Saturday, April 21. U.S. Mexico Border FTAA Protest. This costumed figure

moved through the crowd encouraging people to "Play the Border Game!" The

character would thrust a hand at you full of brightly colored tickets and

encourage you to "take a card, any card!" I decided to play and so picked a

ticket, it read; "You perished along with twelve other people from

dehydration in the desert east of San Diego trying to cross the border and

avoid the INS."

The huge metal wall that cuts across the land like a giant white scar was

on everyone's mind. It loomed large from every angle in the border city of

San Ysidro (where the rally and march were held). A popular chant with the

thousands who demonstrated along the border was "We didn't cross the

border, the border crossed us!" If Big Business can move their resources

across borders, setting up factories and sweatshops at will... then why

can't people likewise move freely across borders?

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