The Michigan state Capitol has a rich history of playing host to a long list of protest demonstrations including one recently featuring about 4,000 road builders demanding a new road fix package.
More on that after this. Here are some of the history making events on the front lawn.
After the MSU students, majoring in burning down buildings 101, demonstrated their prowess on the ROTC Dem Hall on campus to protest the Vietnam carnage, many of them turned to a more peaceful and acceptable form of protest. Upwards of 10,000 marched from the Red Cedar river, down Michigan Ave some six miles or so to let lawmakers know they wanted the war to end. The Social Study majors in the crowd knew state lawmakers were powerless to do squat about that other than to pass a meaningless resolution urging the Congress to do something. Such a gesture was not worth the paper it was written on.
