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07-20-2005, 01:34 AM #1
40,000 march against Minutemen in Chicago
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40,000 march against Minutemen in Chicago
By Elizabeth Lalasz | July 22, 2005 | Page 15
CHICAGO--About 40,000 people rallied at McKinley Park on the city’s South Side in favor of immigrant rights and in opposition to the Minutemen establishing a chapter in Chicago.
The protest--the largest demonstration in the city in decades--included thousands of immigrants from Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, Peru, Ecuador, Uruguay and Costa Rica. They chanted at full volume, “¡Si se puede!, ¡Si se puede!� (Yes, we can!; Yes we can!�), holding signs that read, “Minutemen: Human Rights Violators�; “We want recognition as workers: we are not terrorists�; “We demand the right to get work permits� and “Stop Deportations.�
Eliseo Morales, who brought his whole family to the rally said, “We are legal residents. My children were born here and we have no problems with immigration...We are brothers by origin. We come from the same land and share the problems of our race, and so here we are.�
Organized through pro-immigrant organizations like Centro Sin Fronteras and local churches, the demonstration took on a bigger character once Spanish-speaking radio disc jockeys began promoting it. Now organizers are floating the idea of organizing a similar demonstration in front of the White House.
The Minutemen--who mounted highly publicized “border patrols� in Arizona and California in recent months--targeted Chicago because it has the second-largest Mexican immigrant population in the U.S. after Los Angeles. That’s why the demonstration is so significant. As one young Latino participant told Socialist Worker, “It’s the kind of thing you want to see. When you have a good cause, you can bring a lot of people together.�
We have to keep organizing. The day before the rally, the Chicago Tribune, ran an interview with the group’s main organizers, giving them a platform. These racists are planning a future action targeting Wells Fargo, a bank which accepts the matricula consular, a Mexican ID card primarily used by undocumented immigrants. They’re also proposing an “activist boot camp� October 15 to fight “illegal immigration� in Chicago!
We have to build on the momentum of the July 1 protest to let the Minutemen know that they are not welcome here.Support our FIGHT AGAINST illegal immigration & Amnesty by joining our E-mail Alerts at http://eepurl.com/cktGTn
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07-20-2005, 04:42 AM #2
Re: 40,000 march against Minutemen in Chicago
Eliseo Morales, who brought his whole family to the rally said, “We are legal residents. My children were born here and we have no problems with immigration...We are brothers by origin. We come from the same land and share the problems of our race, and so here we are.�
What so funny is that they think they share the problems of "race". There is that old FAKE RACE thing again. If you are Latino or Mexican, then you are a Caucasian, STUPID!!
The Minutemen--who mounted highly publicized “border patrols� in Arizona and California in recent months--targeted Chicago because it has the second-largest Mexican immigrant population in the U.S. after Los Angeles. That’s why the demonstration is so significant. As one young Latino participant told Socialist Worker, “It’s the kind of thing you want to see. When you have a good cause, you can bring a lot of people together.�
We have to keep organizing. The day before the rally, the Chicago Tribune, ran an interview with the group’s main organizers, giving them a platform. These racists are planning a future action targeting Wells Fargo, a bank which accepts the matricula consular, a Mexican ID card primarily used by undocumented immigrants. They’re also proposing an “activist boot camp� October 15 to fight “illegal immigration� in Chicago!
We have to build on the momentum of the July 1 protest to let the Minutemen know that they are not welcome here.
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07-20-2005, 08:08 AM #3
40,000 what a lie.
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07-20-2005, 09:49 AM #4
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Yeah, I got that in my email this morning....I wondered as I read...40,000...I'd bet not...maybe 1,000. Probably 300.
And his children were born here? That doesn't make them citizens to me...that makes them children born to foreign parents. We MUST stop allowing them to torture our 14th amendment into something it was NEVER meant to be.
I was pleased to see that at least THEIR protests make the press...ours certainly don't, unless it's something negative. Attention to the problem is all we need...Americans will make up their own minds what's right and what's wrong. Naturally there will be some folks protesting b/c they're professional protesters and care not what the cause might be...they just love to raise hell.
