LIBERTY STATE PARK PRESIDENTS DAY GROUP PHOTO PROTEST
Hosted by Friends of Liberty State Park by and NY/NJ Baykeeper

Stand with fellow park supporters of all ages in a group photo for LSP's future with Lady Liberty in the background. Please come out to make a solidarity statement to Governor Christie - by marking Presidents Day by putting democracy into action to protest Governor Christie's proposals to commercialize and privatize LSP. All ages are welcomed on this national holiday to stand up for LSP, our national treasure open space park behind our nation's greatest symbol of democracy and freedom.

When: Monday, February 15th - 1pm 
Where: LSP's South Overlook Lawn in LSP's SE corner (in area past the Flag Plaza)
For more information, please contact The Coalition to Save LSP - Greg Remaud, Deputy Director, NY/NJ Baykeeper at 732-888-9870x3 or greg@nynjbaykeeper.org or Sam Pesin, president of Friends of LSP at 201-341-7900 (for texting) or pesinliberty@earthlink.net

Please feel free to bring your homemade signs of any size, with messages such as Free and Green, No LSP Commercialization, No LSP Privatization, LSP - For all the People or whatever you want to write or illustrate on your signs - and we'll also have signs for people to use.

GROUP PHOTO Logistics -  Please try to arrive by 12:50 (park in lot at SE corner of park - GPS is 200 Morris Pesin Drive).Please walk around the Visitors Center/park administration building or through its "breezeway (where the bathrooms also are) to find us in the lawn in the area just past the Flag Plaza (which usually has one flag up in wintertime). We'll start organizing the arrangement of supporters (with children in the front or sides) and hopefully, the photo will be taken by 1:15. Hopefully a couple of media photographers will be present, and after the GROUP PHOTO, we welcome everyone to take your own photos to spread the message on social media. The Coalition's petition is at www.savelsp.org We will have cookies and warm drinks available afterward. Children’s playground is nearby at the picnic area.

Lady Liberty's message to LSP supporters - "Behind every great park is you". (borrowed from the National Parks Foundation)

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
President Abraham Lincoln

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
President George Washington