As a college student in Alabama in the 1960's I marched in Selma, Montgomery, and Birmingham. Since then I have marched an supported those who marched in all sorts of demonstrations.
As far as I know, you don't have to have a ticket to get into the Kennedy Center but you do have to have tickets to get into a performance.
So -- what would happen in, say, March, if one casual Saturday or Sunday afternoon hundreds of "tourists" started showing up -- in small groups of 2, 3, 4 ,6 ,7 -- each with a backpack or tote bag (with bottled water and sandwiches) and once inside EVERYONE SITS DOWN AND REFUSES TO LEAVE. Hundreds more could sit on the stairs, occupy the lawn, block the garage entrances and refuse to move.
We were told when marching in Alabama to "go limp." Don't move, just lie down and go limp. Make them pick you up. I know from experience it takes four cops to move one person.
No doubt the demonstrators would be removed by DC police or National Guard.
But what it if kept up? Crowds showing up every day, surround the place, allow no vehicles to enter . . . .
Probably not happen but surely someone here on DU has the contacts to make this happen.
We are in our 80s, we live 45 minutes out of DC, our daughter lives on Capitol Hill, we can bunk with her -- she's a high-powered DC attorney so she can get a lot of us out of jail.
Just sayin'.
Or what if a few old, grey-haired couples pulled this stunt? Would hundreds or thousands take the hint and descend on the Kennedy Center an save the place?
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