So - you say you been lusting after those neat-o palm trees at the protests, but you don't have the cash, or can't find one?
Make your own!
My wife mentioned this to me today, and we'd both forgotten that at one time we both knew how to make palm trees out of newspaper - but I had to go searching on the web to remind myself how to do it
Here ya go, thanks to ehow.com
http://www.ehow.com/how_4855236_make-palm-tree-out-newspaper.html