Opponents of the California Department of Transportation’s Richardson Grove Improvement Project staged a second rally Monday at Caltrans’ District 1 office on Wabash in Eureka. Colorful signs, chants of “One demand: Cancel the plan!,” and personal, impassioned, megaphone-aided pleas from protesters directed at local law enforcement and office occupants were plentiful.
The rally (similar in nature to the Feb. 7 rally previously reported on by the Journal) attracted over 100 community members, many affiliated with the group Richardson Grove Action Now! Pretend you were there by clicking “more”:
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One notable occurrence: protesters stealthily erected a ladder to the lip of the awning covering the main door of the building. A single protester was quickly able to scurry up the ladder, just out of the reach of law enforcement who then lowered the ladder.
Within 10 minutes, officers climbed out a second story window onto the roof and gently removed her, but not before obligatory cheering and flashing o’ peace signs.
Protesting makes you hungry.
One protester illustrates another use for saws.
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The protest was pretty much a dud. The gas line at Costco is more exciting. The only highlight was the gal that got on the roof of the front stoop, nothing a 15 year old couldn’t have pulled off.
So why were you there, Richard? Looking for some “action”? Wrong place!
Verbena told me I was FBI and she didn’t want me filming her. I got it on video. Really wanted to shine a positive light on the richardson grove issue, but sadly their leader (verbena) has made herself clear.
Stupid. Dweebs. I was at lunch today when one of these idiots approached us saying join us. I was quiet and so was the person whom she targeted. I loved the response after she left. It was “she’s a looney tune whacko. I chuckled
Stupid. Dweebs. I was at lunch today when one of these idiots approached us saying join us. I was quiet and so was the person whom she targeted. I loved the response after she left. It was “she’s a looney tune whacko. I chuckled
The Richardson Grove “Improvement Project” has been handed to you on an internet platter.
This is the internet, turdburgers. Good work on your trollitude, I’m sure you’re getting a chuckle.
Go outside and see how many people are protesting FOR the Richardson Grove “Improvement Project”. Or have been, ever. Better yet, go outside and show the world YOU want to cut some more meat out of the heart of an old growth grove in Humboldt County.
…and the spambots take over.
Early this month, the Richardson Grove group was parked during Arts Alive! at 2nd and C telling everyone who passed by that “Cal Trans is cutting down the old growth redwoods…!!!”. They are seemingly the same group that flies the Redwood CopWatch banner on the same corner. This leads me to think this is just a cause du jour for the Protests R Us group. The girl on the roof was from San Leandro? What does she know or care about Humboldt businesses. Also, I can’t help but wonder what the protesters do for income…the rest of us have to actually WORK during the day.
ARGH!!! Photo overkill! I can’t even start to read comments and had to stop the page loading. Seriously, guys, it’s not really necessary to waste our time with no info and tons of photos– that’s what the T-S does. Give us more info and less bandwidth-sucking (and crappy anyway) photos. Perhaps get off your asses and actually go to the scene instead of just sending out some scuzzy hippie. Reporting FAIL.
Good pictures, Mr. Goff. Thank you.
If readers would like to see more comments, opinion, and the 2 minute puppet show made for the minions, you’ll find it at the local site,
the Humboldt Herald, easily found here.
Anon: “sending out some scuzzy hippie”
See, I thought I was overdressed that day. Go fig.
Somebody at the Journal should simply poll as many businesses in Humboldt as possible, local and otherwise, and publish a list of which either support or oppose this project, as well as those that abstain from voting. Abstaining would not assume objection or support. It’d make for a great and relevant read.
If those dirty (pretty clean looking) hippies don’t want goods from outside of Humboldt County, why isn’t there anything completely made, start to finish, from Humboldt County in those pictures?
From the Ace hardware saw to the cream cheese….bongos….
Oh that’s right. You don’t really need to live in Humboldt County to protest here.
If it’s a Humboldt protest, there must be drums!
normally I’d be there supporting the protest, but I’m on the other side of the issue on this one. I want to see the roads expanded in order to improve services/offerings in Humboldt. Humboldt has lost it’s industries so something has to change before it turns into a ghost town or a retirement community.
History is repeating itself, one “improvement” project at a time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzYvfNOqCDE
Where would YOU like to see Caltrans spend me?