A Prologue to Protest

By Matthew Korfhage
In Defense of Animals protest 1
Portland Animal Defense League
Oregon National Primate Research Center
Oregon Health & Science University
fairly
widely
reported
About 30 protesters holding the same signs and unfurled banner gathered in front of the home of OHSU researcher Kathy Grant's home on Southeast Division Street.
he overall effect was that of an itinerant school group who just happened to be sporting anarchy patches and vegan-positive T-shirts.
In Defense of Animals protest 3
even a cursory websearch
on this mostly lonely block, in front of an empty house, with its only real audience a pack of lookie-loos from a full-on pig roast down the street, the kids all still looked pretty happy to be there.
Pig Roast in Southeast Portland

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