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by SGVNPJ
Wednesday, Jun. 22, 2005 at 10:50 AM
Statement on the result of the Alhambra resistance to SOS's demonstration.
Greetings companeras/os,
I would like to first of all congratulate and thank all the organizations and individuals for responding to the call to mobilize and confront the nascent fascist organization "SOS" who tried to assert themselves here in Alhambra on June 18, 2005. We of the San Gabriel Valley Neighbors for Peace and Justice (Alhambra) are very much gratified that so many stood with us in solidarity, shoulder to shoulder, with the Day laborers in their right to work without right wing thugs breathing down their necks.
The mobilization was, without a doubt, a major SUCCESS! Not only were some 300+ militant protesters marshaled to oppose the SOS's presence, but with those numbers we were able to apply great pressure on the xenophobes for more than three hours without losing our focus and determination to expel them and at the same time, not falling for any provocation to engage the police! The energy was exemplary and made a great impact by emboldening all present while reducing the Neo-fascists to whimpers and complaints to the police for protection and insisting that we must treat them civilly in their so called right to intimidate the workers.
IN THE END, IT WAS THE SOS WHO WAS INTIMIDATED! But it was not just the organized contingents that kept them diminished, but the continuity of mass mobilization and focused "direct confrontation" that has gained us our victories in Baldwin Park (last month) and also in the forces we turned out in Garden Grove. In all cases, the SOS and their allies the "Minutemen" were stifled in their strategy to present a media event that would insinuate that there is no real opposition to their thuggish pretense to waltz into people of color communities to scapegoat.
The SOS/Minutemen want to have the same success that they had in Arizona where opposition was too little too late in their response; they thought that they can just walk into California simply with the praise of Arnold Schwarzenegger and counted on the Democrats to wage no fight! BUT THIS IS CALIFORNIA BIRTHPLACE OF THE STUDENT WALK OUTS IN EAST LA OF THE 70'S,THE HOME OF MASS MOBILIZATION AGAINST THE VIET NAM WAR THROUGHOUT LOS ANGELES AND IN EAST LOST ANGELES IN AUGUST 29TH, 1970. THE PLACE OF VICTORY FOR THE JUSTICE FOR JANITORS STRIKES AND COMMUNITY SOLIDARITY MOBILIZATIONS AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, THE MOBILIZATION OF 100,000 TO 150,000 IN IT'S FINAL MARCH TO DEFEAT 187 back in 1994 WITH 10's OF THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS STRIKING AT THEIR HIGH SCHOOLS AND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS THOUGHOUT THE STATE! I would also like to point out that some 25 per cent of the forces we had marshaled in Alhambra JUNE 18TH were of communities other than Latino and Indigenous communities. HOW POWERFUL WERE WE IN OUR CULTURAL DIVERSITY, in our sisterhood and brotherhood. WE WERE UNITED in our united front of various political organizations regardless of our varying perspectives.
I would like to point out that in spite of Governor Schwarzenegger giving public support and therefore political justification for them to attack immigrants and the indigenous we were united in our united front of various political perspectives and by that unity we were able to assert maximum pressure on the SOS and avoid repression from the police forces.
This was a continuity of the same strategy that won us our victory in Baldwin Park! I am encouraging those of us who are organizing this struggle to "smash" the SOS/Minutemen to build on this strategy and mobilize our forces to 10's of thousands and confront the SOS as we have in Alhambra and Baldwin park last month as the effective way to demoralize and demobilize their potential support. ADELANTE, ALVARO MALDONADO JUNE 21,2005
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by Jabo
Wednesday, Jun. 22, 2005 at 11:25 AM
Hey were you the communista clown in the straw hat who could not debate himself out of a paper bag?
You are an amusing character.
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by littlebopeep
Wednesday, Jun. 22, 2005 at 4:22 PM
I personally counted the counter protesting side...125, then add 10 recent illegals that were mustered from down the street where the day labor groups hang. 35 on the SOS side, some of whom were not really from SOS, but had heard of the protest another way.
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by SOS=NAZIS
Friday, Jun. 24, 2005 at 10:39 AM
LUPE MORENO is the dirty aryan collaboratist whore in the middle of this pic http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/bdaz01/DSC00496.jpg
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by SOS=NAZIS
Friday, Jun. 24, 2005 at 10:40 AM
LUPE MORENO is the dirty aryan collaboratist whore in the middle of this pic http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/bdaz01/DSC00496.jpg
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by Fed Up
Friday, Jun. 24, 2005 at 11:15 AM
Considered spam from sos=nazi..outting his hatred for a woman who opposes illegal aliens (Mexican Nationals)
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by SOS=NAZIS
Friday, Jun. 24, 2005 at 11:40 AM
Tommy the Torry has been seen at various protests with a huge GW Bush portrait which reads "Liberator of Iraq" seen supporting SOS at Alhambra But SOS members HATE GW Bush for his alleged pro-illegal policies and his friendship with V. Fox. I guess it's not that hard to totally fool Joe Turner. Tommy the Torry: http://la.indymedia.org/uploads/sos_7.jpg
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