Subject: Protests and Demonstrations

• Pet Peeves: A Chesterfield pet store is dogged by accusations of selling mistreated puppies

  February 4, 2009

• A Memory, A Monologue: A Rant and a Prayer, Part 2

  February 14, 2008

• A-B Buyout Going Down This Weekend

  July 11, 2008

• Video: St. Louis' First Naked Bike Ride

  August 4, 2008

• Prop 8 Protest Set for Saturday at Old Courthouse

  Update: Coverage and photos of the protest: "Prop 8 Leaves Some Missourians in Marital Limbo" A protest against California's Proposition 8, which bans gay marriage, is set for noon Saturday on the steps of the Old Courthouse. Show Me No Hate has been set up to inform people about the demonstration. Although the measure -- approved by California voters on election day -- applies only to California, protests are planned across the country.

  November 14, 2008

• Over the Weekend: Old School Tattoos, Prop 8 Protest

  Good morning, St. Louis. Here's what you may have missed over the weekend... Prop 8 Protest On Saturday afternoon, between 500 and 1,000 people, depending on who you ask, gathered around the Old Courthouse on Broadway to protest the recent passage ban on same-sex marriage (Read "Prop 8 Protest Set for Saturday at Old Courthouse.") April Breeden (left) and Crystal Peairs (right.)

  November 17, 2008

• The Morning Brew: Friday, 12.19

  In today's news: more countries need food aid, Mexico protests U.S. labeling laws, eating cats in china and brewing beer in space.

  December 19, 2008

• Tea and "Grumpets" Under the Arch

  flickr.com/photos/cmbellmanA group of folks opposed to the federal stimulus package President Barack Obama signed into law earlier this month are meeting under the Gateway Arch tomorrow to protest the legislation.Similar rallies are being held across the country on Friday. Protesters are comparing themselves to Revolutionary War patriots and calling the event a Tea Party Protest.Activities begin promptly at 11 a.m. In his blog, organizer Bill Hennessy is encouraging attendees at the St. Louis ev

  February 26, 2009

• Hate Cycling Shorts?

  July 23, 2008

• Law and Anarchy

  October 10, 2007

• Back to the Bolozone

  March 28, 2007

• Roxy Trading Inc. Salted Mustard Green

  August 2, 2006

• The Clown Priest

  July 26, 2006

• Party Train

  Janis, the Dead, the Band and others take the happiest trip of their lives

  August 25, 2004

• Legal Loopholes

  Vandalism isn't a crime in St. Louis. Just ask the police.

  August 13, 2003

• Meet the Anarchists

  The brouhaha surrounding this year's World Agricultural Forum said a lot about St. Louis. And a lot of what it said wasn't very good.

  June 25, 2003

• Draught-Dodger

  Week of May 14, 2003

  May 14, 2003

• Hell No, They Won't Go

  Protesters say pens are for sheep, not Bush critics

  April 23, 2003

• Clever Boy

  He says he was too subtle for police; they say he wouldn't behave

  April 16, 2003

• Requiem

  St. Louisans come together to remember what was lost on 9/11

  September 11, 2002

• Pine Valley Cosmonauts and Guests

  The Executioner's Last Songs (Bloodshot)

  June 26, 2002

• The Calm Before the Storm

  October 10, 2001

• Howard's End

  February 16, 2000

• WAGE DELAY

  November 24, 1999

• Oh, My GOD. Funeral Protests By Westboro Baptist Church Right-wingers Can Go On While America Goes to Hell

  www.godhatesfags.comOn Tuesday the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case brought by the state of Missouri, which has a law banning protesters from funerals. Missouri passed the law in 2006 in order to banish the Topeka, Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church from disturbing the peace at military funerals. Westboro's members like to spout off about totally unrelated events and U.S. policies -- gay rights, mainly, hence the church's "godhatesfags" domain name -- while the caskets carrying the m

  July 1, 2009

• Group Succeeds in Brief, Peaceful Shutdown of I-70

  Last week we told you how the African-American Business and Contractors Association's planned to shutdown Interstate 70 as a way to protest what they say is a lack of black contractors hired for road construction jobs in Missouri and Illinois. In making its announcement, the group noted that its planned shutdown for Monday would come nearly ten years to the day that a similar demonstration on the interstate led to the arrest of the Rev. Al Sharpton and more than 100 other protesters. Unlike that

  July 14, 2009

• Match Points: Readers chew on Match meat and tea parties

  July 15, 2009

• Getting to the Bottom of that Puzzling Claire McCaskill Tweet

  Earlier today Daily RFT blogger Bill Streeter posted a quizzical "tweet" made yesterday on Senator Claire McCaskill's Twitter feed. Curious as to what McCaskill was discussing in this post, I just conducted a grueling two minutes of Internet research to arrive at the bottom of the matter.Not surprisingly, the St. Louis Tea Party is at the center of the debate.

