Posted on 03/31/2009 12:59:10 PM PDT by SmithL
Oakland — Honoring the memory of civil rights leader Cesar Chavez, about 30 students and other activists marched down International Boulevard today demanding rights for immigrant students.
"The families of undocumented students pay taxes and make an enormous contribution to our nation's economy and prosperity, yet their sons and daughters face the same kind of discrimination that young black students experienced in the old Jim Crow south," read a statement from By Any Means Necessary, the organization that held the march.
The Federal DREAM Act, which would give those students access to financial aid, was reintroduced last week, as was a similar state bill in California. Both have gone through a variety of forms and names and stirred controversy for several years.
The group started at International Boulevard and 98th Avenue and marched in the direction of downtown. Oakland police monitored the march as a precautionary measure.
A truck drove slowly down the right-hand lane, the marchers following and chanting, "Join the march! Join the fight! Let's stand up for immigrants' rights!"
Tuesday is Cesar Chavez Day, which honors the civil rights leader's birthday. Many schools throughout the state, though not all of them, will be closed in recognition.
If I remember right, Chavez was a 3rd gen American and was very much against illegal immigration. In fact he lead a march to the border demanding that the INS close it.
Ping!
BAMN is a Maoist front group run by an Asian guy who makes Bill Ayers look like a choirboy.
Everyone on this thread needs to understand that this is a major hardline racist, Communist organization with two goals in mind...kill or drive "whitey" off the North American continent and take over any property they had for redistribution to the non-white "victims" of the evil nation created by the Blue eyed Devils....
Sr. Lula Da Silva expressed similar sentiments the other day, but in a more oblique fashion.
My feelings exactly!
The only reason that the farmers signed was that Chavez aligned with BofA and that no farmer could get a crop loan without a signed union contract.
All the marchers and protesters weren't farm workers, they were organized by 7 of the 8 Catholic parishes in east L. A. that were in the district that I ran for the Assembly in 1980.
“The families of undocumented students pay taxes ...”
With what? the fake or stolen id’s of American Citizens?
I was wondering why our trash did not get picked up today only to find out the city of Phoenix “celebrates” this day.
Sorta reinforces my suspicions about a number of organizations...
CA is broken.
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