Anti-fur protesters appear to have put the final nail in the coffin of Portland, Oregon's Schumacher Furs:
An embattled Portland fur retailer is closing his 112-year-old family business for good.In this quote, the article makes it sound like protesters actually harassed and intimidated Mr. Schumacher, but it's clear later in the article that the city's stance on the matter is that protesters did not in fact cross any legal boundaries in their free speech-protected demonstrations on public property outside the store.
Greg Schumacher, of Schumacher Furs, moved out of their downtown Portland store after citing protesters’ harassment and intimidation.
The store was set to move to the Bridgeport Village shopping Center -- but Schumacher said Monday another anti-fur campaign against that mall resulted in several cancellations and that the store had no where to relocate.
I'm curious to see whether this successfully-waged weekly demonstration against a fur store will be repeated again in the near future. Of course, if we could convince people to stop wearing the skin of other animals, these stores wouldn't have any customers.
