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Title: Immigrant boycott aims to "close" US cities
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Yahoo! News
URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060427 ... u=X3oDMTA3MXN1bHE0BHNlYwN0bWE-
Published: Apr 27, 2006
Author: By Dan Whitcomb
Post Date: 2006-04-27 12:18:04 by Zipporah
Keywords: None
Views: 233
Comments: 13
1 hour, 46 minutes ago Pro-immigration activists say a nationwide boycott and marches planned for May 1 will flood Americas's streets with millions of Latinos to demand amnesty for illegal immigrants and shake the ground under Congress as it tackles reform. But while such a massive turnout could make for the largest protests since the civil rights era of the 1960s, not all Latinos, nor their leaders, were comfortable with such militancy -- fearing a backlash in Middle America. "There will be 2 to 3 million people hitting the streets in Los Angeles alone. We're going to close down Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Tucson, Phoenix, Fresno," said Jorge Rodriguez, a union official who helped organize earlier rallies credited with rattling Congress as it debates the issue. Immigration has split Congress, the Republican Party and public opinion. Conservatives want the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants to be classified as felons and a fence built along the Mexican border. Others, including President George W. Bush, want a guest worker program and a path to citizenship. Most agree some reform is needed to stem the flow of poor to the world's biggest economy. "We want full amnesty, full legalization for anybody who is here (illegally)," Rodriguez said. "That is the message that is going to be played out across the country on May 1." Organizers of the May Day marches, which have strong support from big labor and the Roman Catholic church, vow that America's major cities will grind to a halt and its economy will stagger as Latinos walk off their jobs and skip school. Teachers' unions in major cities have said children should not be punished for walking out of class. A spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Unified School District said school principals had been told that they should not try to keep students in class but instead should walk with the children to help keep order. In Chicago, Catholic priests have helped organize protests, sending information to all 375 parishes in the archdiocese. CRITICS CHARGE INTIMIDATION Chicago activists predict that the demonstrations will draw 300,000 people -- compared to the 100,000 who turned out on March 10 to clog downtown streets. Minneapolis-based agribusiness giant Cargill Inc. said it will close seven meatpacking plants so workers can participate. In New York, leaders of the May 1 Coalition said a growing number of businesses had pledged to close and allow their workers to attend a rally in Manhattan's Union Square. But some Latinos have expressed ambivalence about the boycott and marches, saying they could stir up anti-immigrant sentiment amid an incendiary atmosphere surrounding the issue. Cardinal Roger Mahony of the Los Angeles archdiocese, who has emerged as an outspoken champion of immigrant rights -- even calling on priests to defy laws aimed at those who would help illegals -- has lobbied against a walkout. "Personally I believe we can make May 1st a 'win-win' day here in Southern California," Mahony said in a statement. "Go to work, go to school, and then join thousands of us at a major rally afterward." Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, the son of a Mexican immigrant who has long fought for immigrant rights, has taken a low profile on the issue. A Villaraigosa spokeswoman said the mayor expects protesters to be "lawful and respectful" and wants children to stay in school. Critics have accused pro-immigrant leaders of stirring up uninformed young Latinos by telling them that their parents were in imminent danger of being deported and accuse them of trying to bully Congress. "It's intimidation," Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman volunteer border patrol group, said of the May 1 events. "It's intimidation when a million people march down main streets in our major cities under the Mexican flag." "It angers the people you are trying to impress," he said. "This will backfire just like the Mexican flag parades backfired." (Additional reporting by Aarthi Sivaraman in Los Angeles, Dan Trotta in New York and Michael Conlon in Chicago)
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#1. To: Zipporah (#0)
Promise?
LOL!
"The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion." Frederick Douglass
I would like to see a white(because you are themajority) and other native born citizens boycott of taxes, as well as the economy for one day, and send a message to DC. Let's see who depends on who.
Sadly, they left out Washington D.C. That's my revolutionary plan: Make D.C. Amnesty Central, and let nature take its course. Hopefully some apparatchiks would be caught in the crossfire.
