Ludacris was forced to talk about our protest. Therefore, we believe, it was a success. The stories in the OC Weekly and Daily 49er have yet to hit the newsstands, but the District Weekly has already posted up their live blog of the event. The tickets sold presale were about 1500 though the Walter Pyramid seats 4500, according to an article in the Daily 49er earlier this week. Though some tickets were sold at the door, we are unsure at this time of how many. We had about 20 people total throughout the night, but a steady 15 were there at the same time most of the evening. This was a decent amount in order to hold our signs in view of the people in line, though we were basically caged off to the side in what was labeled the “free speech area”. One protester commented that having a free speech area behind a wall was ironic.

Throughout the evening (from about 7:15 to 10:45) a few of us went on Hole Mole runs and there was a potato taco feast of sorts. The signs read sayings such as “(562) No Hoe’s in this area code”, “Women’s bodies are not Moneymakers”, and “Homophobia is a disease” and when asked why we were there, we had a leaflet ready to provide explaining that “we believe strongly in the right to free speech; we're not trying to shut down the concert. But we also believe in activism and education as a means to bring about a more just and egalitarian society.”