For college football fans, the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA is sacred ground. The Granddady of the college football tournament games, it has been played every year since 1902. The accompanying parade, the Rose Parade, predates the game, dating way back to 1890. Its a tradition that normally goes off without a hitchthat is, until this year, when Occupy the Rose Parade has decided to disrupt the festivities.
Peter Thottam, right
Led by Peter Thottam, who we will return to in a moment, the Occupy the Rose Parade activists will follow the long parade with their own demonstration. It wont be the first time that Thottam has tried to disrupt the parade.
In 2008, healong with supporters from the Los Angeles National Impeachment Centerworked with Cindy Sheehan, Code Pink, and Iraq Veterans Against the War to try to make a statement about impeaching Bush and Cheney.
But this year, Thottam obtained approval for a protest to follow the parade. At the parades conclusion, his group plans to pilot an Octupy Octupus, a puppet made from recycled plastic bags and bamboo that takes 40 people to operate. The organizers say that the puppet symbolizes Wall Streets tentacles, strangling American politics.
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