I got a new flag for you Paco.
Posted on 04/09/2007 4:42:47 PM PDT by SmithL
Los Angeles (AP) -- Immigration activists are calling for a repeat of last year's massive boycott and march that drew more than 1 million people to the streets in dozens of cities nationwide.
The so-called "Great American Boycott II" was being planned for May 1, organizers said Monday.
The first protest, which occurred May 1, 2006, temporarily shuttered businesses and schools across the country as people took to the streets in Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami and other cities.
The boycott was fueled by anger over federal legislation that would have criminalized illegal immigrants and fortified the U.S.-Mexico border. The goal was to raise awareness about immigrants' economic power.
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Riiiiiiiiiight.
Bump for later.
“And it worked so well last time. LOL”
Exactly what I was thinking. Dig that hole a little deeper Jose.
It is a good thing for Americans to see them stand up and DEMAND their “rights”. Excellent publicity.
Javier Rodriguez, spokesperson for the so-called Great American Boycott
RODRIGUEZ: Well, let me say that we have the American public now, the majority agreeing with us...
KASICH: Agreeing with what? On what?
RODRIGUEZ: Legalization of immigration.
KASICH: Legalization?
RODRIGUEZ: Yes. And empowering the undocumented community — the people that take care of their children, the people that care of the elderly, and the sick who serve their food, who pick their fruit and their vegetable — I mean, you name it.
KASICH: Yes, but Javier...
RODRIGUEZ: We are rebuilding New Orleans, remember that. We are everywhere.
KASICH: Yeah, but Javier, the only thing I’m saying is when you say we have the American people — you may, there is an honest debate going on as to whether the people who came here illegally, and jumped the line, ought to be sent back but no one is saying it should be legalized. The American people said they came in illegally, Javier.
RODRIGUEZ: John, the American people are over that.
KASICH: I am the American people, too.
RODRIGUEZ: Those people who say that have got to get a life. The American people don’t believe that anymore. They’re not there. They’ve moved on.
KASICH: You know what?
RODRIGUEZ: You should move on, also.
KASICH: Javier, I have got to tell you something.
RODRIGUEZ: You are falling back. You are falling back. Stay with the times.
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RODRIGUEZ: That argument doesn’t work anymore. It’s the right-wing Republicans, the ones that are pushing in that direction. The American public is pushing in the opposite direction. In the humane, integral, comprehensive immigration reform that will lead to legalization, that will lead to citizenship. We already had it in the past.
One of the organizers, Javier Rodriguez, told reporters gathered at the downtown Federal Building that despite recent low turnout for other immigration protests, the coalition expects “tens of millions of people” nationwide to heed the call for people to stay home from work and to march in protest.
“We expect a lot of businesses to close down on that day,” Rodriguez said, although he could not give specific projections for Southern California.
Rodriguez blamed the recent low turnout partly on fear among the immigrant community. He also blamed the media and police for underestimating
the crowds. On Saturday, for example, police and media estimated about 10,000 people marched in downtown Los Angeles. Organizers said 50,000 people participated.
“Political junctures, they come in cycles,” said Rodriguez, who was joined by about 20 people in announcing the “Great American Boycott II.”
According the the pro illegal immigration movement you might as well be holding a Klan rally.
Fox News’ “Dayside” co-hosts Juliet Huddy and Brian Kilmeade on Friday (March 31, 2006)
“If you have to dig a tunnel to get in you probably don’t belong,” said (Brian) Kilmeade of Fox News.
Rodriguez followed an appearance by New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, a Democrat. During the interview with Rodriguez Kilmeade told Rodriguez, “Can you tell them to leave home their Mexican flags?”
Juliet Huddy also told Rodriguez that Latinos are “punishing the country that allowed them to come in here”.
At one point, Kilmeade told Rodriguez that the show was not his pulpit.
Take your blood pressure meds before viewing the YouTube video above!
David Peck, chairman of the South County Cross Cultural Council, the nonprofit that runs the labor center, said the center provides a safe, orderly and necessary place for residents to hire day workers, a demand that exists outside the immigration debate.
“It’s a very pragmatic solution to a very complex problem,” Peck said. “It really helps everybody in Laguna Beach.”
Javier Rodriguez, a legal immigrant who works as a roofer during the week, left empty-handed after driving from Santa Ana to look for work.
“I wanted the extra money,” said Rodriguez, who usually earns at least $120 for a day job at the center. “I’ll come back tomorrow.”
The protest’s main organizer Javier Rodriguez has ties to the radical left group MEchA, which believes Mexicans have a right to repopulate lands stolen from them by the United States.
