Frank Chu
Eccentric "protestor" of San Francisco
Frank Chu (born March 24, 1960) is an American eccentric and conspiracy theorist. Since at least 1999, Chu has been campaigning to impeach an array of former U.S. Presidents he considers guilty of collaborating with a nefarious network of alien populations called the "12 Galaxies" to film him against his will, to broadcast this footage intergalactically, and to embezzle the royalties he is owed as a television and movie star. Chu lives in Chinatown, Oakland, and commutes daily to San Francisco and nearby locales in order to reach the largest audience of passers-by and television news crews for his street protests about this labor dispute. He produces a new sign weekly and supports himself through sign sponsorships and small donations from his supporters and with help from his family.
Before his protests
Chu is from San Francisco. According to Chu, before he started protesting, he worked as an accountant, attended UC Berkeley, and earned an associate degree in business administration from California State University, Hayward.
Performance/protest technique
Frank Chu protests daily, or nearly daily, typically walking throughout the daytime hours in downtown San Francisco (particularly along Market Street and Montgomery Street) holding one of his serial protest signs, on which he displays codified rows of text in his characteristic lexicon. He does not shout or cause a noisy disturbance. He always wears wrap-around sunglasses, often wears a suit and tie, or a sports coat and dress shirt. If engaged, Chu supplements the public presentation of his signs with spoken remarks about their terminology, about his campaign to reveal his exploitation as an intergalactic television and movie star and to be compensated financially, and about his recent news coverage.
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