  July 21, 2009

• Want To Be in Old Lights' Video?

  Old Lights' fundraiser for its upcoming video was a rousing success, because David Beeman writes in with details on how you can be in the video, which is filming this Sunday!We are shooting this Sunday, July 26th. 7 AM to 12 Noon on 8th and Olive downtown. We are doing a big street riot thing with real cop cars, full-on rented riot gear, and a bunch of rioters. I will be walking right through it all with a fish bowl on my head with CGI fish swimming in and out of my mouth as I sing. We need

  July 21, 2009

• Smoking Ban Supporters to Rally Prior to Tonight's County Council Meeting

  Members of the St. Louis County Council could vote tonight on a proposed bill that would ask its residents to vote on an indoor smoking ban. Prior to tonight's 6 p.m. council meeting, the group Smoke Free St. Louis plans to hold a rally in downtown Clayton in support of the ban. The rally begins at 4:30 p.m. in front of the Lawrence K. Roos building. (Map here). The group's Facebook site encourages both St. Louis City and County residents to attend tonight's forum as the city won't pass a simila

  August 4, 2009

• DNC Responds to Tea Party Protesters, "Birthers" and Other Malcontents

  Have you seen the Democratic National Committee video making the rounds on the Internet? I'm not sure it's going to silence any members of the St. Louis Tea Party (especially now that Fox News has made the group so legit), but it does seem to fight fire with fire by using video clips of the protester to portray them as a bitter mob of wackos. What do you think? And -- as the video suggests -- do you think the Republican National Committee would really try to stop the protesters if enough people

  August 6, 2009

• Public Education = Socialism. Let's Protest the First Day of School!

  Protest like it's 1959!​I just wrote a 1,000 word essay on the bizarre political rhetoric of the last few weeks. But then I thought, why bother? You don't get attention these days via the printed word. You get attention by arriving en masse outside a business or government building (preferably one that's not expecting you) and shouting your hatred for all the world to hear!That's right. I'm talking a protest! And since the word "socialism" seems to bring out lots and lots of demonstrators, I'm

  August 18, 2009

• Protest Against Public Schools, Socialism Impacts Hearts and Minds of Dozen(s)

  Behind the author's grin is a McCarthyist rage that cannot be contained. (Note the police presence in the background.)​Well that went well. As promised, this morning I arrived at Adams Elementary School in the Forest Park Southeast Neighborhood to protest the nefarious ties between public education and socialism. Earlier this week I wrote about my plans and invited Daily RFT readers to join me in my demonstration. No one did (yet another testament to the vast influence of this blog), but at le

  August 20, 2009

• St. Louis Police Apologize to "Anarchists"

  Dan Green, owner of the home, called "Bolozone", where many of the protesters were rounded up by police.​The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department has reached a settlement with four would-be protesters arrested prior to the 2003 World Agriculture Forum held in St. Louis. The demonstrators -- who the police dubbed "anarchists" -- claimed the police unlawfully detained them prior to the forum and violated their civil rights. Among the allegations made were that the police illegally searched t

  August 25, 2009

• Chad Garrison wages a lonely protest, while a newlywed takes a bummer of an acid trip in a Fenton park

  August 26, 2009

• Spanish Lake Casino Opponents Set to Picket County Planning Commission Meeting Tonight

  www.knitwareblog.com​Remember the late-July proposal from a North St. Louis County developer for a massive casino and resort next to the Columbia Bottom Conservation Area? The one that would turn 376 acres of wetlands into 8,000 parking spots, an 18-hole golf course, and another Casino in the St. Louis area? The one that became significantly more likely after the state's gaming commission freed up a casino license by ruling that the Admiral Riverboat must close sometime this year?Yup, that's t

  September 14, 2009