Go Minutemen, go...go ...go...go...stir up this pot. It's already at a rolling boil.
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07-20-2005, 10:16 AM #5The protest--the largest demonstration in the city in decades--included thousands of immigrants from Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, Peru, Ecuador, Uruguay and Costa Rica. They chanted at full volume, “¡Si se puede!, ¡Si se puede!� (Yes, we can!; Yes we can!�), holding signs that read, “Minutemen: Human Rights Violators�; “We want recognition as workers: we are not terrorists�; “We demand the right to get work permits� and “Stop Deportations.�
Eliseo Morales, who brought his whole family to the rally said, “We are legal residents. My children were born here and we have no problems with immigration...We are brothers by origin. We come from the same land and share the problems of our race, and so here we are.�
Organized through pro-immigrant organizations like Centro Sin Fronteras and local churches, the demonstration took on a bigger character once Spanish-speaking radio disc jockeys began promoting it. Now organizers are floating the idea of organizing a similar demonstration in front of the White House.
The Minutemen--who mounted highly publicized “border patrols� in Arizona and California in recent months--targeted Chicago because it has the second-largest Mexican immigrant population in the U.S. after Los Angeles. That’s why the demonstration is so significant. As one young Latino participant told Socialist Worker, “It’s the kind of thing you want to see. When you have a good cause, you can bring a lot of people together.�
We have to keep organizing. The day before the rally, the Chicago Tribune, ran an interview with the group’s main organizers, giving them a platform. These racists are planning a future action targeting Wells Fargo, a bank which accepts the matricula consular, a Mexican ID card primarily used by undocumented immigrants. They’re also proposing an “activist boot camp� October 15 to fight “illegal immigration� in Chicago!
We have to build on the momentum of the July 1 protest to let the Minutemen know that they are not welcome here.
If we had some real leadership in the White House and in the federal government in general then this garbage would have stopped long ago. Bush and his cronies with one phone call could have easily rounded up and deported all 40,000 of these criminal aliens who dared to try to protest policies of a country they don't even have a legal right to reside in. If I was in charge, I would have had the National Guard go in there and rounded up every last one of them and I would have aired it all over the news as a message that illegal immigration will not be tolerated, no matter what. Then again that's just me because unlike Jorge Bush, I actually have a backbone and don't give a damn what the vermin think about me and I don't accept payoffs.Please support our fight against illegal immigration by joining ALIPAC's email alerts here https://eepurl.com/cktGTn
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07-20-2005, 11:15 AM #6
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All I can say is thank God I don't live in Chicago. It sounds like they have been taken over by the scourge of our country. I don't any more believe there were 40,000 people there SUPPORTING ILLEGALS than I can fly. And, I don't believe that most of them were legal either because every one I've ever heard interviewed say they don't support illegal immigration. Now, SOMEONE is LYING. Wonder if there are any pictures so we could count the people!!
Next time we know there is going to be something like this going on, we need to post it on the website and have EVERY MEMBER contact ICE and tip them off. They wouldn't even have to buy them coffee and donuts. AND, then if nothing is done, we can attack ICE for not doing their jobs."POWER TENDS TO CORRUPT AND ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY." Sir John Dalberg-Acton
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07-20-2005, 11:36 AM #7
40,000 Wow! I wonder why this wastn on the news???
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07-20-2005, 12:43 PM #8
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Without going too deeply into exploring this, I think it is interesting that in Chicago, 40,000 Americans who are latino ancestory have no problem with people who violate our law. It tells me more about the community of Americans of latino ancestory than anything.
Do they think that 40,000 latinos standing up for criminals makes the hispanic-americans look GOOD?
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07-20-2005, 12:57 PM #9
A Google search looking for coverage of this "event" first turned up postings on FR. This is the translated La Raza (el puko) version. El Puko, La Raza, claims 50,000 showed up.
