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# SMC students mount protest
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/smc-students-mount-protest/
- Published: 2004-09-29T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T05:14:14.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Education, Pico, #archive-import

*NO PLO, from page 1 Store owner stands defiant*

*By GENEVA WHITMARSH Daily Press Staff Writer*

PICO BLVD. — A group of about 200 Santa Monica College students and faculty made their feelings known Tuesday, protesting against a local shop owner who displays several anti-Palestinian signs in her window.

One of the signs reads: “Palestinians are pigs... murderous scum pigs.”

The group, organized by SMC’s Progressive Alliance, met at the SMC clocktower, then marched less than a mile down Pico Boulevard to All Phone Wholesale at 2919 Pico Blvd. The group chanted and waved protest signs during the march.

“Down the street — right in our community — there were a lot of racist comments being made about Palestinians,” said march organizer Salvador Sanchez y Strawbridge. “It’s straight-out racism, and we don’t stand for that.”

Store owner Bunnie Meyers said she was unfazed by the protest.

“It was a bunch of college kids that don’t have a clue about what reality is yelling and screaming,” she said. “I yelled at them through the window a couple times. I’m sure I was calling them ‘pigs,’ and they deserve it.

“People protesting (the signs) are just as guilty as the people blowing up buses.”

Meyers has been in business for six years and said she has had the signs in the window for the past three.

“Lots and lots of people walk by, knock on the window and give me the thumbs up,” she said. “There’s only been two people who’ve complained.”

Progressive Alliance’s Web site states: “We demand All Phone Wholesale 1) remove all the racist signs from the store-front; 2) issue a public apology to all Muslims, Arabs, Persians and others of Middle Eastern descent, including immigrants, workers, women and anyone else who may have been threatened by the racist language plastered on the storefront.”

Sanchez y Strawbridge said the group is planning another protest in two to three weeks if the signs aren’t removed.

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to the Daily Press Bunnie Meyers, the owner of All Phone Wholesale on Pico Boulevard, resoundingly answers her critics on Tuesday afternoon. (Photo: Crill Hansen/Special)

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(Photo: Crill Hansen/Special)

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 29, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/092904.pdf?ref=smdp.com)