Thread: Did Anyone Else Take Video and Pictures of Local Marches?

The Los Angeles Channel 2 news tonight didn't have the illegals marching as their lead story AMEN the led with the puppy mill story in Lancaster.

They reported Los Angeles was expecting 100,000 marchers but only got around 10,000.

Guess the march was just another bust

Originally Posted by April

It always amazes me that illegals liken themselves to Rosa Parks! What a load of BS!!! Like we are going to fall for that!

That's about as bad as them saying this is their "civil rights movement" It's crap like this that makes my eyes bleed.

THEY ARE ACCEPTING COMMENTS ON THIS ARTICLE AT THIS LINK. ALSO THERE ARE PICTURES AT THE LINK….NO VIDEO THOUGH.

May Day protests in San Francisco.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... e=politics

(05-01) 17:42 PDT SAN FRANCISCO - -- The Bay Area celebrated May Day in traditional fashion today - with an array of protests around the region - for an end to the war in Iraq, against education budget cuts and in favor of legalization for undocumented immigrants.

Dockworkers with the International Longshore & Warehouse Union made the earliest and biggest impact today, walking off the job at ports up and down the West Coast this morning, calling for an end to the war. Union officials estimated the number of workers at 25,000 while maritime officials placed the number closer to 10,000.

By late afternoon, attention shifted toward immigrant rights - with thousands of marchers taking to the streets in San Francisco and Oakland.

In San Francisco, an energetic crowd of several hundred people left Dolores Park - bound for the Civic Center - at about 4 p.m., chanting and drumming for immigrant rights. In contrast to the morning protests, which drew an older crowd, the march through the Mission District drew a decidedly younger crowd, including students, Mission District hipsters and young immigrant parents pushing children in strollers.

Two dozen teenagers led the march, carrying a banner that depicted flags of all the nations of the Americas - from Canada to Chile. A man with a megaphone in a pickup truck followed behind, loudly exhorting people to come out of their houses and into the streets. A few people heeded the message, but most merely watched the march pass. Marchers were accompanied by a mixture of bouncy Mexican corridos and sing-song chants in English, including "We are people, we are not illegal."

Carlos Cartagena, of San Francisco, carried a sign that read: "No, no, no, no. This is not Cinco de Mayo. It's the first of May, International Workers Day."

"It's a special day in Latin American history," he said. "It's no fiesta."

Across the Bay, hundreds of immigrants and supporters flooded the Fruitvale BART station for a rally and march to Oakland City Hall that began about 3 p.m. The rally featured Aztec dancers, singers and speeches demanding better rights for immigrants.
"All we want to do is work and put food on the table," said Jamilent Canaca, a mother of two from Hayward who works in construction, through a translator. "But it's very difficult to find employment and support your family. We still have to struggle, like we're still in a Third World country."

Protesters said they want laws making it easier to work, obtain drivers' licenses and keep families united, without constant fear of deportation.

"We're fighting so families don't get separated," said Juan Ruiz, a painter from San Francisco. "We're fighting to see short-term improvements in immigration status for everyone. We're law-abiding citizens, we just want to work and keep our bellies full without the threat of losing employment."

Juan Maravilla, a construction worker from Antioch, said many Americans don't recognize that people have been traveling between California and Mexico for thousands of years.
"We're all native North Americans," he said. "We have a right to walk from the north of Alaska to the tip of Argentina."

Marcos Castro, a construction worker from Oakland, said the plight of immigrants could be improved by more sympathetic government leaders.

"Authorities don't care about us," he said. "They treat us like we're animals, like we're nothing. But all us are trying for a better life - we just want to work and become citizens."
The day of protests began about dawn outside the Port of Oakland, where four-dozen anti-war protesters rallied outside the Port of Oakland's rail terminal for around three hours, conducting a "soft picket": waving signs and urging truckers and other port workers to join the longshore workers in staying off the job, but not trying to block their access. After about three hours, they packed up their signs and marched from the port to their cars to drive to San Francisco, where they joined a larger march and rally.

"Were here to support the longshore union workers," said Toby Blone, of El Cerrito, who was carrying a large peace symbol fashioned from a hula hoop and covered in artificial flowers. "This is a very courageous effort they're doing."

Operations in Oakland and other West Coast ports ground to a halt after ILWU workers stayed off the job, said Steve Getzug, spokesman for the Pacific Maritime Association, which represents companies that move cargo through West Coast ports.

