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Demonstrations Spread from Egypt To Wisconsin – Teachers Go on Strike, Guard Called In

February 16, 2011 by Doug Porter
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Fifteen thousand Wisconsin workers and their supporters rallied at the state capitol in Madison on Tuesday to protest legislation aimed at both public employee and private sector union activity.  Teamsters, teachers, university workers, nurses, high school students, and state workers of all kinds flooded the streets and the capitol grounds. The crowd cheered as firefighters […]

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San Diegans Join Protest Against Koch Brothers at Rancho Mirage

January 31, 2011 by Frank Gormlie
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As your intrepid OB Rag reporters drove into the mall parking lot – having just driven up from San Diego, the main thing we saw was all the cops and sheriffs moving about, getting coffee, getting into position, milling about. As we parked and sought relief in the caverns of the Rancho Mirage mall, we could also see that there were many more demonstrators than mall customers roaming about.

A little before 1pm, we ambled over to the rally spot …

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Frank, Doug and Patty are off to Palms Springs

January 30, 2011 by Patty Jones
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UPDATE: We have returned, and will be filing full reports and media for the morrow. In the meantime we can confirm that 25 were peacefully arrested in a civil disobedience action, with a crowd close to 2,000.  Over a dozen buses brought people to the rally spot in Rancho Mirage from all over Southern California. […]

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Jesus Comes To Comic-Con, A Photo Gallery

July 23, 2010 by Doug Porter
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The kids at Comic-Con organized a spontaneous counter-demonstration in response to the pickets from the Kansas based hate group today. Asked for a comment about the signs carried by the members of the Westboro Baptist Church, Jesus said, “Boy, those people have issues!”.

All photos by Doug Porter

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Protest At Dog Beach Aimed At NFL’s Animal Cruelty Policy

November 16, 2009 by Doug Porter
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by Doug Porter

Philadelphia Eagles third string quarterback Michael Vick has drawn protests from animal rights groups around the country this fall, and San Diego was no exception. Members of the San Rafael-based In Defense of Animals staged a small demonstration at Dog Beach on Sunday and police radio reports from Qualcomm Stadium indicated that protesters were picketing entrances to the Chargers-Eagles match up on Sunday.

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Iranian Opposition Leader Calls For More Rallies

June 17, 2009 by Source
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TEHRAN, Iran – Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi issued a direct challenge Wednesday to the country’s supreme leader and cleric-led system, calling for a mass rally to protest disputed election results and violence against his followers.

A crackdown on dissent continued, with more arrests of opposition figures reported, and the country’s most powerful military force _ the Revolutionary Guard _ saying that Iranian Web sites and bloggers must remove any materials that “create tension” or face legal action

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Health Insurance Lobby Group Protested by Doctors, Nurses, and Patients

June 4, 2009 by Doug Porter

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AHIP (America’s Health Insurance Plans) is a national lobbying organization representing over 1300 health insurance providers in the US. For the past few days they’ve been having their annual gathering at the San Diego Convention Center.

So, why was the street in front of the San Diego Convention Center lined with noisy protesters?

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Single-payer advocates and supporters: Come on out Thursday

June 3, 2009 by Source
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AHIP (America’s Health Insurance Plans) is having their annual meeting in San Diego this week. Nurses from the California Nurses Association and allies from groups like Physicians for a National Health Program and Progressive Democrats of America will be there to greet them – of course!

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Sit-in at County Clerk’s Office continues – arrests are anticipated

May 27, 2009 by Frank Gormlie
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by Frank Gormlie

LATEST UPDATE: 6:00 pm: All protesters remaining in the Clerk’s Office agreed to leave the building without being arrested.

UPDATE: At 5:15 pm, police are negotiating with “dozens” still remaining inside the Clerk’s Office. The County Building was closed at 5pm.

2:30 PM: I just came from the County of San Diego’s Clerk’s Office where a sit-in is going on in protest of the Supreme Court upholding Prop 8 – …

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2,000 Protest Supreme Court Decision In San Diego

May 26, 2009 by Frank Gormlie
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Hundreds of people gathered at 6th Ave and Laurel late this afternoon to protest today’s California Supreme Court decision upholding Prop 8. By time the crowd hit the street to march downtown to the Courthouse, it had swelled to 2,000.

It was a large – even huge-, friendly and boisterous crowd. Everyone seemed to be in good spirits, despite the reason for the protest.

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The Anti-War Dilemma: How To Protest A President You Trust

May 12, 2009 by Source

During the Bush era, peace protests were presupposed. If the President of the United States showed up anywhere, so did the protesters. Now that Barack Obama has taken over the helm, though, peace activists are debating and rehashing protest strategies and often not protesting at all.

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‘Calling in Gay’ Nation-wide Protest Held Today, Dec. 10th Against Passage of Prop 8

December 10, 2008 by Staff
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Gay men and women across the country are taking part in today’s “Day Without a Gay” economic boycott. Outraged by the recent passage of California’s Proposition 8 to overturn state rules allowing same-sex couples to marry, they and their supporters want everyone to be clear on where they stand. Here is what’s happening in Huston.

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Residents Turn Out to Save OB Library – Rallies Held at All 7 Threatened Libraries

November 22, 2008 by Staff
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Rally reports & photos – Ocean Beach, Carmel Mountain, University Community, Benjamin, University Heights.

