Protests and Demonstrations

Long Beach City College Students to Protest Program Discontinuance and Crappy Administration on May Day

May Day comes at the perfect time as Long Beach City College's administration is crumbling under its own ego. Last week, student trustee Jason Troia anhiliated LBCC's Board of Trustees for their incredibly shady behavior surrounding the school's program discontinuence. Tomorrow, Troia, LBCC students ... More >>

United Survivors of Anaheim March on Anna Drive

With storm clouds looming overhead, about fifty people gathered at the corner of Anna Drive and La Palma Avenue in Anaheim for a rally and march in memory of Manuel Diaz on Sunday. It was the latest action marking a shift in strategy for family members and activists organizing in the wake of the cit ... More >>

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Libyan Americans Mourn "Friend" Ambassador Christopher Stevens in Tustin Tonight

Local Libyan Americans welcome others to join them tonight at a candlelight vigil in Tustin to mourn the loss of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other members of the American diplomatic corps in Libya."The Libyan American Association of Southern California condemns the cowardly and ... More >>

Occupy OC to Celebrate One-Year Anniversary of Wall Street Occupation in Anaheim

Occupy Orange County is planning a Rally for Justice event for Saturday in Pearson Park in Anaheim, celebrating of the upcoming one-year anniversary since protesters took over Zuccotti Park in New York City. Although the occupation of Zuccotti Park lasted for a mere eight weeks, and the subsequ ... More >>

Chick-fil-A: "Tastes like Hate" Vandalism Hits SoCal Restaurant

Kevin Lara/OC WeeklyHours before a scheduled nationwide, same sex "kiss in" to protest the owner of Chick-fil-A's anti-gay marriage stance, police are investigating vandalism committed at a Torrance franchise of the fast food restaurant.Overnight someone committed a misdemeanor crime by spray p ... More >>

[UPDATED: VIDEO OF ARRESTS] Were Anaheim Protesters Targeted by Paramilitary Police?

[Update at end] ORIGINAL POST, JULY 30, 4:00 P.M.:After demonstrations in front of the Anaheim Police Department yesterday, at least four protesters were reportedly snatched up by police while marching to a vigil in the Anna Drive neighborhood honoring Manuel Diaz around 6 p.m. Sunday night.&nb ... More >>

Anaheim Police Prepare for Protests Today With Public Displays of Arsenal--UH OH...

Click here for our Anaheim police shooting archivesEmails, tweets, and texts since Friday have been alerting me about how the Anaheim Police Department plan to confront the thousands of protestors expected to march today against police brutality and Anaheim City Council incompetence: with a armed fo ... More >>

Dispatch from Anaheim's Fourth Night of Rage

Click here for our Anaheim police shooting archivesLast night's riots, which erupted around Anaheim Boulevard and Broadway, saw protesters, enraged by the recent police-involved shootings of two residents, smashing windows, setting structural fires and throwing bottles and other objects at cops. The ... More >>

The Billionaires' Club Gets a Visit From Mitt Romney

Dropping by for campaign funds, the Republican candidate inspires equal loathing from Occupiers and Tea Partiers

Cal State Students Protest Fee Hikes With A Hunger Strike

Forget Top Ramen. That was back in the good ol' days.Now Cal State University students are protesting tuition increases, budgets cuts and administrator pay hikes (and fancy pads) by not eating at all. Members of the activist group Students for Quality Education are on a hunger strike, declaring that ... More >>

Hazem Chehabi Is Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad's Man in OC

The Newport Beach doctor is a UC Irvine philanthropist, Syria's honorary consul general—and the target of activists who call him an apologist for a brutal regime

Santa Ana Occupier to Take Chances with Judge

​When Occupy Santa Ana kicked off its long-term protest last October, day one ended with four activists being arrested for allegedly violating the city's no-camping ordinance. Three of those four have since accepted reduced charges from the City Attorney. But one Occupier, 24-year-old Sam Are ... More >>

Occupy Protest to be Held on UC Irvine Campus

​It looks like UC Irvine students are going to try their hand at the Occupy game once again with another protest. The Irvine contingent of Occupy Orange County has been Tweeting support  for the event, which is set to take place Wednesday at 11 a.m. on Ring Road, the main drag throu ... More >>

New (Fake) Ben & Jerry's Flavor: OccuPie Wall Street

Tauntr.comSpeaking of fake Ben & Jerry's flavors, this one is 99 percent awesome. Illustrator John Defreest created the conceptual OccuPie Wall Street, described as "apple pie ice cream with some other good stuff in there, we think. We're not really sure. No one can explain it to us."  ... More >>

