Protests and Demonstrations

Someone Stole a Rubber Fetus From an Anti-Abortion Protest. The Catholic Pro-Life Committee Is Not Amused.

It's not uncommon, if you happen to be passing the intersection of Greenville Avenue and Royal Lane, to be confronted by very large, very graphic photographs of aborted fetuses. The corner is a favored hangout of anti-abortion protesters, presumably in support of the White Rose Women's Center, which ... More >>

Judge Recuses Himself From Keystone XL Protesters' Cases Over Conflict of Interest

A $65,000 bond for three young people arrested on misdemeanor charges sounded unusually high to us when we wrote about the Keystone XL protesters locked up in Smith County a week ago. Bail was halved Wednesday, but that was only after the presiding judge recused himself from the case over a conflic ... More >>

Bond Was Set Extra High for Keystone Pipeline Protesters, to Send Those Hippies a Message

For more than two weeks, three young people arrested on misdemeanor charges have remained in a Smith County jail, unable to bond about because a judge set bail at $65,000. They stand accused of misdemeanor criminal trespassing, resisting arrest and illegal dumping. But the unusually high bond amou ... More >>

Wal-Mart Associates in Dallas Walk Off Job, Protest Suckiness of Working at Wal-Mart

Last week, workers at Wal-Mart stores in Southern California walked off the job in what was, per Salon, the first multi-store strike in the retail giant's history. Today, the protest made its way to Dallas. Workers at nine area Wal-Mart stores walked off the job this morning to demand higher wages ... More >>

Fear, Loathing and Tons of Strippers: What Happens When the GOP Comes to Town

At Paul Quinn College's Trayvon Martin Rally,
A Cry For Justice

Repercussions from the fatal shooting of unarmed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin will be felt in Austin next year, state Senator Royce West told hundreds of demonstrators who gathered at Paul Quinn College today to mourn and demand justice for the 17-year-old. "We've come together today, but what w ... More >>

A MoveOn Petition, And a Really Tiny Protest, Outside Komen's LBJ Headquarters Today

It probably hasn't escaped the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation's notice that an awful lot of people are very, very unhappy with the organization lately. Just to drive the point home a little further, reps from MoveOn.org, CREDO Action and UltraViolet announced they'd be hand-delivering a Move ... More >>

Along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard This Morning, a Parade ... and a Protest

I was out wandering around not far from my house this morning when I was lucky enough to catch a bit of the annual Elite News-sponsored Martin Luther King Day Parade. Hundreds of people turned out to watch, lining the former Forest Avenue for at least a mile. The marchers included the mayor (trailin ... More >>

The Rewards of a Good Buzz

Special thanks to those who made 2011 so very, very special.

Breaking: City of Dallas Boots Occupy Dallas From Their Campsite Behind City Hall

All photos by Robert WilonskyThe scene outside, and around, Dallas City Hall at 12:40 a.m.​Robert's downtown at the Occupy Dallas camp, where police are breaking up protestors as we speak. He sends along these photos, and this: City has yanked their agreement with Occupy Dallas, and they're curre ... More >>

Occupy Dallas's Bogus Arrests: We Got to Get Up and Organize

​No way is this over. No way should anybody let this drop. The Occupy Dallas arrests last Saturday should be taken as a direct challenge, not a lesson or defeat. The Dallas Police Department is already trying to paper over the outrageous arrests of seven bank protesters last Saturday on trump ... More >>

More Tarnish for the "Texas Miracle"

New report finds the Lone Star swimming in deep debt.

City Hall Tells Dallas Occupiers to Get Insurance or Else. They're Leaning Toward "Or Else."

​At 1:20 this morning Boston police stormed an Occupy encampment in Boston Greenway park, hauled off more than 100 protesters in cable-tie cuffs and tore down their tents. Everybody in the Occupy Dallas encampment I talked to at about noon today was aware of what just happened in Boston. The ... More >>

When Dallas Decides It's Over Being Occupied, That's When Things Could Get Ugly

Start the countdown. How long will it be before Dallas City Hall decides to evict the Occupy protest campers from Pioneer Plaza? You know it's coming. If the Occupy Dallas anti-corporate-greed protesters continue to camp out in a park just down the block from City Hall, political pressure will buil ... More >>

City Grants Occupy Dallas a Special Permit

​We began the day by discussing Occupy Dallas's missive to the mayor concerning their encampment at Pioneer Plaza, between Dallas City Hall and the Dallas Convention Center. We end it -- not counting our Rangers liveblog, which is now into extra innings -- with this: Following a sitdown with the g ... More >>

On Thursday, "Occupy Dallas"

​There's a HuffPo piece this morning about how the pepper-spray-flavored Occupy Wall Street protests moved to the West Coast yesterday -- San Francisco, specifically, and the Bank of America building in the Financial District. Next Thursday, though, they hit a little closer to home. Without Radioh ... More >>

Will City Plan Commission OK Greenville Ave. Bowling Alley? We'll Find Out Thursday. Maybe.

