The Chickens and the City Council of San Juan Bautista

Should we obey all the laws of our land? What if a law is trivial, oppressive, or just plain wrong? What should we do about it? In 1775, George Washington supported a boycott of British products and began the American Revolution. In 1915, Irish immigrants found jobs in spite of the unwritten law which said, “No Irish Need Apply.” In 1958, Rosa Parks, a black woman, would not give up her seat on a bus to a white man, and desegregation began. In 2006, the City Council of San Juan...
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Should we obey all the laws of our land? What if a law is trivial, oppressive, or just plain wrong? What should we do about it? In 1775, George Washington supported a boycott of British products and began the American Revolution. In 1915, Irish immigrants found jobs in spite of the unwritten law which said, “No Irish Need Apply.” In 1958, Rosa Parks, a black woman, would not give up her seat on a bus to a white man, and desegregation began. In 2006, the City Council of San Juan Bautista, California, passed a law forbidding people to feed wild chickens. A tourist from Maine and a rooster named SIR decide that the City Council's law is trivial, oppressive, and just plain wrong. In an act of civil disobedience, they band together to disobey the City Council's law and get their food and the City's tourists back again. This book is their story.