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Occupy Wall Street: Latino Leaders March Through Manhattan to Show Support


Members of the Latino community marched through Manhattan to show solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street protestors.

About 1,000 community members, including black leaders and residents, trekked 11 miles down from Washington Heights to the Wall Street area to take a stand with the popular movement.

Elected officials, labor leaders and other protesters started walking in Washington Heights on Monday and headed south toward Wall Street. They'd made it to Times Square by mid-afternoon.

Washington Heights resident Carmen Acosta says she's a "99 percenter" living from paycheck to paycheck.

She says the whole world is represented by Zuccotti Park, the Manhattan park that has become the epicenter of the Occupy movement.

Also marching Monday were the city's public advocate, Bill de Blasio and Comptroller John Liu.
Organizers say they want to connect black and Latino supporters from all over the city.

State Sen. Adriano Espaillat, who organized the march with City Councilman Ydanis RodrÃ*guez, led the hundreds in the march.

“Neighborhoods like this have been in a permanent recession - Washington Heights, Harlem, East Harlem,â€

[quote]“Neighborhoods like this have been in a permanent recession - Washington Heights, Harlem, East Harlem,â€

Don't these Latino activists realize that one of the reasons there is high unemployment among Americans is due to illegal immigration? They b*tch about Wall Street and the fat cats but yet advocate for their illegal amigos to take our jobs putting Americans out of work and thereby increasing the profits of these fat cats? What is wrong with their heads?

Organizers say they want to connect black and Latino supporters from all over the city.

Of course the racists only want to connect black and latinos and forget about the rest of us. But then we all know in the end they will throw the blacks under the bus too.

Washington Heights resident Carmen Acosta says she's a "99 percenter" living from paycheck to paycheck.

By the 90s, the neighborhood became mostly Dominican.

By the 2000s, after years when gangsters ruled a thriving illegal drug trade, urban renewal began. Many Dominicans moved to Morris Heights, University Heights, and other west Bronx neighborhoods. Even though Dominicans still make up 73 percent of the neighborhood, their moves to the Bronx have made room for Mexicans and Ecuadorians.

The result, is visible in the tamales sold from street carts on nearly every block . Where once barbershops in the neighborhood were the cornerstone of Dominican male culture, flags from Mexico and the Dominican Republic now hang side-by-side.

Hello
do you do this In Mexico

I don't think so

No room in the south bx all full up
the illegal immgrants has the jobs
do you Demand This in your country I don't think so
Sb
No amnesty
all of you SB has Our country One hell of a mess

Originally Posted by Oldglory

Don't these Latino activists realize that one of the reasons there is high unemployment among Americans is due to illegal immigration? They b*tch about Wall Street and the fat cats but yet advocate for their illegal amigos to take our jobs putting Americans out of work and thereby increasing the profits of these fat cats? What is wrong with their heads?

I'll tell you what's wrong with their heads. You see, all sense of reason and common sense have been trumped by their loyalty to la raza. To them, there is no such thing as an illegal hispanic, only another hispanic that must be accommodated, immigration laws or not. They continue to elect the same corrupted leaders to represent them in Washington, while things get worse for them and a whole lot better for the person elected to represent them.

Originally Posted by NoBueno

Originally Posted by Oldglory

Don't these Latino activists realize that one of the reasons there is high unemployment among Americans is due to illegal immigration? They b*tch about Wall Street and the fat cats but yet advocate for their illegal amigos to take our jobs putting Americans out of work and thereby increasing the profits of these fat cats? What is wrong with their heads?

I'll tell you what's wrong with their heads. You see, all sense of reason and common sense have been trumped by their loyalty to la raza. To them, there is no such thing as an illegal hispanic, only another hispanic that must be accommodated, immigration laws or not. They continue to elect the same corrupted leaders to represent them in Washington, while things get worse for them and a whole lot better for the person elected to represent them.

Ain't it the truth! It is a culture of loyalty to the "tribe" above everything else. It trumps their nationalism and patriotism to this country.