Anti-Donald Trump protesters lost their minds tonight in Los Angeles, in Santa Ana and at several UC campuses, including UCI.
I am not sure what exactly they are trying to accomplish. The time to protest was when the DNC conspired to steal the primary election from Bernie Sanders so they could hand it to the corrupt Hillary Clinton. Trump won because she was an awful candidate! Continue reading
Anti-police protesters took over a span of First Street, in Santa Ana today, to protest the recent police shooting of Ernesto Javier Canepa Diaz, a man who was accused of robbing a 63-year-old Latina grandmother on Feb. 13 while she was loading her grandchildren into a car in the 2300 block of N. Louise St.
Taking over a public street without a parade permit is illegal and poses a danger to the drivers and the protesters. Continue reading
Peace activists will be providing information to students the military won’t provide – How to get out if you join, stats on jobs, giving up your rights, and more, at Santa Ana High School on Thursday, May 30, 2013, at 6:30 am, according to a Facebook event page.
The event organizers are asking their followers to “be polite and don’t walk on school property, and please don’t block sidewalks.” And apparently they will have fliers in Spanish for parents, too. Continue reading
While the grand opening of the new Orange County Church of Scientology’s Santa Ana Ideal Org was well attended and very well orchestrated, there were a few detractors – including at least one disgruntled member of the local media.
The anti-Scientology protesters have their own website, here. Continue reading
UPDATE: Intense pressure is building all over the U.S. to shut down Occupy as the encampents have become increasingly squalid and dangerous. NEW – Deaths at Occupy Camps Bring Pressure for Shutdown (ABC)
The Occupy movement is still licking their wounds over the Santa Ana’s justifiable decision to not allow them to camp out overnight in our downtown. They will be in Irvine again this Saturday if you want to see them in “action.” They may also be in Santa Ana, in smaller numbers. Click here to see their Facebook page.
In the meantime, here is a wrap-up of Occupy news from around the nation – and it isn’t good news:
The Occupy American movement is going to congregate in Anaheim, on Oct. 10, from 12 noon to 1 pm, at 101 S. Harbor Bl, to protest Chase and Bank of America.
It would appear that the unions are now involved in this, which comes as no surprise. What is funny is that they are mad at the banks for charging debit card fees, but it was the Democrats in Congress who passed a bill that led to this. Did they really think the banks would just eat their lost profit? Would you? Continue reading
For Immediate Release
For More Information: C. William Wood, Chair, 949-338-3713, Rusty Kennedy, Executive Director 714-567-7465
OC Human Relations Commission Calls for a Return to Civility in Reaction to Muslim Charity Speakers and Protests
The Orange County Human Relations Commission was created in 1971 to promote mutual understanding among Orange County residents and eliminate the causes of prejudice, intolerance and discrimination.
On March 10, 2011 at the regularly scheduled meeting of the Commission the speakers and protests at a Muslim charity event held on February 13 at the Yorba Linda Community Center were discussed and the Commission voted to issue a statement.
The Orange County Human Relations Commission:
1. Sends our empathy and support to the Muslim children who attended this event with their families, and were subjected to hateful and bigoted insults. The Commission feels that there is no reason to insult each other when differences of opinion occur, and compounding the inappropriateness of those bigoted and hateful insults by directing them at children is inexcusable.
2. Commends the City of Yorba Linda and their police department for the way they handled these contentious events, protecting the rights of all parties, and creating a safe environment for these highly emotional conflicts to play out peacefully.
3. Commends one of the leaders of the rally who apologized publicly for the atrocious behavior of the hecklers, even though she was not associated with them and did not know them. This gracious apology acknowledges that what these families and children were subjected to by the hecklers, was wrong.
4. Calls on the passionate hecklers who deliver their opinions with such raw emotion, to take a deep breath and look at themselves and their behaviors and recognize that their inappropriate actions hurt their own cause. A more civil debate is a more constructive avenue to promote a perspective in a democratic society.
5. Calls on leaders who speak to large groups and have many people who listen to their words, to tamp down the generalizations that vilify whole groups of people based on the actions of a few. Step back from their colorful, emotionally laden language so that fringe elements of our community don’t feel emboldened to act out their bigotry with hate crimes.
6. Calls on organizations and groups to shun speakers whose hateful rhetoric and violent innuendo polarizes people, scapegoats whole groups for the actions of a few, and incites bigotry and violence.
7. Calls on perpetrators of hate crime to stop their threats against leaders and crimes against individuals.
8. Calls on all Orange County residents, Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Sikh, White, Latino, Black, Asian, Gay, Straight, Disabled, men, women, children, young and old, to come together to condemn these acts of bigotry.
Orange County Human Relations Commission
1300 S. Grand, Bldg B, Santa Ana, CA 92705
714.567.7470 www.ochumanrelations.org
Commissioners:
Bill Wood Chair
Ken Inouye Vice Chair
Ellen Ahn
Nadia Bettendorf
Becky Esparza
Chief Dave Maggard
Ki Hong Park
Amy Peikoff
Carol Turpen
Vincent De Vargas
Doug Wooley
I finally found some video of the protest at Meg Whitman’s Santa Ana office. Kudos to the Dream Teamers for showing up and letting Whitman know what we think of her here in Santa Ana!
It is ironic that Whitman opened her Santa Ana office the same week that her latest scandal broke out – she fired a housekeeper taht worked for her for nine years and turned out to be undocumented. Click here to read about that.
On June 3, 2010, the Santa Ana 8 effectively shut down the ICE detention facility in Santa Ana to protest SB 1070, local 287(g) laws, and attacks on immigrants in the local community. They were charged with 5 misdemeanors, these were dropped but they were cited by the City of Santa Ana.
Now the Santa Ana 8 and their supporters are trying to raise funds to pay the citations. They are having a party to help the Santa Ana 8 with legal fees, as well to provide an opportunity for the community to come together and have some fun under the influence of alcohol.
There will be alcohol, food, great energy, and music!
Today at 7:30pm – 2:00am
Location: 417 Harwood, SanTana between Mcfadden and Main.
The Santa Ana 8 supporters are asking a $5 dollar donation.
If you can’t make it but would like to make a donation for “la causa,” please make your check payable to Girl Scout Troop 1906 and under the note section state: SA8.
Click here to RSVP on Facebook.
UPDATE: The Santa Ana 8 have all been released from jail!
Santa Ana students engaged in a civil disobedience action with the purpose of shutting down all activity in the Santa Ana Federal Detention Center, today.
At 10 am eight students blocked the driveway entrance to the detention center where buses full of detained immigrants enter and exit. Students sat down in the middle of the street and locked their arms using lockboxes so as to not be removed by the police or I.C.E. agents. Soon afterwards a large crowd of 300 supporters began to gather around the protestors declaring, “We are all Arizona!”
The protesters are not releasing their identities or carrying identifications in solidarity with undocumented people who are discriminated against and dehumanized because of discriminatory legislation and policies such as SB1070 in Arizona and Costa Mesa’s “Rule of Law.” Continue reading
Miguel Pulido’s pal Alex Vega struck again late this afternoon, assembling about 20 of his family and friends in front of Santa Ana mayoral candidate Alfredo Amezcua’s law office, at 1319 N. Broadway, in Santa Ana.
The protesters carried signs alluding to Vega’s charges that Amezcua is a bad lawyer. That despite the fact that the California Stat Bar Association does not note any complaints in Amezcua’s file.
Why is Pulido allowing Vega to embarrass him like this? It would be one thing to argue the issues with Amezcua, but going after his business is a real low blow. Continue reading