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'Lady Liberty' Patricia Okoumou Will Not Go to Prison for July 4th Protest

A federal judge ruled Patricia Okoumou, known around the world as the “Statue of Liberty Climber,” will not spend any time in jail for her bold July 4 protest. Okoumou climbed the Statue of Liberty last year to draw attention to inhumane U.S. immigration policies. At the time, the Department of Homeland Security’s practice of…

By

Anne Branigin

Published

March 19, 2019
News

Patricia Okoumou Knows She Could Have Died During her Statue of Liberty Protest; She Did it Anyway

On July 4, 2018, amid the cursory cookouts, cheap beer and sunburns, Patricia Okoumou climbed the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island, N.Y., to protest the treatment of immigrant children by the Trump administration. The 44-year-old personal trainer, herself an immigrant from the Congo, had taken part in a protest earlier that day with Rise…

By

Anne Branigin

Published

July 9, 2018