On Saturday, June 14, 2014, Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) at UC Irvine held a respectful, yet firm protest against President Obama at Angel’s Stadium in Anaheim, CA. In demonstrating the failed policies set forth by the President’s administration, YAL in homage to the manners and tactics laid out by Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, ridicule, irony, and sarcasm played a key role for effective activism.
More than 45,000 attendees were present at Angel’s Stadium in Anaheim — where thousands of schedules, lampooning the President were distributed with special thanks to the Leadership Institute and from the generous support from donors like you.
Graduates are cursed with a bleak future. And to add insult to injury, they are about to witness a President to remind them of who created and continued this mess by spending our future away while neglecting to protect our liberties in the process. It has essentially been a war on the youth.
At the current statistic, about only 47% of graduates are able to find a job within their preferred field with over $1.2 trillion in student debt. Debt payments are merely extended and collected with interest at longer periods, despite the President’s Executive Order to cap payments at about 10% of income.
Graduates eager to receive a free programming schedule
Reactions to the protest were generally well received as UCI YAL passed through security that other protesters couldn’t access, even passing through the hired extra help from the TSA!
At many times, many attendees were eager to see the President speak and were excited to receive our mock schedule or take a picture of our giant President Obama Fathead — only to later be offended by the content of the programs. A few guests even crumpled up some of our programs only to throw them at our face!
Some guests eager to receive our mock-flyers and excited to take a picture with us.
Only later to be offended by our actions, like this faculty member.
Some guests actually enjoyed the content of what we had in our programs, however!
Tibetan Buddhist Monks even enjoyed our flyers, liking YAL’s message of peace and prosperity!
Police were very open to our protest, some even gladly getting our flyers and laughed out loud when they read the piece!
Moreover, YAL even made waves — even gathering support from the Orange County Republican Party, one of the most influential parties in the nation!
KTLA Channel 5’s Kimberly Cheng even gave us a shout-out and coverage for interview. Sadly however, we did not make the cut. We did, however get coverage from Breitbart.com, OC Weekly, among many others and so on.
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