At the moment, I'd say oil prices are more strongly connected with the protests and in particular Gadaffi's refusal to step down.

For Morris to protest he didn't know what was happening now...it's a classic Big Lie....in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.Adolf Hitler

Kathy Castor tried to talk about health care reforms, protesters started screaming and booing, drowning her out."

I don't remember Conservatives protesting before....

During the Vietnam conflict, Americans took to the streets in protest and eventually helped stop the war.

Protesters gathered outside a Chicago area hotel Sunday as an Islamic extremist group reportedly linked to Al Qaeda held its first official conference on U.S. soil in an attempt to step up Western recruitment efforts.

I think it should be mandatory listening for the idiots at the "Occupy" protests across the country.

We should be out in the streets protesting the printing of the money that is raising the taxes.

My prediction is that this wealth gap will grow further in the next two years, but if our economy tanks again, or we hit real inflation, you can expect social unrest, cause I sense a sh*t-storm brewing from my vantage point here in SF, with all the protests about middle class people getting priced out.

and of course down town between blm protests that got hijacked by Antifa thugs its a ghost town. 3 weeks ago I was in PHilly and Baltimore there was more going on there than PDX by a long shot I suspect the residence there in the inner cities dont really have the options as many in the PDX market might have to find alternate work space and living.