"There is no activity," he said. "The ILWU struck West Coast ports and brought cargo operations to a virtual standstill."

The impact on ship traffic at Oakland was not expected to be significant, since only one ship was expected to arrive today, the Chicago Bridge from Los Angeles, sometime between 4 and 4:30 p.m., said port spokeswoman Marilyn Sandifur. Workers were expected to return for the evening shift at 5 p.m., so any delay is expected to be relatively short, she said.

In San Francisco, several hundred anti-war protesters gathered at the ILWU hall on Fisherman's Wharf and marched down the Embarcadero to Justin Herman Plaza, urged on by a spirited brass band and led by the ILWU drill team, wearing taps on their shoes and carrying grappling hooks in their hands.

At Justin Herman Plaza, a larger crowd of anti-war protesters mixed with curious Financial District workers on their lunch breaks. Clarence Thomas, an ILWU spokesman, praised the protesters for walking off the job, and called on others to join them.

"Could you imagine if this were being duplicated in more places in all the major sectors of the economy?" he said. "It would send a message that we want this war to end. It's killing our children and diverting resources from domestic needs."

Trent Willis, business agent with ILWU Local 10, reminded the crowd that May Day was the first Labor Day in the United States.

"It doesn't matter if you're a longshoreman, an office worker, a garbage man, a bike messenger ... the people who are going to end this war are working people," he said.
Cindy Sheehan, who lost her son in the war and is running for Congress against Rep. Nancy Pelosi, urged average Americans to join the fight to end the war.

"Over 4,000 of our soldiers dead, tens of thousands wounded, 18 veterans commit suicide a day - that's abominable," she said. "We have to do everything we can to put ourselves in the way of the war machine."

Actor Danny Glover paid homage to the early leaders of the labor movement in San Francisco and galvanized the crowd by reading from a speech by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. about fighting racism, poverty and militarism.

"Our children and our children's lives demand that we be here right now and challenge the empire and say it will not do business as usual on our watch," he added. "We're here today because we have that rare opportunity in our lifetime to build a movement for justice, not a campaign but a movement."

Students at San Francisco State University, UC Berkeley and other college campuses staged walk outs and teach-ins on the state's proposed cuts to education spending. A walkout at San Francisco State spilled onto 19th Avenue at about 12:45 p.m. when hundreds of students walked out of class and headed for Muni Metro to head to Dolores Park for an immigration rights rally, campus spokeswoman Ellen Griffin said. Before catching the train, they blocked traffic before being dispersed about 1:15 p.m.

And in San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose and other cities in California and across the country, immigrant rights advocates are expected to take to the streets later today. They are calling on Congress to pass a comprehensive immigration overhaul, including a path to legal status, and ultimately citizenship, for the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants living and working in the United States.

This year's marches were not expected to rival the massive immigrant rights marches during the spring of 2006, in which a combined several million protesters took to the streets of major American cities.

But tens of thousands of people are expected to march in Los Angeles and other California cities, calling for legalization and an end to immigration raids and deportations.
E-mail the writers at thendricks@sfchronicle.com, carolynjones@sfchronicle.com and cburress@sfchronicle.com

Gotta love them commies! Ship'em off to China! Let them see what living in a commie country is really like, and they'll soon beg to leave.

"We're fighting so families don't get separated," said Juan Ruiz, a painter from San Francisco. "We're fighting to see short-term improvements in immigration status for everyone. We're law-abiding citizens, we just want to work and keep our bellies full without the threat of losing employment."

Where in the world does he get this BS? Illegal aliens are NOT citizens of the US and do not have the rights of citizens! US citizens are fighting for OUR country, illegal aliens have NO right to anything in our country!

Originally Posted by AyatollahGondola

A picture says a thousand words, right? This is what this open borders movement is really about.

You ever wonder how left wing Open Borders groups get their money? Between the Communist party and the drug cartels I am sure they have little trouble finding monetary support. Both would love to see the door to the USA wide open.

Ok, I finished my video and now I need to figure out how to upload to YouTube. Does anyone know what quality/bitrate that I should use? The video is about 13 minutes. [/img]

For some disturbing photos of the Los Angeles rally, see this thread:

http://www.alipac.us/ftopic-113964-25.html

Dixie, where in the Alipac account do I post it?

Originally Posted by Dixie

Let W. know that you have video, he may want to post it on the Alipac account.

Dixie