What a nice, patriotic crowd!
Posted on 04/09/2006 3:14:33 PM PDT by Lunatic Fringe
Peaceful protest pleases chief
At a police security briefing that ended about 3:15 p.m., Dallas police Chief David Kunkle reported that no one had been arrested and no noteworthy offenses had been committed amid the crowd that was widely estimated at 100,000.
Speculation put the crowd at up to 500,000, although police had no comment on that number.
“It’s been a very good day for the city,” Chief Kunkle said. “This is a family-oriented group that’s come here to demonstrate. No one we saw looked like they were planning to cause any problems.”
Chief Kunkle attributed the peaceful nature of the protest to the work of the volunteers and organizers, as well as police efforts to marginalize the small groups of counterprotesters.
“Even I’m surprised about the nature of the crowd. I think the people have been educated to ignore the other protesters,” he said.
Chief Kunkle reiterated his estimate that 550 police and 200 sheriff’s officers were on duty. Although no additional backups were called Sunday, supervisors were asking early shift officers to stay a few hours later, and calling the evening shift workers to arrive early.
Police work around the city would not be affected, he said.
Some counterprotesters retreat
Police told counterprotesters that they could protect them only to a point, and offered to escort them out through an underground parking lot. Six people left with police who were carrying shields and wearing helmets and shin pads.
Miles Walters, 16, a sophomore at Richardson High School, said he was scared when people started throwing water bottles and hunkered under a building for protection. “I wasn’t expecting it to be this bad,” he said. “Because we take pride in our country they hate us and call us racist.”
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Judy Harper, Managing Consultant for the US-Mexico Border Philanthropy Partnership
Prior to joining Synergos, Judy worked as an educator, community researcher and in nonprofit management in Los Angeles, Boston, Tijuana, Oaxaca and San Diego. Her experience spans adult education, refugee support, theatre and media arts, youth programs, community economic development, affordable housing and public policy - most often in a cross-border context.
The Synergos Institute is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to the development of effective, sustainable and locally based solutions to poverty.
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Juan Carlos Ruiz, general coordinator for the National Capital Immigration Coalition
LULAC is part of the National Capitol Immigration Coalition (NCIC)
League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
Mega March in Dallas Calling for Economic Boycott to Show Financial Impact of Hispanics on the U.S. Economy
Thousands of participants are to take part in the largest march in Dallas history ...click here to see the agenda or here to read more.
LULAC was formed in 1929 in Corpus Christi, Texas, by the merger of three Mexican American civic organizations: the Corpus Christi chapter of the Order Sons of America, the Order Knights of America of San Antonio, Texas, and the League of Latin American Citizens of South Texas. LULAC has worked consistently and effectively in advocating equal opportunity for Hispanics in government, law, education, and business.
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Coordinated by the National Capital Immigrant Coalition in the metro Washington, DC area and hundreds of grassroots organizations around the nation, immigrant communities and allies will come together for the largest mobilization for immigrant justice in our nation's history.
The www.April10.org website is hosted by FIRM - the Fair Immigration Reform Movement, a project of the Center for Community Change.
Our History
The Center, founded in 1968, grew out of a powerful combination of ideas and events in the 1960s. Many important partners, including the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Fund, the Ford Foundation, and leaders of the United Auto Workers, made the Center for Community Change a reality.
The Center for Community Change is a member of the United for Peace and Justice anti-war coalition.
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The Center for Community Change is a non-profit organization that recruits and trains activists to spearhead leftwing political issue campaigns. For instance, the Center promotes amnesty, social welfare programs, and even unionization for all illegal immigrants in the United States. It also supports the Fair Immigration Reform Movement, which advocates amnesty, unionization, and "increased voter participation by immigrant communities as a way to create political power."
Drew Astolfi, the Center's campaign organizer, attended the Gameliel Foundation's National Leadership Assembly in December 2003. This foundation sponsors the Immigrant Worker Freedom Ride's socialist, open borders agenda. It is also affiliated with ISAIAH, which favors open borders, sanctuary laws preventing the police from enforcing immigration laws, full amnesty and labor rights for illegal aliens, lax deportation laws, and driver's licenses for illegal immigrants.
The Center was a signatory - along with more than 120 other leftwing organizations - to a 2000 campaign to increase the minimum wage. The Center also endorsed the 2002 Market Workers Justice Campaign of the activist coalition Communities in Solidarity with Immigrant Workers. This campaign called for increased wages and benefits for Korean and Latino immigrant workers, including those living illegally in the United States.
