National protest comes to Fresno State

By Bryan Cole | April 17, 2009

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More than 7,000 protesters gathered in the Save Mart Center parking lot on Wednesday, as part of a nationwide campaign patterned after the Boston Tea Party.

Tina Rios, a Fresno housewife, was one of the many protesters who believe taxes are used irresponsibly.

“I believe in helping out, but it needs to go to the right people,” Rios said.

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6 Responses to “National protest comes to Fresno State”

    Impeach Obama:
    April 17th, 2009 10:25 am

    Save Mart Center parking lot? That’s the cultural epicenter and the forum of politics we have to look forward to in Fresno? Come on now.

    torchem:
    April 17th, 2009 10:41 am

    let us all just torch all those responsible for the way it is now, burn em at the stake. that will solve all our problems.

    impeach obama and empower whom? the vp joe “absentee” biden. or rather joe who?

    Pat Murray:
    April 17th, 2009 11:57 am

    These “protesters” need to get a life. Obama has cut taxes for 95% of all Americans. Only those making over $250,000 per year are seeing their taxes raised. And even then, they’re now being taxed at a rate 10 percent LESS than when Ronald Reagan was president a quarter century ago.

    99% of these “protesters” are Republicans who sat quiet and didn’t say a word while the government spent TRILLIONS of taxpayer dollars on a needless war in Iraq and allowed Wall Street and Big Corporations to make BILLIONS for 8 years.

    We are fortunate to have a president like Obama who cares about the average citizen rather than a president like Bush who gave huge tax breaks to only the millionaires and billionaires, and big corporations.

    Totes Magotes:
    April 17th, 2009 10:02 pm

    Obama can’t live up to the hype. He’s a sap, a dimwit—–a scrotal itch if you will.

    dw:
    April 18th, 2009 4:39 pm

    YAWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I agree with Homeland Security–there are right wing extremist groups and from the cries of “revolution” heard at this event, makes me wonder what business the University had making the Save Mart parking lot available to the loons. But, rumor is Save Mart isn’t making money anymore, so the campus will rent it out to anything that comes off the street.

    junior:
    April 19th, 2009 5:27 pm

    I wouldn’t worry. A lot of these right wingers are well-off, ineffectual sloths. They may be mad about having to give up more of their money, but they won’t lift a finger to actually back up their convictions.