Hope this wasn't posted. Another person 'gets it.' I'll leave the original link and also it was posted on the Chicago May Day planning site. I'll post what they say about this wonderful essay and then the actual essay. We're seeing more of this!!


--- On Tue, 4/29/08, rosalba priego <rosalbapriego@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: rosalba priego <rosalbapriego@yahoo.com>
Subject: Fw: Marching to a different drummer
To: "Jorge Mujica" <jmujicam@gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2008, 4:01 PM

Has the group read this email? If she does work as a Director for the UNO Org., Is she speaking for that organization as well?

It is sad to learn the ignorance and insensitivity of some of our young professionals.

Rosalba Priego
Community Relations Manager
Education Station
833 W. Jackson Suite 610
Chicago, Illinois 60607
312-282-3225

http://groups.google.com/group/ChicagoM ... 0af?hl=en#
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Marching to a different drummer

By Esther J. Cepeda

It’s that time of the year, folks.

The time when thousands of mostly-Hispanic defenders of immigrants’ rights will declare to non-Latino America how much they love and want to stay in the United States by marching around major cities bearing the flags of their homeland.

Yes, the time when the same people who will press you on the myriad ways immigrants thanklessly toil for this country, working endless hours in fields, restaurants, and factories, will skip work to parade through the streets en masse to call attention to their very existence.

Yep, the time when the same parents who look you in the eye and tell you they came to the U.S. to give their children hope for a bright future through the benefit of an American education will pull them out of school to stroll down crowded streets chanting “Si se puedeâ€