[UDATED: Irvine Police Squelch Attempts at Occupation] Corporate Abuses Prompt Large Irvine Rally

UPDATE OCT. 17, 4:45 p.m.:Brandon Ferguson​ Despite the fact that Irvine Police have told Occupy Orange County protesters they cannot camp in the city, the group seems determined to stay put. Several tents have been set up on the lawn located at the intersection of Alton Parkway and Harvard A ... More >>

Occupy Long Beach Protesters Arrested Yesterday for Camping

Occupy Long Beach via Facebook​Looks like Orange County isn't the only local Occupy group not getting love from the police. Much like activists attempting to camp out in Irvine this weekend, Long Beach protesters in downtown's Lincoln Park got the bums' rush. A press release issued by the LBP ... More >>

Who's Gagging Whom In the Irvine 11 Case?

The First Amendment, academic freedom and Islamophobia collide in an OC courtroom

Avalon Bar Hosts Anti-Sobriety Protest Tonight

Let's toast to anti-sobriety!​It's about time someone stood up to the powers that be and demanded change. And I'm not talking about that sort of change that gets thrown on campaign posters only to be forgotten once elections are finished. I'm talking real change, the sort that requires protests to ... More >>

Mickey and Minnie Mouse arrested at Walt Disney Studios

​Yes, I know that reads like a headline from The Onion, but this is the real deal, folks.According to police reports, two protesters were arrested at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank yesterday morning after chaining themselves to the front gate. Oh, and they were wearing Mickey and Minnie Mouse ... More >>

[UPDATE: OC Democrats Blast Pauly] Video Captures Protesters, Politicians Berating Muslims at Yorba Linda Charity Function

​UPDATE, MARCH 25, 4:40 P.M.: The Democratic Party of Orange County has weighed in on Villa Park City Councilwoman's Deborah Pauly's harsh remarks at an anti-Muslim rally in Yorba Linda last month. (Welcome to the party, folks!)As you might expect from a party philosophically opposite of a teabagg ... More >>

Brown University to Stop Investing in HEI Hotels, Owner of Hilton Long Beach and Operator of Embassy Suites Irvine

​Brown University will stop investing in HEI Hotels & Resorts, a hotel investment company that's been accused of violating workers' rights. Two properties involved in the labor battle include the HEI-owned Long Beach Hilton, whose workers claimed they were denied their 10-minute breaks require ... More >>

Anti-Foie Gras Activists to Picket Brasserie Pascal Tonight

​The man above is Orange County's master of French food, Pascal Olhats (and the man who shot the photo is Jonathan Ho). Foie gras is a staple of French cuisine, and his Valentine's Day menu for Brasserie Pascal advertised a foie gras terrine and a Cornish game hen with a foie gras demi-glaze sauce ... More >>

Egyptian Rebellion Inspires Hip-Hop Solidarity Song

​ Tens of thousands of Egyptian workers left work on strike today, bolstering the 16th day of protests against the regime of Hosni Mubarak and pressing for the president's immediate resignation. North American hip-hop artists, inspired by the persistence of the people in Cairo's Tahrir Square, hav ... More >>

Anti-Gay Fred Phelps Is A No-Show But Police Helicopters Nevertheless Go Into Frenzy

Helicopter crew: We want to feel important​The OC Register reported tonight that "hundreds" of protesters gathered in Santa Ana tonight to demonstrate against anti-gay bigots who'd claimed they would appear from Kansas in opposition to a play about the brutal murder of a Wyoming gay man, Matthew S ... More >>

'Fiasco Friday' Turns into Victory March as 'Lasers' Gets a Release Date!

www.lupefiasco.com​A week before a legion of Lupe Fiasco loyalists planned to descend on Atlantic Records in protest, the rapper finally reached an agreement with his label on a release date for his third album, Lasers. The long-completed and long-awaited project from the Grammy-award winning rap ... More >>

SJC Americans: OC's Latest Hate Group!

Another set of OCers makes Henry W. Head proud...​I don't really pay much attention to San Juan Capistrano because that's more Spencer's terrain, but one facet of the town that previously drew my  interest was some group calling themselves the SJC Americans. Clockwork Coker previously wrote a ... More >>

Protest Outside Angels Stadium Before Tuesday's All-Star Game Seeks to Move Next Year's All-Star Game from Mexi-Hating Arizona

​The sporting eyes of America will focus on Anaheim this Tuesday for the baseball All-Star Game--so what better time to schedule a protest against Arizona's retrograde, anti-Mexican, pro-Arpayaso policies than just before the game?A Facebook page called "Move the 2011 All Star Game out of Arizona" ... More >>

