another version of the protest flier
Posted on 03/28/2006 10:10:51 AM PST by BurbankKarl
Edited on 03/28/2006 10:15:04 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Police herded students off an access road leading to the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro on Tuesday as demonstrations continued against possible immigration reforms. Student marches were also staged Tuesday morning in Bellflower and Compton.
Despite rain and a lockdown in the Los Angeles Unified School District, a group of about 200 students massed near 223rd Street in the Harbor Gateway area in San Pedro and started walking south on Avalon Boulevard shortly after 8 a.m. A separate group of students in San Pedro tried to get onto the Vincent Thomas Bridge, but police stopped them and turned them around, detaining a few.
In the San Fernando Valley, students reportedly walked out of Birmingham High School.
Los Angeles Unified campuses are locked down Tuesday, but the immigration bill that sparked two days of protests will be a topic of classroom discussion, officials said.
More than 36,000 students from 26 school districts throughout Los Angeles County skipped classes on Monday and marched through streets and on freeways to protest the immigration bill being debated by the U.S. Senate.
About 1,000 students rallied for much of the day at Los Angeles City Hall, with several representatives meeting privately with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. The mayor later spoke to the students, saying their voices were being heard, but urging them to return to class.
Los Angeles police Chief William Bratton said Monday's rainy forecast would also likely prevent any more mass walkouts by students.
LAUSD officials said middle and high school classes throughout the district would have classroom discussions on Tuesday about a bill introduced by Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., which would crack down on employers hiring illegal workers and people smuggling illegal immigrants into the country.
"We will have in-class teachings for students so that they can have conversations to deal with this issue in a very productive way," said Rowena Lagrosa, executive officer of educational services for the district. "We are being proactive so that those students will show up for school tomorrow."
The class discussions will also address freedom of speech, civil protests and events in U.S. history that have involved public protests, according to a district statement.
In addition to the lockdown, police presence will be beefed up on LAUSD campuses, district officials said.
Students who took part in the mass demonstration on Monday and last Friday could face discipline ranging from suspension to exclusion from cebtain school-sponsored functions, Lagrosa said.
The LAPD was placed on citywide tactical alert during Monday's protest, which led to five arrests during a demonstration at Van Nuys City Hall, LAPD Lt. Paul Vernon said.
Some students also snarled traffic when they marched on the Harbor (110) and Hollywood (101) freeways in downtown Los Angeles. Other students were reported marching on freeways in San Pedro and Orange County.
"We may be illegal immigrants, but we are human," Metropolitan High School senior Melania Preciado said at City Hall as she waved a Mexican flag. "We deserve the same rights as everyone else, not be treated like criminals."
The Sensenbrenner bill, HR 4437, would require employers to verify Social Security numbers with the Department of Homeland Security, increase penalities for immigrant smuggling and stiffen penalities for undocumented immigrants who reenter the United States after having been removed.
Under the bill, approved last December by the House of Representatives, local law enforcement agencies would be reimbursed for detaining illegal immigrants. Refugees with aggravated felony convictions would also be barred from receiving green cards.
The U.S. Senate's Judiciary Committee softened the immigration reform bill on Monday by voting to create a path for some of the nation's estimated 12 million illegal immigrants to become citizens without first leaving the country.
Under the version voted on by the committee, additional foreign workers would be allowed to enter the United States temporarily under a program that also could lead to citizenship.
Additionally, the committee adopted an amendment by Sen Richard Durbin, D- Ill., that would protect charitable organizations and churches from criminal charges for providing aid to illegal immigrants.
The bill will now move to the Senate floor, where an intensive debate likely to find Republicans fighting each other is expected to begin this week.
They are also going to protest the war in Iraq with this.
(that's *obviously* written by a progressive english teacher)
but... but... that former advisor to Vinnie Fox just sed that all these protests are spontaneous and not centrally planned!!!
what is a poor stupid gringo to believe?
another version of the protest flier
"what is a poor stupid gringo to believe?"
It shud be wat is a por stoopid gringo to beleef.
You know. Seriously, we're not only gringos, we're infidels. Hot dog. Can't win for losing. :-)
trying so hard to be so cute. sickening little insurrectionist bastards.
LOL!!!!
.....led on by even MORE sickening adults. THAT is what REALLY angers me..using children.
No different than the pali's, in my eyes.
I believe in my rifle and my aim and my will and my republic.
MOLON LABE
....and God. Never forget Him.
NO DIFFERENCE AT ALL.
same argument, same tactics. I wonder when Razaheads will start wearing vests by DuPont?
History suggests God does not defend those unwilling to do their own killing. I don't forget God, but I wed myself to my tools as if I did.
I'm looking at these tough mejican kids playing terrorist with their scarves.
I'm looking at the girls, scantily clad...wondering if they even REALIZE what they're imitating.
Hope they enjoy the burkas...
Ya think I'm sitting here unarmed? Nope.
I just had to pay $800 in extra income tax because two of my former employers last year didn't withold enough....
If they let illegals get by without paying back taxes I'll go on a rampage...
Its time the Minutemen adopt the late 19th early 20th century tactics of another organization, and make the USA free of illegals...
Clausewitz defined what is happening as an invasion... last I checked, invasion is an act of war...
being armed is less than having decided to kill.
being armed is nothing without having decided to kill.
have you decided to kill?
Have you made the choice, now, when you have leisure, that in the event the need arises you will kill ruthlessly and efficiently?
this is something a lot of folks fail to consider: the weapon in your hand is as vapor if the will to use it fails when the time comes to kill.
consider that both a caution and counsel.
Just because that kid's ancestors claimed that land as part of mexico doesn't give them a right to invade occupy it as they are, let alone be here illegally. Last I checked, many Germans got uprooted out of what is now part of Poland, Lithuania,France, Denmark, Holand, Austria, and Czechoslovakia after World War II when Germany's borders were redrawn and the country divided in half.
I am a PAN man!
I decided to kill when the terrorists took over the school in Beslan.
That was the turning point for me.
very good.
welcome to the family.
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