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One of the organizers of Portland City Hall’s nearly 18-month-old camping-ban protest, poet and activist Kernel Loose-Nut, is looking to mark Tuesday’s fluoride shellacking with a themed party meant to tweak fluoride supporters here and across the country who made it clear they considered (victorious) fluoride foes a bunch of conspiratorial kooks and science deniers.

Starting at 6 tonight, outside city hall, the Kernel is throwing what he’s calling a “Tin-Foil Hat Parade.” I received an invite on Facebook, along with a few hundred other people. And as for what the “parade” entails? It’s exactly that, with a fashion show and craft party thrown in.

Here’s the Kernel’s rough itinerary:

6-7 design and build
7-8 foil fashion show
8-9 parade and libations

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Denis C. Theriault is the Portland Mercury's News Editor. He writes stories about City Hall and the Portland Police Bureau, focusing on issues like homelessness, police oversight, insider politics, and...

10 replies on ““Tin-Foil Hat Parade,” at City Hall Tonight, Celebrates Fluoride Defeat”

  2. WELL, WHEN YOU DON’T HAVE A FASCIST, PUBLIC-WORKS-FOCUSED INJUSTICE TO FIGHT AGAINST, WHAT ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO DO WITH YOUR TIME?

  4. Man, were people ever taking this really REALLY seriously. I can’t wait to hear the broader campaign roll out to get fluoride out of every other city’s water supply.

    Because surely if you believe that most of the country is being poisoned by their water, and our environment is being laced with deadly chemicals you would have to carry on and do something about it.

    Surely, this wasn’t just a parochial tantrum thrown by the usual Keep-Portland-Weirdos who can’t see past 82nd Avenue, right? So what’s the broader plan, brave eco-warriors?

    Oh, it’s to head to City Hall to make hats out of tinfoil and prance around gloating for a few minutes before you are rained out. And that is what is called “solving a serious problem” in Portland.

  5. People celebrating an election victory. Very unusual. Almost unheard of. Must be (how did your Twitter tease for this post put it?) a “gloat train choo-choo[ing] on.”

  6. Yay, we kept public health on the back burner for a fourth time! Let’s show off how much we hate public health and budget efficiency by flaunting the power of our collective willful ignorance at city hall, where the council tried to do the right thing for us all without our permission! Let this be a lesson to our elected officials – we don’t actually want them to make decisions for our city!

  7. Let it die already Mercury, you really do not look funny or clever beating a dead horse. Surely you at least have other things to cover Denis?

  8. Aw, c’mon, you guys. I just like the Kernel. And I think the theme is a genuinely good poke in the eye to everyone who wrongly generalized about one side or the other.

    Inasmuch as it’s unkind to say that all opponents are stupid and nuts, it’s also unkind to say all proponents are stupid and evil.

    Also? The statute of limitations on an election never runs out two days after. Never ever. Hugs and kisses.

  9. I’m just shocked no links in the comment section yet. Pretty poor follow-through, anti-F crowd.

    I like you, Blabby. Just felt like saying that.

  10. If you’re going:

    Clear Spring Grain Alcohol available from the 9th/Lovejoy OLCC store (open until 10!) = $14.95 for a 750mL bottle.

    Rainwater – currently free from the sky.

    General Jack D. Ripper would be proud.

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