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Students Still Protesting Immigration Crackdown
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| March 27, 2006
| Staff
Posted on 03/27/2006 12:16:56 PM PST by La Enchiladita
AP) LOS ANGELES The marches against proposed immigration legislation are spreading in Los Angeles.
Some 1,500 L.A. students who have walked out of class are gathered outside Los Angeles City Hall.
L.A. school district officials said some 1,000 students from Los Angeles High School on the 4600 block of Olympic Avenue have walked out and are reportedly heading toward Hollywood High School on the 1500 block of North Highland Avenue.
Hundreds of students have already left Huntington Park High School, some scaling fences that school officials locked to avoid a walkout.
L.A. school district spokeswoman Monica Carazo said students have walked out from at least eight schools ranging from the San Fernando Valley to the wealthy coastal enclave of Pacific Palisades.
Carazo said teachers and administrators are accompanying the students to look after their safety.
The L.A. Police Department said the force is on tactical alert as a precaution because of the protests. But no arrests or major confrontations have been reported.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: California; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 109th; aliens; amnesty; anarchy; bush; deportallillegals; illegalaliens; immigrantlist; immigration; ingratitude; lausd; losangelesschools; ourcountry; ourdime; protests; reconquista; studentprotest; students; truancy
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To: La Enchiladita
I watched this and many other LA news channels tonight and I am so sick with anger and disgust. This anger is numbing as it is enhanced by the lack of political initiative today on capital hill and as usual CA and LA. I am very concerned and hope I am wrong about where my mind inevitably takes this country.
Living in the SW is sometimes unnerving, but now I feel helpless. Maybe it is time to pack our bags, sell our overpriced home and moved to a much more conservative location. Of course I am not one to run and always one to fight. I was also saddened when I heard about the Riverside teenagers skipping school, waving the Mexican flag and getting into it with the police. Riverside is very conservative isn't it? I can only hope this all back fires big time.
To: La Enchiladita
Better question...
Where is the INS?
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posted on
03/28/2006 5:37:01 AM PST
by
nonliberal
(Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
To: La Enchiladita
Today, 36,000 students jumped fences of locked down high schools, took over streets and freeways, yelling, waving signs and mexican flags.Huh?.. my IQ is not hat highg... but what is the logic of that? Maybe some lefties are telling them that CA belongs to them or putting funny ideas in their head... :)
Not normal behavior when you are begging to be admitted for another country... but this is exactly what I am afraid of, logic doesn not count anymore... these are different times.. Globalismo! :)
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posted on
03/28/2006 6:07:39 AM PST
by
ElPatriota
(Let's not forget, we are all still friends despite our differences)
To: La Enchiladita; hedgetrimmer; Borax Queen; Travis McGee; DoughtyOne; Arizona Carolyn; Ladycalif; ...
The assistant superintendent for L.A. schools says the school administration is going to have a "dialogue" with the students. A..."dialogue."
How quaint.
I can't believe (well, yes I can) how gutless the LAUSD has become since I went there in the 70's.
What an utter failure that place has become!
Heaven help any of the kids left, that are not part of this "movement."
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posted on
03/28/2006 6:13:36 AM PST
by
kstewskis
("I don't know what I know, but I know that it's big".....Jerry Fletcher)
To: HiJinx
Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!
Support our Minutemen Patriots!
Be Ever Vigilant!
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posted on
03/28/2006 7:14:47 AM PST
by
blackie
(Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
To: La Enchiladita
The origin of the walkouts--from an anarchist blog?
Many people I talked with around the city yesterday questioned whether Edward James Olmos' newly released documentary about mass Chicano student protests against discriminatory educational policies in 1968 East L.A. high schools, "Walkout," influenced yesterday's events. In an interview yesterday with Hoy, an L.A.-based Spanish language paper, Olmos refuted this idea by claiming the conditions that precipitated the protests against HR 4437 were drastically different than those that animated Chicano life in 1968. However, a student demonstrator from Manual Arts told Hoy, "Before I saw the movie, I didn't think we could do something like that. I didn't understand how you could affect change. But after I saw it, I felt in my heart that I could do something."
The tactics employed by student demonstrators also bore striking resonances of those conceived by the Situationist International, which stressed the liberation of ordinary life (school) by creating improvised, participatory situations (parading down the middle of the freeway during rush hour). Though I doubt Guy Debord's manifestos were in the front of any of the demonstrators' minds yesterday, the walkouts neatly established an open-ended, dramatic "situation" that captivated the media and sustained the momentum of the weekend demos.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/walkout_b_18016.html
Is it coincidence that the HBO movie Walkout started showing just in time for the demonstrations?
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posted on
03/28/2006 8:09:24 AM PST
by
hedgetrimmer
("I'm a millionaire thanks to the WTO and "free trade" system--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
To: ElPatriota
In California schools a program called "Teaching Tolerance" actually teaches kids to do walkouts. This program is often funded by site councils, not part of the regular budget. It was created by the Southern Poverty Law center.
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posted on
03/28/2006 8:12:49 AM PST
by
hedgetrimmer
("I'm a millionaire thanks to the WTO and "free trade" system--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
To: hedgetrimmer; All
There are thousands out there today in the rain! FOX11 just showed about 20 getting corralled by LAPD and CHP after they tried to shut down Vincent Thomas Bridge. One mother showed up and was screaming at her daughter....
Just another day in LA.
To: BurbankKarl
One mother showed up and was screaming at her daughter.... That's progress, I guess...
To: Brad's Gramma
the daughter looked shamed....although the mother didnt take her daughter....looks like older sister was involved too....
To: BurbankKarl
the daughter looked shamedAt that age, it was shame that she was caught, in public, in front of her friends. Trust me on this. She'll learn to sneak out better next time.
Little darlin' that she is....
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