Subject: Protests and Demonstrations

• Code Pink

  January 1, 2009

• Gustavo Ally? Gustavo Allah? Gustavo Ay-yay?

  Someone from OC Weekly is going to be on the KTLA Morning News in a few seconds. But based on how the anchors were mangling his name during their Mexican student protest stories, it's Gustavo Ari-, Allay-, Ali- or Ely-ano, -uno, -eenie, -meenie, -mano. Whoever the hell he is, he writes Ask-A-Mexican. Or is it Mess-i-can?

  March 28, 2006

• Seen in SanTana

  Here's a Tenaya Hills photo from yesterday's protests in the streets of Santa Ana... ... and right outside our World HQ—how convenient! For more coverage, check out Thursday's print edition (and our website) for contributions from Hills, Gustavo Arellano and Rebecca "Commie Girl" Schoenkopf.

  May 2, 2006

• Over Their Heads

  I was at Fascist Island for this morning's MoveOn.organized protest against John Campbell (R-Irvine Company), and I noticed a sign hanging high above the Atrium Court's lower parking lot. DE SIGN AIN'T WITHIN REACH I giggled all morning. Anyone else know ridiculous signage in and around Orange County?

  May 11, 2006

• (Don't) Protest Jim Gilchrist Tonight at Chapman!

  Sept. 15-Oct. 15 is Latino Heritage Month in the United States, so what better way to celebrate their heritage to America than invite Mr. Minuteman himself to speak during college festivities? Thus goes Chapman University's logic (full disclosure: I'm an alumn and got kicked off the campus), and so Jim Gilchrist will speak tonight at Beckhman Hall 404 at 7pm. Some Chicano activists plan to protest the event, but our advice: let the man speak and bury himself with whispers of Aztlán and th

  October 2, 2006

• 'D-port! D-port! D-port!'

  Illegal immigrants, legal immigrants, minutemen, and anarchist ninjas all gathered together, and the American flag was more popular than on the Fourth of July. The May Day rally and march in downtown Santa Ana drew a crowd of between 1,000 and 3,000 people, according to a police estimate. Cops on horses, motorcycles and in loud, low-flying helicopters looked to pounce on troublemakers. Protesters want more rights for immigrants from Mexico. From the signs waved by most of the demonstrators, dr

  May 1, 2007

• Conviction Overturned for OC's Most Famous Anarchist

  Three years ago, Orange County's most famous anarchist pleaded no contest to several felonies relating to his alleged attempt to blow up La Habra's Moose Lodge in 2002. On Wednesday, the California Supreme Court overturned Matthew Gordon "Rampage" Lamont's conviction, arguing that police violated Lamont's civil rights when they searched his car on April 20 of that year. If April 20 sounds like a familiar anniversary, it is, although not in a good way. That night at the Moose Lodge, members of

  September 28, 2007

• You can't protest us; we're already protesting you!

  On Saturday, OC Weekly staff writer Luke Y. Thompson and myself took to the streets to see what was going on in Anaheim as a left-wing group known as the A.N.S.W.E.R. coalition and put together a fairly huge "Anti-Zionism" protest with only a few days notice. Fairly predictably, a smaller scale "Pro-Zionism" anti-protest protest set up shop across the street. The spectacle amounted to two groups of people, separated by six lanes of Saturday traffic, shouting at each other from opposite sides of

  January 28, 2008

• Live Review: Ludacris on 02/23

  Review, video and photos by Patrick Chavis. Ludacris, Pacific Division Walter Pyramid, Cal State University Long Beach February 23, 2008 A night of protests, hos and intellectual conversation in the LBC: isn’t that what hip-hop’s all about? The opening act—Pacific Division from Palmdale, California—have created a large MySpace buzz. The hip-hop trio were humble and when they weren’t talking about music, they talked about their old jobs working to make it big in a town they wanted

  February 24, 2008

• Anti-Commie Agitator Arrested for Assault

  Bolsavik, the witty all-Viet-all-the-time blog, is reporting that Trong Doan (pictured), an anti-communist protester recently profiled by OC Weekly, has just been arrested for assault. Bolsavik is the latest endeavor by Hao-Nhien Vu, who lost his job at Nguoi Viet Daily News when anti-communists boycotted the paper over a photograph they didn't like. One of those protesters who cost Vu his job is Trong Doan. According to a Westminster Police Department press release, police arrested Doan yeste

  April 4, 2008

• Yearlong Viet Weekly Boycott Ends

  Our good friend Hao-Nhien Vu, a.k.a. the Bolsavik, the ex-Nguoi Viet Daily News managing editor who lost his job thanks to anti-commie protests, has another big scoop on his blog today. Apparently, protesters who have been demonstrating outside the Historic Main Street offices of Viet Weekly for the past year have taken their miniature South Vietnamese flags, blaring martial music and desecrated Ho Chi Minh doll and gone home. I wrote about the protests last month and sort of predicted this mi

  June 18, 2008

• Why I Hate Ho Chi Minh

  February 25, 1999

• Off Tran's Case

  May 20, 1999

• The Few, the Proud, the Spies

  July 15, 1999

• Quiet Riot

  March 16, 2000

• Fox Hunt

  April 5, 2001

• Who You Calling Ho

  September 8, 2005

• Protesters Without Borders

  Capitalizing on the energy of the weekend’s marriage inequality protests (including Friday's march in Long Beach), Join the Impact, a blog designed to promote equal marriage rights for all Americans, is organizing a national protest on Saturday November 15. All supporters are asked to meet on the steps of your City Hall at 10:30 a.m. PST/1:30 p.m. EST. "Our community will take to the streets and speak out against Proposition 8 and all of the other pro-equality losses that [the LGBT community

