La Raza Unida Nunca Sera Vencida
Put forth on March 11, 2006 by XicanoPwr
Posted in Civil Rights, Immigration, Immigration Debate, Raza
That was from yesterdays rally where 100,000 pro-immigration supporters marched into downtown Chicago to show their support for immigrant rights.
“Raise those American flags!” shouted U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, a Democrat. “This is our country, and this is where we will stay.”
So to all Hatin’ Xenophobic, Jingoistic, Racist, Rat Bastards get over yourselves!!
The sleeping giant has awakened! Hoy Marchamos! Manana Votamos!
[Update: More information on the march.]
From the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.
But that is not the only place a march has taken place. The article goes one to mention other marches.
- Last week 5,000 Mexicans gathered in Oregon;
- March 6, some 30,000 Latinos from the Washington, D.C.
It seems those numbers I quoted from the AP is underestimated. Chicago Police estimated the crowd at 300,000!!!
As CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine reports, the protesters — of Polish, Irish, Latino, Chinese and many other nationalities — gathered at Union Park, at Ashland Avenue and Lake Street, and marched to the Loop. From the air, it appeared to be an endless sea of demonstrators, flooding the streets to protest the recently-passed house bill, which would make it a crime to hire or even help undocumented immigrants.
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This is the blog of Edmundo "XicanoPwr" Rocha, a social worker, an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary. My interests include: immigration reform, critical race theory and it's interaction with equality/inequality and freedom/oppression as they relate to the experiences of people of color in the Americas.
Para Justicia y Libertad is a Latino-centered political blog focusing on the humanistic perspective of politics, history, and society as they relate to the Latina/o community throughout Texas and the United States.
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Here in Columbus Ohio we even got a few thousand people to gather and protest HR4437…that’s right COLUMBUS OHIO!
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