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Marchers urged to 'keep the momentum going'
ERIC SAGARA and SHERYL KORNMAN
Published: 04.10.2006

Updated at 5:30 p.m. - Southern Arizona Hispanic leaders hope the energy sparked by today's pro-immigration march and rally will translate into more than words.
They're hoping for political change.
"We march today; we vote tomorrow," said Ward 1 City Council member Jose Ibarra when he addressed the crowd organizers estimated at 12,000. "We have to keep this momentum going."
Tucson's rally was among dozens from coast to coast that brought hundreds of thousands of people to the streets in support of immigrants. An estimated 150,000 marched in Phoenix.
"This will change Arizona politics forever," Phoenix pollster Earl de Berge said. "This is a tipping point (for) the Latino community and its energies."
Organizers of yesterday's Tucson rally hope to turn current fervor into an ongoing effort, said Debbie Weingarten of Derechos Humanos, a sponsor of the rally.
"We've just got to stay strong because we have so much energy, so much emotion, so much positivity coming out of us. We've just got to continue it," she said after the rally ended late afternoon.
The rally today generally was peaceful, with the exception of a slight scuffle when counter protesterd burned two Mexican flags in Armory Park.
Protesters scuffled when officers tried to take two men into custody. Their identities and the reasons for their arrests were not known. Those two, another man and a woman were seen in handcuffs being escorted by Tucson police.
Dozens of officers swooped into the intersection of Scott Avenue and McCormick Street to disperse the crowd, which was heard screaming at police. A police helicopter circled overhead.
"Get out of the way!" a police officer yelled as the crowd milled about in front of the funeral home.
People in the crowd were yelling, "Let her go!"
The incident came after several hours of peaceful protest.
The march from the South Side to midtown was organized to protest a proposed law that would make illegal immigration a felony.