Latinos Plan Nationwide Worker Strike

NewsMAx ^ | March 30, 2006 | Carl Limbacher

[Icelander]

Hispanic groups in the U.S. are planning a major boycott of American life dubbed a ”day without Latinos” to protest proposed legislation that would criminalize illegal immigration.

Mexican American Political Association (MAPA) President Nativo Lopez, one of the organizers of the recent protests in Los Angeles that saw at least 500,000 people take to the streets, said the May 1 "day without Latinos” would send a stern message to Washington.

"We are looking forward to a major action in all large U.S. cities where immigrants make up a significant proportion of the workforce,” Lopez told Agence France-Presse.

"We are asking people not to go to school, or work, or shopping, and instead to go out and protest against the racist and inhumane measures in this bill.”

MAPA and other grass roots Latino groups are also organizing an April 10 protest in 20 major American cities – including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Dallas – in a bid to defeat the proposed immigration reform bill, Lopez said.

And a third day of protest is scheduled to take place Saturday in Costa Mesa, a town in Orange County, Calif., that has been a focus of anti-illegal immigrant protests for the past several months.

The city’s mayor has pushed a proposal through the city council to train police to nab and deport illegal aliens who commit crimes.

Said Lopez: "We are going there to make a tough statement right in the bedrock of the anti-immigrant movement.”

Perhaps not surprisingly, May 1 is also known as "May Day," the International Worker's Day, which is infamously celebrated in Moscow's Red Square and by communists and socialists throughout the world.

[trubluolyguy]

Hispanic groups in the U.S. are planning a major boycott of American life dubbed a ”day without Latinos” to protest proposed legislation that would criminalize illegal immigration.

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Thank God. Maybe we can have a "country without Illegals" next.

[lormand]

I cut my own grass and cook my own food. No problems.

[lowbridge]

bump

[fhlh]

Cinco = 5
Mayo = May

figure it out :)

[princess leah]

Round them up on May 1st and put them on a plane, NOT to Mexico, but Iraq and see how it feels to be an illegal immigrant THEN!

[Alberta's Child]

Ping.

[FreedomSurge]

The break up of the United States continues. Twenty years before there is a quasi independent republic in Southern California.

[Tzimisce]

Presently all across the southern United States Illegal immigrants (mostly from Mexico) are marching. They are demanding the rights granted to any citizen of the United States. These rights are fundmental to our system of government and solidified in our laws.

But these people are illegal setting up a dichotomy of selective enforcement. They are asking that the laws that favor them be applied while the laws that don't favor them be ignored. These people want to have access to welfare and social security, but they don't want to go through the legal process of citizenship. They want to send their children to our schools, but they don't think they should have to pay taxes to support those schools. They want to be able to drive and vote, but they don't want to learn english to read any of the documents that go with those things.

Well I believe that the law should either be enforced or changed - including the ones we don't like.

[houeto]

Storm clouds a'brewin'...

[keymaster]

Gee, maybe I'll actually be able to get some work that day. Here on Long Island your average Mexican is doing a hellava lot more then cutting lawns. I am an electrician that is having trouble getting a job. Thank God my wife has a decent job. In the next 3 years we will be moving to NC.

[Icelander]

Aztlan Arising: 700,000+ March in Los Angeles

 

"La Gran Marcha" surpasses all expectations

by
Ernesto Cienfuegos
La Voz de Aztlan

LA GRAN MARCHA- March 25, 2006 -In foreground is LA City Hall.

Los Angeles, Alta California - March 26, 2006 - (ACN) Yesterday's march and rally for immigrant rights in downtown Los Angeles is the largest in the city's history. Never has the "City of Angels" seen so many demonstrators filling the streets of the city's center. The sleeping giant has finally awaken giving rise to a new immigrant civil rights movement of unprecedented proportions.

The leadership of the various participating groups demonstrated extraordinary organizational skills. Much credit goes to the over 700,000 marchers, that included entire families, for their superb orderly behavior. There was not one act of violence even though the vile "Minutemen Vigilantes" had made threats against "La Gran Marcha" on their websites.

The size of the pro-immigrant march and rally surprised the world and the nation. A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department made a statement on Thursday, to the local media, that they expected between 10,000 to 15,000 to participate in the march. What a surprise they received on Saturday! The LAPD is now reporting that over 500,000 participated but the true number is actually over 700,000. AnswerLA.org, an organization with a lot of experience in organizing mass marches and rallies, estimate that over 1 million participated. The Aztlan Research Institute, however, utilizing sophisticated crowd counting methodologies, estimates a figure of over 700,000.