  November 10, 2008

• Little Gaza Protest: the More Things Don't Change

  Here is a photo from the protest at the "Little Gaza" area of Brookhurst Street over Israel's violent actions against Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip.But here's the twist: photographer S. Twair did not snap the shot during Sunday's demonstration, which drew about 200 people over four hours protesting Israel's attack on Hamas-ruled Gaza, where at least 345 people have been killed and more than 1,500 have been injured during three days of Israeli air assaults. No, this photo is almost a ye

  December 29, 2008

• [Election 2008] Ron Kovic's War on War

  October 23, 2008

• The Anti-Commie Protests Against Viet Weekly and Nguoi Viet Limp Along in Little Saigon

  May 22, 2008

• How the Minutemen Drove Mobile Mexican Consulates Out of the Capistrano Unified School District

  March 6, 2008

• Little Saigon’s Nguoi Viet Daily News Earns Anti-Commie Wrath—Again

  February 28, 2008

• Waiting With Red-baited Breath

  Little Saigon’s latest wave of anti-communist fervor spreads beyond Viet Weekly

  August 23, 2007

• Red Scare in Little Saigon

  Le Vu's Viet Weekly newspaper endures OC's latest anti-communist witch-hunt
  

  August 16, 2007

• Razin' La Raza

  January 19, 2006

• !Viva el Trabajador!

  August 4, 2005

• THE RIGHT IS RIGHT

  Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist has it all figured outexcept for one little thing

  June 2, 2005

• Diary of a Mad County

  December 2, 2004

• Apples and Oranges

  Pringle to convention protesters: Bring it on

  September 23, 2004

• Is There Something Wrong With These People?

  September 19, 2002

• Political Theater

  September 5, 2002

• Food Fighter

  June 13, 2002

• I Witness

  May 30, 2002

• Theres a Specter Haunting Garden Grove

  May 9, 2002

• Black and Blue and Orange

  June 7, 2001

• How Not to Smash Global Capitalism

  May 24, 2001

• I Didnt Do It

  May 3, 2001

• Working for Beans

  June 1, 2000

• Gypsies, Tramps and Bigots

  March 30, 2000

• Good Times

  February 3, 2000

• Hearts and Blinders

  May 6, 1999

• Rat Boy Slim

  April 1, 1999

• Scars and Stripes

  March 11, 1999

• Jury to Protesters: The War's Over. Now Go Home!

  Do you remember the exciting drama unfolded in the summer of 2007, when a small group of anti-communist protesters began to make life a living hell for the publishers of two Little Saigon newspapers, Viet Weekly and Nguoi Viet Daily News? No? What, did the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the election of Barack Obama, and the world economic cataclysm distract you from this important controversy? If so, you could be forgiven for forgetting the mortal sins committed by the two media outlets accused o

  May 27, 2009

• Jury to Little Saigon Protesters: The War's Over. Now Go Home!

  Do you remember the exciting drama that unfolded in the summer of 2007, when a small group of anti-communist protesters began to make life a living hell for the publishers of two Little Saigon newspapers, Viet Weekly and Nguoi Viet Daily News? No? What, did the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the election of Barack Obama, and the world economic cataclysm distract you from this important controversy? If so, you could be forgiven for forgetting the mortal sins committed by the two media outlets accu

  May 27, 2009

• Make Sure Dana Rohrabacher Never Accepts Social Security

  Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Wacko Heights) hasn't spoken to the Weekly since--take your pick--Moxley exposed him as a Taliban sympathizer or we published a photo of him in mujahideen garb (or was it the one where he wore an Uncle Sam hat and glassy, besotted eyes?). So can someone out there ask Dana to make sure he never, ever uses a penny of Social Security money lest he be proven a hypocrite again?Let me explain. A source who knows my love of unofficial Orange County history forwarded me a

  June 9, 2009

• Sanchez Navigates I've-Got-Mines to Get to Newport Beach Cash

  Sanchez: Slummin'.Following the lead of politicians of every stripe, Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove) swooped down on GOP-friendly Newport Beach Tuesday morning to blab, push cold eggs around her plate and, most importantly, pick up hard campaign cash at the Balboa Bay Club. Junkets in Nouveau Riche generally do not draw protesters because the tony club is too far from their homes, parking is a bitch down there and attendance at jobs/bail heari

  August 4, 2009

• Healthcare Workers to Protest Job Cuts at Kaiser Orange County

  Coming to Anaheim Thursday.​Kaiser Permanente employees will picket outside the Kaiser Orange County facility Thursday to protest the health behemoth's plans to slash 1,350 jobs in coming months.Kaiser workers in purple shirts are scheduled to chant, carry signs and speak with patients about the effects of job cuts on patient care from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at 411 North Lakeview Ave., Anaheim. The picketing is part of five weeks of events held by SEIU-UHW members, who have scheduled simultan

  September 30, 2009

• Official Support by Day and Threatened Arrest by Night for Cal State Fullerton Protesters

  As reported by the student Daily Titan coverage here and here, administrators seemed to be behind protests against budget cuts, tuition hikes and employee furloughs as they sprawled across Cal State Fullerton much of Tuesday's daylight hours.But, as evidenced in another Daily Titan story here, the official kumbayas dissipated by that evening, when about 40 students staging a Pollak Library "sit-in" were threatened with arrest by campus security.

  September 30, 2009