​No doubt you've heard of plans to plant a six-lane bowling alley-slash-bar next to Good Records on Lowest Greenville. It was on the City Plan Commission's agenda two weeks ago, at the same time the CPC replatted Valley View Center to make way for its inevitable demolition. Problem was, neighborho ... More >>

Before Dallas ISD Releases Two New Budgets, a Plea for Trustees to Save 42 Librarians

​School's out, but not for the Dallas Independent School District's trustees, who're meeting at this very moment (behind closed doors) before they look at two versions of the 2011-'12 budget -- what they're calling versions 5.1 and 6.0, which follow the iteration presented to the board on May 26 t ... More >>

Art in the Pot

Q&A: Eyehategod's Mike Williams Talks Playing Around Christmas, Going Through Bass Players and Liking The Carpenters

For over 22 years, Mike Williams has led the New Orleans metal band Eyehategod. And, in that time, the singer has endured numerous protestors at shows, a constantly revolving situation with bass players and even some time in jail in 2005 on a narcotics charge. Through it all, Williams has remained c ... More >>

Vegans Protest Downtown McDonald's; Voice Opposition to the Egg McMuffin

​The newest McDonald's opened today in the West End in a fury of scampering commuters, El Centro students seeking to get amped up on coffee before class and Eddie Garza whose Dallas Mercy for Animals staged a protest.Remember Eddie Garza: He wrote the Vegan Guy for City of Ate. Being a vegan and ... More >>

Getting Topless for Animal Rights Downtown, It's, Yes, Another PETA Protest

Patrick MichelsSee more pics of the protest in Kevin Todora's slideshow.​If you happened to stroll past Pegasus Plaza downtown over the lunch hour, what follows may not be news to you. Odds are, you already noticed the 20-some protesters wielding signs with behind-the-scenes photos of elephants an ... More >>

While DISD Takes A Time-Out Over O.M. Roberts Rebuilding Plans, Jubilee Park Residents Keep Their Protest Alive

Photos by Patrick MichelsNeighbors from Jubilee Park were protesting outside DISD headquarters again last night, while parents supporting expansion plans for O.M. Roberts Elementary held their own meeting at the school.The Dallas Independent School District's designs on land around O.M. Roberts Ele ... More >>

As Judges Heard Arguments For and Against Same-Sex Divorce, the World's Tiniest Protest Took Place Outside

Patrick MichelsMichael Robinson, left, and David Bowling were the sole protesters at today's same-sex divorce hearing downtown.​So much for the media circus outside today's highly anticipated (judging by the advance news coverage, anyway) hearing at the George L. Allen Sr. Courts Building, where t ... More >>

The Right Steals A Page From The Left’s Playbook And Scores

Outside a Quiet Two-Party Town Hall, Health Care Demonstrators Take To the Streets

Patrick MichelsDemonstrators on both sides of the debate shared space outside this morning's town hall meeting with Rep. Pete Sessions and Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson.​Update: Check out our slide show for more photos from the meeting and the protest.Walking up to the health care reform protest outs ... More >>

PETA Goes With Blood, Not Sex, To Dramatize Seal Hunt Protest Downtown

Sara KerensUndaunted by the mighty Canadian consulate downtown, the PETA protesters stand their ground.When People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals came to Fort Worth earlier this month, they parked a woman in a cage, nearly naked and painted up like a cat, on a sidewalk downtown. So imagine our ... More >>

At Dallas City Hall Today, Hundreds Show Support for Friends and Family in Iran

Megan FeldmanThis afternoon outside Dallas City Hall, several hundred people braved the summer's first 100-degree day to protest the violent crackdown on demonstrators in Iran. They waved Iranian flags, held signs demanding freedom and democracy and showed photographs of the violence that has rocked ... More >>

Hours Before Texas Gets Back in the Execution Business, a Small Protest

Shareholders' Proposals Run Out of Gas at Exxon Shindig at Meyerson

In West Texas, a Dallas Company Fights to Bury Radioactive Waste

Listen and Learn: Protest The Hero

The Broken Promises of NAFTA

Smokestack Somersaults

"Un-American, un-Texan and un-Christian"

Looking South, Heading North

It's No Fun Being an Illegal Alien

Drunk with Power?

Best Place to be Negative

Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery

Life in the Slow Lane

This Bush's summer home is a long way from Kennebunkport, but the folks in Crawford think that's fine

Robert Plant

Dreamland (Universal)

Blueprint

American Bishops adopted an abuse policy in the same image of the Diocese of Dallas'

Paranoia will destroya

Judge Kendall's wife sends the black helicopters after Southlake's "Citizen of the Year"

Shriner, happy people

Scooter for your lives! The Freemasons are coming.