Alamo Rising

The City of San Antonio and its permits department has been giving us the run around on confirming the event location for months now. With initial quotes of $300 for the permit and being ensured that all was well, San Antonio then decided to up the costs and then demand mandatory purchases that they approved of for us to hold our rally on October 10. These mandatory costs for our right to free speech on a public location have increased to nearly $10,000. Included in this was costs to pay law enforcement and use of their designated barricade company.

The city did not give the option to use other companies that could be cheaper or more cost effective. Therefore the sanctuary city of San Antonio has done its best to make sure that this rally did not occur. Included in their stonewalling was setting up meetings for a walk-through of the location - which our representative drove 4 hours one way to meet with them only to have them not show up.

This is not the first time that San Antonio has done this to a group. In cases of issues that the city agrees with, such as diversity type rallies, they have waived all such fees. With this as a fact Voice of the People USA is pursuing a lawsuit against the City of San Antonio for violations of first amendment rights under the Constitution of the United States.

With the government in San Antonio obstructing rather than simply doing their job, we have decided to cancel this event for now rather than allow them to push us to the last day and not allow the rally to occur as intended.

We will have more information in the future explaining how this all occurred so that everyone will know the truth.

We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may have caused you and it has been hard, but logical, to have come to this decision.