The Center for Community Change is a member of the United for Peace and Justice anti-war coalition. The Center is funded by such foundations as the Ahmanson Foundation, the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Fannie Mae Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Open Society Institute, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Public Welfare Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Surdna Foundation, and the Woods Fund of Chicago.
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The fact that our so-called President's nephew George P. Bush was at the Dallas Rally should remind EVERYONE who votes conservative in this country make darn sure that no other Bush EVER gets in the oval office again.
You just can't stand it there were no incidents--NONE--at this march.
A place for FED UP American Citizens to gather, unite, communicate and coordinate the largest official 2006 National Anti-Illegal Immigrant Protest in American HISTORY!
http://www.illegalimmigrantprotest.com/
Of course I should be used to the fact that many of our big city police chiefs give a wink and a nod to ILLEGAL ALIENS!!
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Sink...... Glad to see you all survive the weekend with this march, 500,000 and NASCAR with 200,000 or so. I bet there were times that the freeways were a mess. Fortunately I guess they were far enough apart not to cause a lot of jams.
By the way when did you move to yankee country?
The plan for the April 10 Day of Action came from the grassroots. The National Capital Immigrant Coalition – a coalition of immigrant, labor, faith, civil rights and business community groups in the metro, Washington, DC area – and allies around the nation, developed the concept of a National Day of Action. Their good idea caught on like wildfire and today hundreds of local grassroots organizations and coalitions are working together in cities all over America to make our voices heard.
Regional Coalition Launches Drive To Mobilize 20,000 to Washington
“Instead of fixing a broken immigration system, Congress is poised to pass legislation that will turn all the 11 million undocumented, as well as the people who help them, into felons,” said Jaime Contreras, President of the National Capital Immigrant Coalition and Regional Chair of SEIU Local 32BJ.
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A Commitment to Building Partnerships
Since its inception in 1986, Synergos has worked to develop and promote multi- stakeholder partnerships. In the 1980s and '90s, with support from the United Nations Development Programme and The Rockefeller Foundation, ...
We didn't go near the track or Dallas, so the traffic around here looked like Saturday-and-Sunday normal.
That was a weird post, about Chappaqua.
bump and thanks for the link k1973.
The sleeping Latino giant is finally awake," said Jaime Contreras, president of the national Capital Immigration Coalition.
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Latinos force US rethink on visas
Tom Baldwin, Washington
April 08, 2006
THE political muscle of Latinos on the march in the US has forced Republicans into a remarkable retreat, paving the way for a compromise deal in Congress that will give American citizenship to millions of illegal immigrants.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,18748116-2703,00.html
LULAC is part of the National Capitol Immigration Coalition (NCIC)
http://tinyurl.com/pjwwg
Coordinated by the National Capital Immigrant Coalition in the metro Washington, DC area and hundreds of grassroots organizations around the nation, immigrant communities and allies will come together for the largest mobilization for immigrant justice in our nation's history.
The www.April10.org website is hosted by FIRM - the Fair Immigration Reform Movement, a project of the Center for Community Change.
The Center, founded in 1968, grew out of a powerful combination of ideas and events in the 1960s. Many important partners, including the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Fund, the Ford Foundation, and leaders of the United Auto Workers, made the Center for Community Change a reality.
http://www.clintonglobalinitiative.org/home.nsf/cmt/co453623DA640C97F385257133005A4B88
Background: The Generative Dialogue Project is a community building and action research project of the Global Leadership Initiative, sponsored by Synergos Institute in partnership with GAN-Net, the United Nations Development Programme, Generon Consulting and the Society for Organisational Learning.
The foreign-born population of the United States is currently 33.1 million, equal to 11.5 percent of the U.S. population. Of this total, the Census Bureau estimates 8-9 million are illegal immigrants. Other estimates indicate a considerably higher number of illegal immigrants.
They are only flying U.S. flags because the media and everyone else has told them the general public reacted in rage to the aggressive display of the Mexican flag and the dishonoring of the US flag. I know the culture...they'll show/tell you what you want to see/hear in order to get a foothold for what THEY want. I've seen the Thais, Mexicans, Middle Easterners and Eastern Europeans do it. Any nation which is not taught Biblical values is going to try and live by deceit.
Wonder why there is no blinking star in Louisiana? Interesting...
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Judy Harper, Associate Director, Border Philanthropy Partnership
What a nice, patriotic crowd!
Question: Why would they come out of the shadows? They will have to reveal their whereabouts, pay a fine and back taxes, subject themselves in the future to paying taxes, and get to the back of the line for citizenship. They will also become less attractive to employers because of their new legal status. What happens if they don't comply? What are the penalties and who is going to enforce them?
Please provide a source for your assertion that "three times as many showed up as was expected" during the 1986 "amnesty"
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