Exactly!!! Whose paying for their health insurance, to educate their kids.. their housing?? WE ARE!!!
"The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion." Frederick Douglass
That's my revolutionary plan: Make D.C. Amnesty Central, and let nature take its course. Hopefully some apparatchiks would be caught in the crossfire. Hey that sounds like a plan.. maybe we can start a rumor that DC is actually Atzlan.. ?? ;P
"The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion." Frederick Douglass
The effort meets all the terms of "terrorism," add the variants of "conspiracy" and racketeering; did I mention "extortion?" And, what does anyone expect Herr Gonzales to say on the matter?
And, what does anyone expect Herr Gonzales to say on the matter? You're right!!! Hmmm what will Gonzales say?? THEY'RE MY PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!?
"The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion." Frederick Douglass
Some of you have brains, eh?? LOL. If you didn't already realize this, you're about to...
"We're going to close down Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Tucson, Phoenix, Fresno," said Jorge Rodriguez
"Both the loss of the will to define and defend one’s native soil and the loss of the desire to procreate send an alluring signal to the teeming favellas and kazbahs: Come, for no Western nation has the guts to shed blood - alien or its own - in the name of its own survival."
-- Srdja Trifkovic
#2. To: Tauzero (#1)
Promise?
#3. To: Zipporah (#0)
#4. To: Zipporah (#2)
"Both the loss of the will to define and defend one’s native soil and the loss of the desire to procreate send an alluring signal to the teeming favellas and kazbahs: Come, for no Western nation has the guts to shed blood - alien or its own - in the name of its own survival."
-- Srdja Trifkovic
#5. To: The 7th MJS2U2 (#3)
I would like to see a white(because you are themajority) and other native born citizens boycott of taxes, as well as the economy for one day, and send a message to DC. Let's see who depends on who.
#6. To: Tauzero (#4)
Sadly, they left out Washington D.C.
#7. To: Zipporah, Christine, robin, Zoroaster, BTP Holdings, Arator, Bayonne, Brian S, A K A Stone, Steppenwolf, Bub, mugwort, bluegrass, Bill D Berger, FormerLurker, Uncle Bill, Dakmar, Flintlock, Neil McIver, tom007, aristeides, Burkeman1, Diana, (#0)
#8. To: SKYDRIFTER (#7)
The effort meets all the terms of "terrorism," add the variants of "conspiracy" and racketeering; did I mention "extortion?"
#9. To: Zipporah (#0)
not all Latinos, nor their leaders, were comfortable with such militancy -- fearing a backlash in Middle America.
#10. To: Tauzero (#4)
Wouldn't do to inconvenience those who are about to implement L'Amnestia.
Washington D.C.
#11. To: Zipporah, Christine, robin, Zoroaster, BTP Holdings, Arator, Bayonne, Brian S, A K A Stone, Steppenwolf, Bub, mugwort, bluegrass, Bill D Berger, FormerLurker, Uncle Bill, Dakmar, Flintlock, Neil McIver, tom007, aristeides, Burkeman1, Diana, (#8)
It's as good a time as any to draw the proverbial lines in the sand. If they are such an asset to America; they have a strange way of showing it. It will be interesting. If it goes too far, it may shift the attitude on immigrants, period. That work's for me. Letting the barbarians through the gate, so as to be "nice," is a self- inflicted wound. My condo complex is being re-roofed by a bunch of Mexicans; I'll report the result of uno de Mayo.
#12. To: Zipporah (#0)
You forgot Boston...please shut down Boston!!!
"There will be 2 to 3 million people hitting the streets in Los Angeles alone. We're going to close down Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Tucson, Phoenix, Fresno," said Jorge Rodriguez, a union official who helped organize earlier rallies credited with rattling Congress as it debates the issue.
#13. To: who knows what evil (#12)
No tea party planned..
You forgot Boston...please shut down Boston!!!
"The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion." Frederick Douglass
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