Historical Latina Manifestation
La Raza ^ | July 2 2005 | Miguel Ã?ngel Arrieta
Posted on 07/02/2005 6:47:31 PM PDT by chicagolady
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Thousands of Latin of all the nationalities participated in Chicago in a march against the measures anti-immigrants. PUBLICITY Miguel Arrieta Angel The surprising answer to the call emitted by local wireless companies, to participate in the march against policies and practices anti-immigrants, exceeded the expectations of the organizers of this manifestation. And it is that according to calculations of authorities and representatives of organizations who participated in the manifestation, they were little more than 50 thousand people whom crossed this Friday the streets of the South zone of Chicago, to send his protest against the hardening assumed by the North American government in the matter of immigration.
From the 7:30 in the morning groups of Latin adorned in their majority with blue trousers and playera white, began to arrive at the rallying point where he would give to beginning the march. Women, children, old, young, originating whole families of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Ecuador, but mainly of Mexico, after two hours already added the thousand people integrated to the movement.
In an atmosphere of fair decorated in the rain of claxonazos of trailers, trucks and automobiles, the members of the human column carried flags, posters, placards, standards of the Virgin of Guadalupe and organized in choir they sent slogans of protest directed to organizations anti-immigrants like the Minuteman group.
Other slogans were for President George Bush, so that it listened to the voice "of million citizens who participate in the growth of America and receive treatment of slaves". Thousand of fine cardboards presented/displayed with the arms in stop by his carriers, they also reflected the objectives of those who decided to send themselves to the street: "We want recognition like workers, we are not terrorist"; "We demanded right to obtain driver's licenses"; "Minuteman, rapists of human rights"; "High to the deportations".
People, people and more people. They left street 32, street 33. They arrived by both senses of the Archer avenue. Hundreds flowed more from the South side of the Ashland avenue. They complied in the spaces that found between the multitude. There was no a voice to order the crowd. Nor idea of how avoiding the confusion. Several times the contingent was confused by voices that indicated the moment for starting, but ended up stopping.
The organizers did not know what to do. It was the intervention of diverse volunteers who seted out to order the march, which allowed to avoid an unbalanced long walk. Minutes after the 10:00 in the morning contingent he initiated his displacement from the crossing of 31 street and Ashland avenue. This happened when al in front of the manifestation was placed the wireless conductor Rafael Pulido , identified like "the Gunman" of Chicago, that during the last weeks became the main promoter of this march. To the shout of "Himself it can; yes it can ", thousands of throats shook the streets of Chicago.
Before it had never happened something thus in this region of North America, revealed Councilman Ricardo Muñoz, hurried by those who they walked back of him in interminable row. Of that form, the contingent took almost two hours in moving until the parking of a located commercial center on the same Ashland avenue, to the height of street 43.
There, the Cardinal red parish priest Frame considered that the success achieved with the participation of thousands of citizens, must be as soon as the beginning of other similar movements that allow to sensitize the government of George Bush. In the heat of euphoria by the inaudita answer that had the call to participate in the march, the parish priest was interrupted by the music of the Mariachi who became present at those moments.
The emotion of the assistants did not stop there. It was the intonation of the Mexican national anthem what a gigantic culminated choir of new account by "Yes woke up can; yes it can ". In summary, it was an historical day for the Latin movement and particularly for the actions for the immigrants © the Race
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The weird thing is, NBC, CBS, ABC, and FOX TV didn't cover this at all! Neither did the Chicago Tribune or Sun-Times. They sent reporters and camera men to a FAIR meeting at a Chicago restaurant a few months ago where there were only 50 protestors to our 50 reformers. I guess the Sandra Day O'Connor resignation must have had all available reporters too busy yesterday.
1 posted on 07/02/2005 6:47:31 PM PDT by chicagolady
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07-20-2005, 01:33 PM #10
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If they are going to sing the MEXICAN NATIONAL ANTHEM, they need to go back to MEXICO. Get this--THIS IS AMERICA. We sing the STAR SPANGLED BANNER here.
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