One of the key organizer from Los Angeles Javier Rodriguez referred to HR 4437 as a “Living Hell” for immigrants and the Kennedy-McCain bill as “purgatory.” He also reported that some companies such as American Apparel which has thousands of workers in Los Angeles area has told organizers for the May 1 rally that they plan to close down their plants hire busses for all the workers and make t-shirts supporting the rally.
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Immigrant Rights Movement Building
Toward Massive May1 Workers Rally In US
Build Support Among Trade Unions and All Workers
by Steve Zeltzer
lvpsf@labornet.org
These millions of immigrant workers need to be signed up as union members and if any are fired for participating in these actions all workers through direct action need to force these bosses to take the workers back or shutdown their operations.
Despite the flying of both US and Mexican flags by many of these immigrant workers, many of them know that their real struggle in fact is the fight against the bosses on both sides of the borders.
All Out For May Day 2006
“On April 8, we will hold a major assembly of organizations and coalitions that represent all immigrants to call for May 1 to be a nationwide ‘Day Without Latins,’ or a ‘Day Without Immigrants,’” Coalition 25 president Javier Rodriguez told AFP.
The March 25 Coalition is a group of 100 political and immigrant rights organizations who called for the Great American Boycott of 2006, which was a boycott of work, school and consumer activity to demonstrate immigrants’ economic power in order to protest against H.R. 4437, a legislative proposal which would make felons of illegal immigrants and impose stiffer penalties on those who employ and harbor them, and calls for new walls along 371 miles of the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border.
Members
* Gloria Saucedo, Hermandad Mexicana Nacional-San Fernando Valley
* Jesse Diaz, Centro de Jornaleros, Pomona
* Alicia Flores, Hermandad Mexicana Nacional- Oxnard
* Alvaro Maldonado, ISO
* Sarah Knopp, ISO, UTLA
* John Parker, IAC
* Isabel Rodriguez, Attorney
* Javier Rodriguez, Independent Writer
* Jorge Rodriguez, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
* Alejandro Ahumada, Joaquin Murrieta Association
* Isaura Rivera, Frente Continental
* Esther Portillo, Frente Continental
* Robin Potash, UTLA
* Antonio Rodriguez, Civil Rights Attorney
* Jaime Rodriguez, Activist
* Joel Ochoa-Perez, International Association of Machinists
* Miguel Lopez, International Brotherhood of Teamsters
* Oscar Sanchez, GUIA
* Nativo Lopez, Mexican American Political Association & Hermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana
* Martha Soriano, Casa de Mexicano
JAVIER RODRIGUEZ, MARCH 25 COALITION: We need 1,000 people to encircle the immigration headquarters, ICE headquarters, the federal building, to send our message clear, to push to the powers that be, to the extreme right, to the Minutemen, to everyone in this country that we are preparing for May 1 with a national boycott.
We are calling for the impeachment of George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for crimes against hundreds of thousands and millions of undocumented immigrants.
Thursday, April 5, 2007
The STRIVE ACT is Corporate Designed Immigration Reform
By Javier Rodriguez April 4, 2007
The debate in the nation on immigration reform is definitely on and the cards are once again stacked. The Gutierrez-Flake STRIVE ACT of 2007 is a corporate monster most of the way. It doesn’t come close to meeting the human rights standards set forth by the international community for the more than 200 million migrants in the planet who, by designs of corporate globalization and its rising capitalist transnational class, have been forced to leave their home countries in search of a new life.
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Saturday School for Immigration Protesters. April 28, 2006 ... Mr. JAVIER RODRIGUEZ (Organizer, May 1 March)
Javier Rodriguez, of the March 25 Coalition, which organised the event, said: “We have got to stop the approval of anti-immigrant reforms, demand a migration reform that is humane and fair, and not racist.”
Watch GWBush pay loving attention to it once again, pretending to be slightly displeased.
Someone pull a Haymarket riot on the assorted communists, and illegals.
Perhaps the “Great American ICE Raid” should commence on April 30th.
May 1, 2006 was a great day for Los Angeles. You could drive 90 mph on any freeway in the city during rush hour....it should be that way EVERY DAY.
And if you speak English, there was not one shop, store, mall, movie theatre or restaurant closed that would affect you.
Only the sweatshops, Ecoli roach coaches and jukejoints with spanish only signs were closed.
Holding this on May 1st is a dead giveaway who is behind this movement.
I got a new flag for you Paco.
Indeed....it was a VERY refreshing day. Why do I have the feeling this one’s going to be not as dramatic?
Didja hear about the August 29 march? I’m going to bed..I’ll tell you tomorrow.
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