The protest, an update
Thursday, September 24th, 2009
Last weekend was a slow day in the office, so the Bolsavik went around and took some pictures of the weekly protests outside of Nguoi Viet.
Here’s an update on what’s happening now. Every day, the protestors, usually about 4 or 5 of them, still come to Nguoi Viet and open the truck with the photos of former South Vietnam’s generals who died defending the country in the last days of the war. That’s the truck in the foreground.
On week-ends, though, they would come out more in force, each person would carry a flag and they would march up and down Moran Avenue. They would stop for a while at Bolsa, the main thoroughfare of Bolsavikland, and then march right back.
These protestors apparently are very adamant that people know there’s still a protest going on.
A few weeks ago, the L.A. Times ran a story by My-Thuan Tran, here, about the thriving Little Saigon media market. It contains a line about “ending the 18-month demonstrations.”
That little throwaway line turned out to tick off the protestors big time.

The three main characters in the long-running protest against Nguoi Viet Daily News have been found liable in the lawsuit filed by the paper, a jury in the Orange County Superior Court today. Trial will continue tomorrow with the damages phase.
The vote was 4-1, with Councilman Andy Quach’s appointee Andrew Nguyen (the Westminster school board member) voting in favor of the restriction. The appointees of Tri Ta and Tyler Diep also voted for the restriction. The lone nay came from Gil Cruz, the appointee of Frank Fry who just didn’t think the parking restriction would be effective in stopping the protest.




