Two Home Construction Site
HIRE AMERICANS RALLY
August 31, 2007
Ralliers in front of construction site

LENNAR Homes Construction Site
Above, Lennar Homes - corporate headquarters, Miami, Fl http://www.lennar.com/ Construction site - Etiwanda, CA


We set up our HIRE AMERICANS rally on what appeared to be a public sidewalk, across the street from the Lennar Rancho Etiwanda Estates construction site.
http://www.lennar.com/findhome/communit ... VID=INLLEN
This is an area in the foothills - acres and acres of view lots - with more than nine different building companies constructing new homes.

When we arrived some of the Spanish speakers stopped working and observed - there were a group of non-English speaking roofers onsite to collect their paychecks - who were quite shocked to see us!

One of these roofers - offered up his tool belt - and said go do the job.
There were about five Lennar management guys who were called onsite once we arrived. They wore golf shirts that were dark blue with the word LENNAR embroidered on the shirt. Several were with the sales department.

LENNAR CALLS FIVE POLICE CARS!
Ralliers watch as the man in the truck tells our rallier that Lennar: has called the police and wants us gone!

In the above photo, the dark truck at the curb: the man inside, one of the contractors, was speaking to our rallier - by coincidence they knew each other.
The contractor told our rallier the Lennar sales department and management had called the police - they were furious we were there - and told the police they
wanted us gone - that the sidewalk was not yet "dedicated."

Soon after that police cars started pulling up - until there were a total of five police cars onsite.

We were assembled peacefully - American flags
in hand - just moms and dads - on the sidewalk, when the officers arrived.

Of interest, when the police cars arrived, the workers seemed to disappear.

Lennar management were in the above vehicles - waiting to speak with police officers

The first officer to arrive, pulled over to the curb and spoke to us - remaining in his vehicle. He said Lennar had contacted the police and stated the sidewalks were "not dedicated."

But the officer said to us - how do I know that?

Then the officer said to stay on the sidewalks because Lennar said if we stepped on their property they wanted all of us arrested. The officer then drove up the street to speak with the Lennar management team.

In the above photo, the officer met with two of the Lennar staff - they were both flailing their arms about and pointing at us.

The officer spoke with the Lennar team for quite some time


Above two of the five police vehicles

POLICE ALLOW THE RALLY TO GO FORWARD...
All five police vehicles eventually left allowing us to continue our rally (some of the officers gave us thumbs up when they drove away). The man in the truck, above photo, seemed to be the top guy onsite.

After the police left, he also left as we continued our scheduled rally.

SPANISH SPEAKING ROOFER belittles American workers
The roofer, on the right, spoke no English

The man on the right recognized Minuteman Project National Rally Spokesman Raymond Herrera from Spanish TV. He spoke to Raymond in Spanish - bad mouthing American workers.

He pointed to the roofs of the houses being built and said, "Americans are too afraid to go up on those roofs."
Herrera said, "Look, buddy, you people have been here for less than 20 years and we have been here for 400 years. WE built America and we are not afraid."

Then Herrera said, "Go back to Mexico and roof there!" The guy looked sheepish. And Herrera said, "Go back home and fix your country." The roofer left shortly thereafter.

An AMERICAN Tradesman!

The man on the right is an AMERICAN tradesman, working at the Lennar construction site

The man at right in the above photo came walking toward us after the police left. He said he wanted to thank us for the rally.

He said when the police showed up, he thought to himself, "NO! Don't make them leave!" He said there was only a "small minority" of American tradesmen working at the Lennar Home construction site.

He also said that it has gotten so bad that if he talks about the hardships for him working with the Spanish speaking workers, the workers go to the big boss and call him a "racist" and demand he be fired!

He said the fact that he had spoken to us would be a cause for the workers to persecute him. BUT he said that wasn't about to influence or stop him; he had to talk to us and thank us.

We wished we could stand alongside him - our fellow American - as he walked back onto the job site!!!

The work site had female, Spanish speaking workers, one is in the above photo. There are a growing number of these female construction workers.

A yellow lunch truck rolled onto the construction site, after the police left and workers crowded around it

Distinguished Homes Construction Site
Upland
Thank you to all of you who called Distinguished Homes on behalf of American workers!!! http://www.distinguishedhomes.com/commu ... h_cove.php
We rallied in front of the Wyeth Cove Distinguished Homes construction site, which is in Phase I of the development process

We were in a residential area and got 100 percent support from the passersby!!! Tons of thumbs up and friendly honks!


YELLING SUPERINTENDENT arrives onsite

The lady - in a white shirt - by the construction office arrived and was very upset!

She started calling on her cell phone and pacing about. She left in her SUV and came back later, followed by the superintendent in his truck.

We were in full rally mode when the superintendent and woman supervisor arrived. In the above photo the superintendent is in the sales office doorway and the woman supervisor next to her SUV.

He arrived yelling at us at the top of his lungs: YOU GO PICK STRAWBERRIES!!! And other such very loud absurdities. He was VERY angry!!

I hollered, "Stop treating Americans like this!" As he seemed to realize then that I was photographing him, and he went inside of the sales office.
Rallying in front of Wyeth Cove home construction site: HIRE AMERICANS
You could see the American flags over the wall of the construction site

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I'm sorry I couldn't get the pics included.

I'll bet it was burning hot out there when they had the protest as well.