PLEASE JOIN HUGE ST. PATRICK'S DAY PROTEST
AT SKOSH MONAHAN'S IN COSTA MESA!

The Collectivo Tonantzin, an organization
dedicated toward defending the rights of
undocumented workers and all oppressed
peoples, will be holding a huge St. Patrick's
Day protest this Friday night on the
public sidewalk surrounding Skosh Monahan's
Steakhouse & Irish Pub, a restaurant
owned by Gary Monahan, a Costa Mesa City
Councilman.

The weekly protests are being held to
express discontent over Monahan's decision
to vote with Minuteman Mayor Allan Mansoor
and Councilman Eric Bever to close the
day laborer center and allow the Costa
Mesa Police Department to enter into an
agreement with the Bureau of Immigration
and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to enforce
federal immigration law.

In addition to this, the Minutemen are
coming out to dine at Skosh Monahan's on
Friday nights. Jim Gilchrist was present
last week and is expected to show up again
on St. Patrick's Day.

We are asking that as many people as
possible come out and spend a couple of hours
picketing Councilman Monahan's restaurant!
Please bring cardboard signs, musical
instruments, and wear t-shirts and hats
representing the groups and organizations
you belong to!

WHEN:

Friday, March 17, 2006
6 pm - 9 pm

WHERE:

SKOSH MONAHAN'S STEAKHOUSE
& IRISH PUB
2000 Newport Blvd, Costa Mesa
(On the Northeast corner of
E. 20th Street)

See map for further details:

http://maps.yahoo.com/maps.py?&addr=2000+Newport+Blvd&csz=Costa+Mesa,CA

For more information, please contact
matlazinka@hotmail.com or duaneroberts92804@yahoo.com

Collectivo Tonantzin demands:

1. Re-opening of the day labor center
2. Withdraw the vote for the ICE proposal
3. The resignation of council members who voted
in favor of the proposal
4. Drop all remaining charges against Coyotl
Tezcatlipoca

You guys need to get a life. Instead of doing something on a holiday festive, you will be there in full hate-fest mode.

Wear green!

See:

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/1725486_comment.php

(snip)

We didn't stop coming when the Famine was over, either. We're still coming over, legal or not. The Minutemen would have you believe that all "illegals" come from Mexico. Don't believe it.

See:

http://www.irishlobbyusa.org/

(snip)

You are a racist. You will not allow an Irish celebration. This is pure racism and prejudice.

This is the new fascism at work.

I still say wear green!

You are so right - LEGAL immigration - the only way to go!

While I support the issues that the Collectivo Tonantzin is fighting for.

I don't think this action is a good idea. I think its like protesting in front of Mexican taco stand on Cinco de Mayo. Disrespectful is the word.

And it could be seen by some has being anti-Irish. Believe it or not when the Irish first came to this country they faced treatment very similar to that which many immigrants are facing today. Although it was over 100 years ago the Irish families that were victimized back then do remember it has part of their family history.

Also just going into a bar full of drunken Irish is dangerous enough. :-)
Pissing them off on St. Patrick Day is just plain stupid.

Collectivo Tonantzin should strongly consider calling off this action.

Kind of looks like the rights activists have abdicated their thinking entirely. Here we have another stupid, stupid notion.

Having the protest on St. Patrick's Day could be more appropriate: a great day to celebrate the rights of immigrants and to point out the total greedy hypocrisy of the owner of the restaurant who exploits immigrants, both Chicano and Irish.

John Earl

Having the protest on St. Patrick's Day COULDN'T be more appropriate: a great day to celebrate the rights of immigrants and to point out the total greedy hypocrisy of the owner of the restaurant who exploits immigrants, both Chicano and Irish.

Concerned wrote on Wednesday, Mar. 15, 2006 at 10:47 AM:

> While I support the issues that the
> Collectivo Tonantzin is fighting for.
>
> I don't think this action is a good idea.
> I think its like protesting in front of Mexican
> taco stand on Cinco de Mayo. Disrespectfull
> is the word.

Utter nonsense.

The Collectivo Tonantzin has been holding
protests in front of Costa Mesa City Councilman
Gary Monahan's restaurant during the past three
weeks. Issuing a call asking for more people to
come out and demonstrate on St. Patrick's Day
makes perfect sense since are likely to be more
customers that day.

If I were holding a weekly protest in front of
a "taco stand" owned by a politician who voted
the wrong way on some issue I felt strongly
about, I would issue a call asking for as
many people as possible to come out and protest
on Cinco de Mayo as well. It's a way of making
oneself more visible.

> And it could be seen by some has being
> anti-Irish.

By whom?

I'm part Irish. It doesn't offend me the slightest
bit.

> Believe it or not when the Irish
> first came to this country they faced treatment
> very similar to that which many immigrants
> are facing today. Although it was over 100
> years ago the Irish families that were
> victimized back then do remember it has part of
> their family history.

Now you know why St. Patrick's Day is a good day to
have a big protest in front of Skosh Monahan's. I
think the good Councilman needs to be reminded that
immigrants from all over built this country
from the ground up; not just "illegal aliens" from Ireland and other parts of Europe.

> Also just going into a bar full of drunken
> Irish is dangerous enough. :-)
>
> Pissing them off on St. Patrick Day is just
> plain stupid.

Nobody plans to piss anybody off other than the
owner of the restaurant.

> Collectivo Tonantzin should strongly consider
> calling off this action.

Nope.

Sincerely,

Duane J. Roberts
duaneroberts92804@yahoo.com

Fredric L. Rice wrote on Wednesday, Mar. 15, 2006:

> Kind of looks like the rights activists have
> abdicated their thinking entirely. Here
> we have another stupid, stupid notion.

This coming out out of the mouth of a person who
also thinks it was stupid for Coyotl Tezcatlipoca to
file a federal lawsuit against the City of Costa Mesa
for being beaten up and permanently injured
by cops on the night of January 3rd because he had
the audacity of exercising his First Amendment
rights.

Sincerely,

Duane J. Roberts
duaneroberts92804@yahoo.com

> www.elmerfudd.us/

Please don't stereotype Irish people as angry alcoholics.

...in the wallet!!!

Go with a large mob as soon as the place opens on March 17, order a Pepsi, then read "War and Peace".
Occupy the place on their busiest day. The regulars who frequent this hell-hole will see that it's "full" and go elsewhere.
Don't forget to tip the waitstaff, as the majority of their income is from tips.

Que viva Los San Patricios! I'll show up wearing green in homage, although I'm not Irish. Mad respects to them, but not to Monahan, the Minutemen, and any like minded thugs.

Idoits posting this stuff i was there when that went down skoch monhann is perfect human i was there that day that idoit jumped off a building he cares about his business

so some retard got fired and jumped off a rooftop thats not his fault at all

the dude was crazy already he noticed it and fired him duh


skosh mon is a beast hes cool as hell go there and have a good time honest get the fish and chips tellem i sent ya get a buy one get one free any entree with two drinks tell him dave ott sent ya


you protest your a idoit flat out retarded