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03-28-2006, 12:45 AM #1
OK...Some Things Are Getting Out of Control
I just found this article, and it suggest things are starting to get at least a bit out of control where the students are concerned. The LA police have gone on tactical alert, and there were some arrests today.
Monday's protests draw tens of thousands
Associated Press
http://www.dailynews.com/ci_3644577
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Tens of thousands of students walked out of schools Monday in California and other states, waving flags and wearing white shirts in a second week of protests against legislation that would make it a felony to be an illegal immigrant.
On California's Cesar Chavez Day, at least 14,315 students walked out of at least 16 Los Angeles-area schools from the San Fernando Valley to the wealthy coastal enclave of Pacific Palisades, said Monica Carazo, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Several hundred people marched along a downtown freeway. More than 1,000 circled the downtown City Hall and some met with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in his office.
"Of course there should be amnesty (for illegal immigrants). We've been here for many years. We work hard. We contribute to the economy of the U.S.," said Belmont High School student Fermin Vasquez, 18.
About 300 students and adult supporters walked onto the Harbor Freeway in downtown Los Angeles, forcing Highway Patrol officers to briefly close the northbound lanes.
The demonstrators walked about a mile before they were escorted off, CHP Officer Joe Zizi said. Some could be cited.
"They were in the middle. They were in all lanes," he said.
In Santa Ana, police cars were sporadically pelted with rocks and bottles by knots of protesters, Santa Ana police Lt. Baltazar De La Riva said.
"They've damaged a few units," he said. Nobody was hurt and only one arrest was immediately reported, he said.
Other arrests and possible injuries were reported as students marched at a mall in Riverside.
"It's resulting in bottles and rocks being thrown," police Lt. Bob Meier said. He did not have further details but said the department had put "everybody we've got" at the scene.
The Riverside County Sheriff's Department reported two student protests, one in Moreno Valley and the other in downtown Riverside. Both were peaceful, according to Cpl. Dennis Gutierrez, a department spokesman.
Four hundred students walked out of Moreno Valley High school and marched a few miles, to a park and to City Hall, Gutierrez said.
In downtown Riverside, 400 students marched to the county courthouse and stood there for an hour, then walked to the federal courthouse and demonstrated there, Gutierrez said.
Gutierrez said the students are well organized because they are communicating through the myspace.com Web site.
"They are all chatting through that Web site," he said.
More than a dozen arrests were made in Escondito in San Diego County, the North County
Police said some students threw rocks and bottles and damaged police cars. Police pepper-sprayed one teen demonstrator, who was treated at a hospital.
In Washington, where lawmakers were haggling over immigration reform involving the nation's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants, advocates rallied supporters at the Capitol. They are demanding Congress abandon House-passed measures that would make being an illegal immigrant a felony and would erect a 700-mile fence along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border.
Protests drew more than 500,000 people in Los Angeles on Saturday and tens of thousands in Phoenix and Milwaukee last week.
Hundreds of high school students from the San Francisco Bay area joined 20 hunger strikers who concluded a weeklong fast to protest the immigration reform bill by leading a march to the San Francisco office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. Feinstein sits on a Senate committee debating the bill.
In Los Angeles, police went on a citywide tactical alert, but no arrests were made and no major confrontations were reported.
Word of the student-organized boycott spread through heavily Hispanic downtown schools, where word was passed through hall posters and public address systems.
At Huntington Park High School south of downtown, officials locked the gates after classes started but students climbed over a chain-link fence to join marchers.
There was a brief tug-of-war at South Gate High School as administrators struggled to close a main door while protesters from Huntington Park High tried to keep it open so students could dart out.
Protests also were reported in other cities. About 200 students marched to the Capitol in Arizona, waving Mexican flags and chanting slogans in Spanish.
In Detroit, students wearing white T-shirts as a sign of peace marched toward the federal building downtown. Dallas saw hundreds of students ditching class.
Several hundred students also marched Yakima, Wash., an agricultural center surrounded by cherry and apple orchards.Keep the spirit of a child alive in your heart, and you can still spy the shadow of a unicorn when walking through the woods.


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