Thread: 'A Day Without A Mexican' Protest In The Works

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'A Day Without A Mexican' Protest In The Works
Movie Asks What Would Happen If Latinos Disappeared From California

POSTED: 9:29 pm PDT April 6, 2006
UPDATED: 12:44 pm PDT April 7, 2006

SAN DIEGO -- Another immigration reform event is brewing -- inspired by the 2004 movie "A Day Without A Mexican," 10News reported.

Activists said Monday, May 1 will be called, "A Day Without Latinos" -- a boycott of work, school and shopping for those who participate nationwide.

"Immigrants do make contributions. Everyday life in the U.S. has a piece of immigrants," said Christian Ramirez, (comma) of the American Friends Service Committee.

In the movie, chaos erupts with the disappearance California's Latinos.

Activists believe a boycott could be life imitating art.

"We have a whole new dynamic brewing here -- a new social movement of sorts in the debate over immigration," Ramirez said.

Meantime, more demonstrations are planned. Tens of thousands of people will march through Balboa Park Sunday as part of an "Immigrants Are America" rally.

"The real issue is we have 11 million undocumented workers that are part of this society that are not getting the rights in this country," said Ben Monterroso, of the Service Employees International Union.

Monterroso is encouraging all 15,000 SEIU members in San Diego County to march.

Organizers are asking participants to follow some specific guidelines in terms of what to wear and what to carry.

"We want to wear white as a symbol of peace. We want to make sure the community embraces the American flag and all the laws of this country. That's what we're trying to do," Monterroso said.

So if every Latino participates, and it turns out that everything runs smoothly without them, and our whole economy doesn't collapse, will the pro-illegals, mainstream media and Jorge Bush stop giving us the line that we couldn't possibly function without them? If everything goes OK, proving that we don't need illegals in order to survive, will the government do its job and deport all the illegals?

actually their hope is that all "latino's" nationwide will not come to work. Their hope is that "stupid Americans" will just generize all latino's as illegals so that when the economic impact is cited by the US Gov't, which Bush will see too, that us "fat lazy idiots" will assume that the lies they spew out are actually true.

I don't think it will work, I don't know any "latinos" who are not going to work on that day, of course all the ones I know are legally here.

"The real issue is we have 11 million undocumented workers that are part of this society that are not getting the rights in this country," said Ben Monterroso, of the Service Employees International Union.

Undocumented Illegals NOT getting RIGHTS. Show me where is says they have any rights! What are the rights of Illegals? Can they protest? March? Demand more money? What?