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Updates on Vets’ Protest & Fast in Washington, DC

September 23, 2008 by Staff

September 23, 2008: A small group of veterans are currently staging a protest and fast in Washington, DC, calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice-President Cheney. 5 vets climbed up on a 35-foot ledge at the National Archives building, unfurled a huge banner, and began broadcasting statements by famous Americans calling for impeachment. […]

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Right Now: Veterans Climb Government Building, Call for Arrest of Bush and Cheney

September 23, 2008 by Staff

UPDATE: GO HERE. Vets Plan Fast On Ledge for 24 Hours Right now, five military veterans — from Veterans for Peace — are occupying a 35-foot high ledge at the National Archive Building and have raised a 22×8-foot banner reading, “DEFEND OUR CONSTITUTION. ARREST BUSH AND CHENEY: WAR CRIMINALS!” The veterans currently risking arrest have […]

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Palin Will Never be America’s ‘EveryWoman’

September 14, 2008 by Patty Jones

In what the AKMuckracker from the Mudflats blog called “the biggest political rally ever, in the history of the state,” citizens took to the streets in Anchorage Alaska to show how they feel about Sarah Palin, her politics and to dispel any notion that she speaks for the majority of hockey moms in that state. […]

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100 San Diegans Protest Blackwater’s Otay Mesa Training Facility & the Media Ignored It

September 13, 2008 by Frank Gormlie

Local Mainstream Media Boycott Demonstration – Politicians Are a No-Show OTAY MESA, San Diego, CA.  One hundred San Diegans protested on a warm Saturday afternoon, in the middle of an industrial park. They were protesting the training facility of Blackwater, the mercenary outfit that is operating just a couple blocks from the U.S.- Mexican border. […]

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5 Reasons to Demonstrate Against Blackwater Today – Sept. 13th – at Otay Mesa

September 13, 2008 by Frank Gormlie

There’s a demonstration against Blackwater being in San Diego County today. From 3pm to 5pm down at their Otay Mesa facility. Here’s five reasons to protest their incursion into our region: 1. Blackwater is a mercenary group responsible for the massacre a year ago in Iraq. Blackwater Worldwide has a history of killing innocent civilians. […]

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Local Resident & Participant in 1970 Fight to Stop the Jetty Speaks Out

August 2, 2008 by Frank Gormlie

OCEAN BEACH,CA. A local OB resident who was involved in the Summer 1970 fight to stop the jetty that the City of San Diego and the Army Corps of Engineers wanted to build in North OB, has now come forward to share details of those dramatic and exciting days & nights. Our local guy, who […]

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Gas prices fail to push most U.S. drivers to protest

July 18, 2008 by Staff

By Sue Doyle / Daily News / 07/17/2008 One worldwide group protests mayonnaise. Other people posed nude inside potholes for a calendar to object to the pesky pits in roads. Hard-nosed animal activists even boycotted paper towels containing whey. Seems nearly every issue and product has opposition ready to rally and march. So where’s the […]

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Caravan to Rally Against Education Budget Cuts

May 5, 2008 by Patty Jones

The Association of Raza Educators along with other teacher organizations have planned a state-wide Caravan to rally against the Education Budget Cuts. The Caravan will begin in San Diego with a press conference at 3:30 on Thursday May 8th at Chicano Park. They will be joining other educators from Los Angeles who will be holding […]

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Rally and March to Reverse Budget Cuts to Education

April 18, 2008 by Patty Jones

Teachers and staff in San Diego schools are trying to get the word out to the general public, the government, and the media just how devastating the proposed budget cuts will be to the education of all children in California’s public schools and universities. It is their goal to have the California legislature and the […]

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Longshoremen to close ports on West Coast to protest war

April 14, 2008 by Staff

by Jack Heyman While millions of people worldwide have marched against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and last week’s New York Times/CBS News poll indicated that 81 percent believe the country is headed in the wrong direction – key concerns being the war and the economy – the war machine inexorably grinds on. Amid […]

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D.C. police arrest about a dozen Iraq war protesters

March 19, 2008 by Staff

WASHINGTON – Police arrested more than a dozen people this morning who crossed a barricade and blocked entrances at the Internal Revenue Service building, the start of a day of protests marking the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.A crowd gathered outside the IRS headquarters, chanting “This is a Crime Scene” and “You’re […]

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More Peace Rally Photos

March 16, 2008 by Patty Jones

More great photos, these from our friend unk4jazz who we had the pleasure of meeting at the rally yesterday! We are well met! Click on the image to see a larger version at unk4jazz’s flickr site.

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Nearly 1000 San Diegans Rally & March Against the Iraq War

March 15, 2008 by Frank Gormlie

CITY HEIGHTS, SAN DIEGO, CA: Nearly a thousand San Diegans participated in a march and rally against the Iraq war and occupation in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego, today. Famed novelist and social critic Gore Vidal spoke at the rally in Teralta Park. The protests began around 1:00 p.m. at the corner of […]

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“San Diego Veterans For Peace” call for action today – March 14th!

March 1, 2008 by Patty Jones

What San Diego Veterans For Peace USS MIDWAY Peace Protest When Friday, March 14 at 5:00PM Where USS MIDWAY MUSEUM 910 N. Harbor Drive San Diego CA 92101 Vets For Freedom is a veterans organization, heavily funded by right wing groups, who are touring the country to boost the war effort in Iraq. Their nationwide […]

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Protest in San Diego Against Weapons Training in Schools

February 14, 2008 by Patty Jones

From the San Diego Coalition for Peace and Justice San Diego students, teachers, parents and others protested on Feb. 12, 2008, at the city school board meeting. They asked the school board to have a full hearing on their proposal to: Ban JROTC weapons training. Stop the involuntary placement of students in military science classes. […]

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