PHOTOS: Seize BP Protest at the Aquarium of the Pacific

Christopher Victorio​So the turn-out wasn't so hot, but a protest against BP took place this afternoon in Long Beach at the Aquarium of the Pacific. It was all a part of the Seize BP Campaign's National Days of Action--similar demonstrations took place in more than 50 cities across the country. Th ... More >>

Seize BP Sets Sights on Shamed Oil Company and Long Beach Aquarium

​The national Seize BP Campaign--it has organized demonstrations against British Petroleum through Thursday in more than 50 cities across the country--is coming to Long Beach Wednesday to protest the shamed oil company and a new target: Aquarium of the Pacific."The Aquarium, which claims its missi ... More >>

Arpaio Raises Howls Inside, Heckles Outside Bill Hunt for Sheriff Dinner

​I went to a Bill Hunt for Sheriff fund-raiser tonight, and a Joe Arpaio Dinner Show broke out.

Flags at Local Iran Street Protest Spark Debate

Photos by Christopher VictorioThe controversial flag flies in Irvine Wednesday.Alexandra Zavis and Paloma Esquivel blog in the LA Times that the appearance of the pre-Islamic Revolution Iranian flag at U.S. rallies "is stirring tension between Iranian expatriates who come out to express solidarity w ... More >>

Slideshows: The Faint and Ladytron at the Grove of Anaheim, Protest the Hero at Chain Reaction

How was your weekend? Really? To shreds, you say? Well, us, we took in some shows, like the Faint (from Omaha!) and Ladytron (from Britain!) at the Grove of Anaheim on Saturday night (read Ned Raggett's interview with Ladytron here) and Canadian prog metal dudes Protest the Hero at Chain Reaction on ... More >>

Obama Town Hall Protesters Get Vlogged

Former Weekly managing editor Rich Kane turns vlogger as he hits the mean streets of Costa Mesa to capture protesters outside President Obama's town hall at the Orange County Fairgrounds on Wednesday.Among the pissed-off masses Rich encounters is Barbara Coe of the Huntington Beach-based California ... More >>

A Fortuitously Timed Tax-Denying Conference Comes To Our Tax-Hating County

Man met bril / Flickr / Creative CommonsSpotted on the commute to Weekly world headquarters today: a brown Dodge pickup whose back window read, in blue electricians-tape lettering, "TAX REVOLT!" Spotted on Red County and Orange Juice Blog: recall fever against all the Republicans who supported the s ... More >>

Protest Prop 8 tonight and Sunday

Is your activist streak feeling unloved after watching footage of yesterday's protests in LA against the passage of Proposition 8? Well, here's your chance to vent (peacefully, people, peacefully...). Tonight (Friday), the Long Beach Gay & Lesbian Center is organizing a protest march down Broadway, ... More >>

Go Help the Saints this Weekend

Since we're all staycationing this Labor Day weekend, make yourself useful and show up to Our Lady of the Pillar Catholic Church in SanTana. That's where SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) members will be leafleting outside from 9 a.m. through 11 p.m. to protest the kid's-glove trea ... More >>

May Day rally not so big this year

Santa Ana police spokesman Jose Gonzales says a multi-police agency force of about 185 officers, some just on standby, were on duty to keep the peace as an expected 6,000 people were to march for immigrant rights downtown. But when the event actually went down, there were nearly as many cops and m ... More >>

Tony Rackauckas Hunting Commies in Little Saigon?

The Weekly never passes up on an opportunity to make fun of our favorite local lawman—favorite, now that Sheriff Mike Carona's out of the picture, that is—Tony Rackauckas. So when we saw this item on the fiesty and irreverent Bolsavik blog by ex-Nguoi Viet Daily News managing editor Hao-Nhien Vu ... More >>

Friday's Headlines

Anger in the air:Vietnamese-Americans are expected to gather in Dana Point tonight to protest the presence of Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet - who many have human rights and religious freedom questions for. Desegregation entry "festive" after all: Earlier in the week, we noted that a Huntin ... More >>

Foxes, Henhouses, and the Fashion Police

Just like breaking a leg can take your mind off a toothache, the major traumas the Bush administration has inflicted on the body politic make it easy to forget the lesser damage it's doing.  Or, as Ruth Marcus puts in her column in today's Washington Post, "The tornado of disastrous headlines - ... More >>

Ending War 101

UCI profs book could be the real roadmap to peace

Here Come the Mexican Walk-outs!

Am sure you know about the mass immigrant rallies that bloomed across the country this past week. Now, the marchers visit Garden Grove. Just got word that high school students are walking out, and that cops are handing out tickets to jaywalkers--we're looking at you, Officer J.S. Perkins! How long b ... More >>

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