Everybody Loves Protests!

For your convenience, Spacetropic is offering this handy summary of people in action fighting the proverbial power. So c'mon everybody! Bring your street puppets, phone cameras, and lithe, socially 'conscience' girlfriends. It's protest time!

Protesters: Hispanic teenagers In Northern Virginia.
Complaining About: Congressional legislation aimed at curbing illegal immigration.
How Many Strong: About 250
Fun Fact: They used the MySpace social networking site to organize the protest, and they join the hundreds of thousands of protesters who have already held demonstrations on the West Coast.

Protesters: Smelly French kids
Complaining About: The ability to drift along for a few years working 32 hours a week and not get fired.
How Many Strong: A couple of hundred thousand, with support from labor unions.
Fun Fact: Cradle-to-grave socialism sounds nice on paper but isn't really a very good idea.

Protester: Twee alternative rock icon Morrissey.
Complaining About: Canadian seal hunting.
How Many Strong: Morrissey and a handful of other activist celebrities like Paul McCartney and Brigette Bardot.
Fun Fact: Animal rights isn't a new cause for old Moz - as anyone who owns the classic Smiths postpunk fave 'Meat Is Murder' is aware.

Protesters: City employees in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Complaining About: The forced removal of a stuffed Easter bunny from the lobby of City Hall to prevent the possibility offending non-Christians.
How Many Strong: Nobody knows ... but they are leaving marshmallow 'Peeps' in protest.
Fun Fact: The original name of the settlement that became St. Paul was Pig's Eye. It was named for the French-Canadian whiskey trader, Pierre "Pig's Eye" Parrant, who had led squatters to the settlement.

Protesters: Former boy band stars, grim social justice professors.
Complaining About: The Iraq war.
How Many Strong: Looks like almost a dozen on a streetcorner in downtown Cincinnati.
Fun Fact: Some people seriously think there is a planned conspiracy on the part of the "corporate" media to avoid giving coverage to non-events like this.