand police presence.
That’s not safety. That’s censorship.
We know how this plays out: more discretion for NYPD, less space for New Yorkers to speak out—especially for Black, Brown, immigrant, LGBTQ people, Muslim, Jewish, and young people.
Silencing protest doesn’t make us safer.
It makes it harder to hold power accountable and organize in moments when resistance matters most.
Now the fight isn’t over:
🚫 We need Mayor Mamdani to veto Int-0175B
🚫 And we need City Council Members to sustain that veto and defeat the bill