Save Boston Subway Artists

To:  Governor Mitt Romney, Secretary and MBTA Chairman Daniel A. Grabauskas, and MBTA General Manager Michael H. Mulhern

Performances on subway platforms are an important cultural asset to the MBTA and the community
and are an expression of constitutional First Amendment Rights.

On December 1st, without due process or public comment, the MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority) will put into effect discriminatory and unreasonable new restrictions on subway performers.

These new regulations, which overturn an 18-year working agreement between artists and the MBTA, will:

Ban all, even modest, amplification

Greatly limit locations and hours of performance

Totally eliminate certain types of instruments

We, the undersigned, support the tradition of diverse artistic expression in the subway. The MBTA is obligated to include community input on decisions affecting performances. We petition the MBTA to rescind their new policy and allow the artists to continue to perform.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

The Save Boston Subway Artists Petition to Governor Mitt Romney, Secretary and MBTA Chairman Daniel A. Grabauskas, and MBTA General Manager Michael H. Mulhern was created by Street Arts and Busker Advocates, PO Box 112, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130. Tel: 617-522-3407 and written by David Fox (davidfox2003@hotmail.com).  This petition is hosted here at www.PetitionOnline.com as a public service. There is no endorsement of this petition, express or implied, by Artifice, Inc. or our sponsors. For technical support please use our simple Petition Help form.