{"id":43667,"date":"2014-10-30T14:48:32","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T18:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/giant-union-rat-has-first-amendment-rights-just-like-you\/"},"modified":"2014-10-30T14:48:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T18:48:32","slug":"giant-union-rat-has-first-amendment-rights-just-like-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/first-amendment-2\/giant-union-rat-has-first-amendment-rights-just-like-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Union Rat Has First Amendment Rights, Just Like You"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scabby, the giant inflatable union rat so near and dear to the hearts of working urbanites, won its First Amendment rights in a federal ruling Wednesday, after an asbestos contractor sued to have the rat declared a disruptive practice. <\/p>\n

[T]he defendants peaceful use of a stationary, inflatable rat to publicize a labor protest is protected by the First Amendment, ruled Judge Joseph Bianco. <\/p>\n

Scabby is often sighted before buildings under construction, where it serves as an unavoidable marker of contractors anti-union practices. Per Bloomberg Businessweeks Josh Eidelson the AFL-CIO decided to phase Scabby into retirement last year; one hopes it has a good pension. <\/p>\n

[h\/t Bloomberg Businessweek] [Image via RoySmith (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons] <\/p>\n

>> Follow Evan McMurry (@evanmcmurry) on Twitter <\/p>\n

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Scabby, the giant inflatable union rat so near and dear to the hearts of working urbanites, won its First Amendment rights in a federal ruling Wednesday, after an asbestos contractor sued to have the rat declared a disruptive practice. [T]he defendants peaceful use of a stationary, inflatable rat to publicize a labor protest is protected by the First Amendment, ruled Judge Joseph Bianco. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94877],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-amendment-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}