Hundreds protesting various issues tie up traffic around City Hall

Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 04/15/2016 | Tommy Rowan

[Kid Shelleen]

As the evening rush of motorists descended upon Center City on Thursday evening, protesters from varying movements joined together for a large-scale "Day of Action" march to bring attention to their many causes.

The marchers - including a few hundred activists seeking a national $15-an-hour minimum wage, a halt to a proposed stadium for Temple University, and an end to racial injustice - snaked down North Broad Street all the way to City Hall, where they stopped traffic for more than an hour.

Bishop Dwayne Royster, executive director of POWER (Philadelphians Organized to Witness, Empower and Rebuild), said the goal wasn't to stop traffic.

"It's about disruption," he said.

[dp0622]

“It’s about disruption,” he said...

annoying, worthless, princess f....t.

My fist in his face would be about disruption.

How does that not happen more often?

I don’t think I would last more than 3 minutes without getting out of my car and promptly beating the @#$@#$ out of one of them.

God forgive me.

[Kid Shelleen]

PING!

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

It’s a bunch of RATS blocking traffic in a heavy RAT area.

[ConservativeWarrior]

I live 30 minutes from Philly and could easily make 50% more by working there, even after the commie city wage tax.

I choose not to work there for reasons like this. I don’t want to support the city any more than I’m already forced to via state taxes.

[Mouton]

Philadelphians Organized to Witness, Empower and Rebuild

Missing a letter there but then again it would not be an accronysm. After Empower insert Destroy. POWEDR.

[Noumenon]

Big-ass cattle prod’s the ticket

[dfwgator]

[SZonian]

“Doubt is not a crime”?

So AGW deniers can say this, right?

But in reality, it’d be like saying “Dissent is patriotic”, because that’s only acceptable when leftists say it.

[Albion Wilde]

bump

[Squeako]

Does anyone remember when Civil Disobedience was to target to unjust things like drinking out of the wrong fountain or sitting in the front of the bus? Now, it’s just any mass disruption or chaotic behavior.

[BenLurkin]

“It’s about disruption,”

What goes around, comes around, amigo.

[hal ogen]

There are many, many a**holes in society...too many.

[Freee-dame]

I remember the protest against the IMF and World Bank meetings in DC in the early 2000's. Many leftist groups were there with their raggedy banners promoting all kinds of leftist ideas. Back then they at least had a parade permit. Do they bother with that any more? I wonder if Soros was providing as much financial backing back then?

Sometimes Freepers would stage a counter demonstration, abiding by all laws as to permitted group size, location, etc. Some cities don't even seem to have any relevant laws any more, except, probably, if any conservatives decide to do anything the (usually) Dem mayor deemed a problem.

[Intolerant in NJ]

The marchers - including a few hundred activists...always amusing when "a few hundred" protestors get so much attention from the press, as though that number in a metropolitan area of millions meant anything at all - for years I worked in a psychiatric hospital with eight hundred patients - there are plenty of irrational, emotionally unstable, reality-challenged individuals around us all the time - that a bunch of them manage to find each other for an occasional bout of spontaneous group therapy isn't particularly noteworthy....