Students Still Protesting Immigration Crackdown

kcal9/cbs2 ^ | March 27, 2006 | Staff

[GOP Poet]

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.

[nonliberal]

Better question...

Where is the INS?

[ElPatriota]

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! :)

[kstewskis]

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."

[blackie]

Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!

Support our Minutemen Patriots!

Be Ever Vigilant!

[hedgetrimmer]

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?

[hedgetrimmer]

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.

[BurbankKarl]

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.

[Brad’s Gramma]

One mother showed up and was screaming at her daughter....

That's progress, I guess...

[BurbankKarl]

the daughter looked shamed....although the mother didnt take her daughter....looks like older sister was involved too....

[Brad’s Gramma]

the daughter looked shamed

At 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....