{"id":300947,"date":"2026-05-05T15:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/300947\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T15:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:43:11","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-protesting-at-this-time-in-america-is-well-worth-the-time-and-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/300947\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor: Protesting at this time in America is well worth the time and effort"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To the editor: On Friday, as I was riding my bicycle along Santa Monica Boulevard just east of Highland Avenue, I passed a group of about two dozen protesters in front of the Tesla Diner restaurant (it was news to me that Tesla actually has a restaurant, in addition to its famous car dealerships).<\/p>\n<p>Having been feeling a bit guilty about not joining a May Day protest somewhere around town that afternoon, I was happy to spend some time standing with the Tesla Diner protesters (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-05-01\/la-may-day-rallies-protest-immigration-sweeps-cost-of-living\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThousands rally in L.A. for May Day to protest immigration sweeps, high cost of living,\u201d<\/a> May 1). They told me they show up on the front sidewalk every Friday and Saturday evening to discourage people from eating there. I noticed there weren\u2019t many people sitting inside at the time.<\/p>\n<p>I think everyone turning out anywhere in America, protesting the wrongs we see so much of today in our country, is well worth their time and effort.<\/p>\n<p>Doug Weiskopf, Burbank<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: On Friday, as I was riding my bicycle along Santa Monica Boulevard just east of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7625,127253,2072,4416,2424,15722,67847,70067,2303,48,52,51,1838,47,50,49,127251,592,127252,11297,315],"class_list":["post-300947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-america","tag-dozen-protester","tag-editor","tag-effort","tag-friday","tag-front","tag-high-cost","tag-immigration-sweep","tag-l-a","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-letter","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-may-day-protest","tag-people","tag-tesla-diner-restaurant","tag-thousand-rally","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}