[brytlea]

For the most part, I suspect the kids see this less as a protest and more as a fun way to miss school and hang out with their friends.
susie

[LNewman]

After blacking out all coverage of their proceedings the rest of the month, the Senate Judicary Committee is now allowing C-SPAN to cablecast their proceedings today as they try to pass a giant foreign worker bill.

You can see it right now on C-SPAN 1 TV.

If your computer can handle live feeds, you should also be able to see it through the internet by going to:

http://www.c-span.org/watch/cspan_rm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS

[weegee]

I saw Caesar Chavez speak one time (and one time only). He was urging a table grape boycott. It was a union led boycott over medical benefits and pay.

He played it up as a pesticides issue. When concerned college students asked if they needed to also be wary of eating California raisins or drinking California wines, he said no because that was a different union.

So much for the health of the workers or the consumers. I saw him as a big fraud and typical leftist.

He was compared to MLK Jr. but I don't see the similarity (although MLK also had his movement co-opted to address economics at the end of his life).

[Churchillspirit]

When interviewed by CNN, one truant asked Who is Cesar Chavez?

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Well, if their consequences for missing school are the same as the consequences for being here illegally...then they should enjoy their day off.

[stopem]

"Waving Mexico flags and wearing white T-shirts denoting peace, several hundred high school students walked out of class Monday as protests against an immigration crackdown continued on California's Cesar Chavez Day.

Who the H*ll is cesar chavez?

California has the largest bunch of mexican flag waving illegals and they should all be locked up and deported immediately. The brats who are doing what their parents do should be EXPELLED from school IMMEDIATELY!

[Utahrd]

Asians (especially those that obey our laws & follow our immigration procedures) have a hard time with our immigration bureacracy.

Do you think any Asian kids are skipping calculus, physics and AP English to demonstrate?

Hee, hee, hee, hee!

[Mikey_1962]

Waiving Mexican Flags:

That's a real good way to get grass roots support. What morons!

[wizardoz]

My middle school (King Middle School) in Los Feliz is on lockdown right now. A group of maybe 150 students from nearby Marshall High just went by chanting "King Walk Out!" Some of the students have shirts wrapped around their faces so they look like terrorists. They are being escorted by several teachers who undoubtedly encouraged this and are delighted to have teenage foot soldiers in their shining moment of self-righteous political self-aggrandizing posturing.

Ironic that they wave Mexican flags. They come to the US to try and make the US more like the Mexico that sucks so much they left it. Why not stay and make Mexico more like the US? Oh, that would require more effort than a one-day party in the streets, I guess.

[Travis McGee]

Here comes Guerra Civil Dos.

[BurbankKarl]

Its up to the twenties of thousands now...there was a large fight at Hollywood High about 20 minutes ago....

[shekkian]

Well, they can all get themselves suspended for all I care.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

No wonder folks are leaving California.

[LS]

I wonder how long the "peace" would last if the proper immigration bills were passed?

[poobear]

"Similar school walkouts were held around the state Friday and were followed by a rally at Los Angeles City Hall that drew an estimated 500,000 people one of the largest demonstrations ever held in the city."

After a view of the half million march broadcast on the Internet and everywhere else, I kept thinking we may have missed an opportunity here. Can you imagine 500,000 gringos protesting in Mexico City demanding rights, health care and waving American flags?

crickets chirping......

[airborne]

Typical reaction of high school kids.

Any chance to get out of class.

[Ben Mugged]

Liberal teachers are goading the kids on to become soldiers in the teachers fight for socialism.

[cripplecreek]

Ceasar Chavez was a socialist but even he saw that illegal immigration would drive wages down for those who obeyed the law. Chavez would want to kick these punks butts.

[Little Ray]

This is wonderful. Find out who left and don't let 'em come back.

[Dick Vomer]

nice excuse to skip school... they're not being educated anyway.

ask the "protesters" what the "rule of law" means or if we're a democracy or a republic?

90% are so stupid they can't tell the difference.