Thread: No Soy Criminal

No Soy Criminal
by Carlos X/PNN Thursday, Feb. 02, 2006 at 12:15 PM

Anti-immigrant legislation inspired by the "Minutemen" is passed by the House of Representatives. San Francisco passes an ordinance condemning it


I have been in the Estados Unidos for nine years. Everyday i wake up at 5:00 am and take two buses and a train across town to my job at a Chinese restaurant. Everyday I stand on my feet for twelve hours washing dishes for $6.00 per hour. Everyday as my hands swim through the soap and grease, my mind runs through the rios y playas I used to see in my country. Rios y playas that tourists spend thousands of dollars traveling to see.

Every night I get back on two buses and a train and return to my room. Every night I dream of going home. I am a hard worker. Sometimes I am a dreamer. I am not a criminal. No soy criminal

My POOR Magazine editor told me about a proposed law called “Border Protection, Anti-Terrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Actâ€

[quote]Immigrant communities in San Francisco are organizing to defeat this egregious proposal. We will go to jail before we turn anyone in,â€

Never mind! Comments are now showing up on the indybay website. But, I couldn't delete this post -- I could just edit it.

[quote:1luhdh6m]
Be sure to go to the floowing web site and post your comments

http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/02/1799857.php

When I followed the link above, the "latest comment" area was completely blank with the header:

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which doesn't make much sense (10 of 1?).

Just wondering if the "add a comment" is shut off because the article is a couple of days old or if the website is "broken". I didn't want to bother trying to add a comment that would never show up. Anybody else see anything?
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Everyday I stand on my feet for twelve hours washing dishes for $6.00 per hour.

Hey Carlos, guess what?

You're being exploited. Minimum wage in CA is $6.75. Except in SF, that is, where it's $8.50.

It's curious that the SF Board of Stupidvisors aren't concerned about this. Maybe it's because they're the ones who own the restaurants that exploit people like you.

and did you walk through ten feet of snow too?
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Everyday i wake up at 5:00 am and take two buses and a train across town to my job at a Chinese restaurant

big deal- when I was between cars I took two buses- I walked miles because it was easier then taking the bus- and I didnt complain. for 6.00 an hour - I worked swing shift at nordstroms hanging up clothes all night - to pay the rent for my daughter and I, when no one wanted to hire an art major with a bachelors degree-basically I took any job the temp agency sent me out on--
maybe you shouldnt have bought the story of how the streets are paved with gold in the united states- maybe you should go back to your own country and ride a burrow-
the united states guarantees nothing- not even to those who have been citizens for 8 generations

Brain Flash- how about sending flyers to every chinese restaurant in the San francisco area ?

the united states guarantees nothing- not even to those who have been citizens for 8 generations

Well, that's not exactly true anymore, Thelma.

Some people have hundreds of taxpayer funded groups ready at the drop of a sombrero to guarantee all kinds of things to people like Carlos.

I just copied my reply and posted it to the site - it is working -please let's give em hell