Seventeen year old Anabel Chavarria reflects the exuberance felt by the marchers

What does the immense success of "La Gran Marcha" mean to Mexicanos and other Latinos? It simply means that we now have the numbers, the political will and the organizational skills to direct our own destinies and not be subservient to the White and Jewish power structures. It means that we can now undertake bigger and more significant mass actions to achieve total political and economic liberation like that being proposed by Juan José Gutiérrez, President of Movimiento Latino USA. Juan José Gutiérrez is proposing that the coalition that organized "La Gran Marcha" meet in Arizona or Texas on April 8 to "organize a mass boycott (huelga) against the economy of the USA" to take place on May 5 or 19.

A major reason for the great success of "La Gran Marcha" was the strong participation of labor unions and the Catholic Church. This same alliance contributed to the success of Lech Walesa's "Solidarity Movement" in the Republic of Poland. This can be done in Aztlan as well. If the racist "Sensenbrenner Legislation" passes the US Senate, there is no doubt that a massive civil disobedience movement will emerge. Eventually labor union power can merge with the immigrant civil rights and "Immigrant Sanctuary" movements to enable us to either form a new political party or to do heavy duty reforming of the existing Democratic Party. The next and final steps would follow and that is to elect our own governors of all the states within Aztlan.

Thousands of students walkout of LAUSD high schools on Friday March 24.

The great success of "La Gran Marcha" also means that the time has come to organize and politicize our great number of youths that are just festering in many of our school districts. The walkouts in Los Angeles of thousands of Mexican and Latino students from Huntington Park, South Gate, Southeast, Jordan, Montebello, Garfield and Roosevelt High Schools on Friday, one day before "La Gran Marcha", only shows that they are now ready to be mobilized and advised on how they can improve their educations. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villagairosa, a Los Angeles Unified School District victim himself before he turned his life around, is already undertaking a bold moved to wrestle control of the district from a Jewish dominated school board and a White superintendent that are just fleecing the schools of much needed funds. School board Jews like Julie Korenstein, Marlene Canter, David Tokofsky, Jon Lauritzen and Mike Lansing are just enriching themselves and their cronies through crooked deals involving school construction projects, and contracts with so called consultants and vendors. The LAUSD is the second largest in the nation, next to New York, with a multi-billion dollar annual budget. It has an overwhelming Mexican and Latino student population. Jews have their own private schools so why are 5 Jews out of 7 school board members interested in governing the school district? The answer is all too obvious. La Voz de Aztlan has interviewed LAUSD teachers that complained that they have to buy, with their own money, pencils, paper and other school supplies that the district should provide. Something has to be done and Mayor Villaraigosa is on the right track

We thank the many marchers for the sacrifice they made on Saturday. Many came from as far as San Diego and San Francisco. They came in on buses, trains, trucks, RV's , motorcycles and autos. Some came the night before and slept in their vehicles. Entire families arrived from Fresno, San Jose and Coachella. One family of eight included a grandmother, father, mother, daughters, and sons. One section in the march consisted of at least 20 on wheel chairs. They all came to Los Angeles and made history. This great city will never be the same!

 

"Aqui estamos y no nos vamos y si nos devuelven. . . regresamos!"

[AuH2ORepublican]

I would think that Christmas, Good Friday and Easter would all be bigger than May Day in Mexico.

[savedbygrace]

So they're French? Who knew?

[randog]

No Mexican workers for one day? Who's gonna cook my chinese food?

[D.P.Roberts]

Ridiculous! If workers don't show up, they'll be fired and new ones hired the next day. They know this.

[houeto]

So, the proposed legislation will criminalize what is already illegal.

It's being spewn across the floor of the Senate, time and again, even as we speak. Just turn on CSPAN.

[cripplecreek]

700,000+

I see they've added a couple of hundred thousand and left room for a few more. Maybe they should slip totally into the absurd and claim a gazillion. LOL

[truth_seeker]

Nativo Lopez wa voted off the school board, in Santa Ana, CA. Wise voters got rid of him.

Santa Ana has about the highest percent hispanic population, of cities in the US (70+ percent).

Nativo Lopez is a troublemaker, not a problem solver. Here he is telling the kids to not go to school.

Hispanic kids drop out of school, so they do not need a civic "leader" to encourage truancy.

[antceecee]

I heard on talk radio the other day (I think I was listening to Medved) that they keep overestimating the size of this crowd. Police helocopter units estimated the crows at approx. 200,000.
They said someone on a microphone said the crowd was 500,000 and the media ran with it. Typical media of today, they do not give a dang for accuracy.
Now they are inflating to 700,00! Amazing.

[BurbankKarl]

No, but it will be a great day to do some criminal activity. Just ask anyone who was victimized the last week in Los Angeles, like the two women attacked on the subway because resources have been pulled to curtail these "protests"