The march was unbelievable. Amazing. It covered 4 blocks - not as in there were people on one street stretched out for four blocks. No. Four blocks full of people all marching parallel to each other, stretched out over I don't know how many blocks. toward a rally and demonstration. I have never been at a march ofthis size outside of the March on Washington.

I went because I don't think that HR 4437 is "just an immigrant issue". I think it's an American issue. If the population of America sees itself as a population of many races, genders, cultures, orientations and religions, we can not allow the government to enact laws like this.

The rhetoric around immigration today in the US sounds so much like the anti-semitic rhetoric during the build-up to WW2. I can't ignore it, be a blind citizen, or think that "it can't happen here". This is an issue for every American who believes that we are all created equal.

There were so many people that it was difficult to get any good shots because there was no way to get distance. This is as good as I could get. I also shot video which I'll try to post.

SMASH BORDERS!
Be world travellers.
Be free where ever you go.

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This was a giant banner which read "WE ARE THE PEOPLE OF USA" - it stretched across the entire street and I couldn't get a great shot of it. Below are details of what I could get

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We didn't cross the border. The border crossed us.

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Awake sleeping giant, awake.
Awake and free your children.
Awake sleeping giant, awake.
Awake and free your Mestizo people.

Awake sleeping giant, awake.
Awake and free the little Mestizo playing kickball on the blacktop.
Awake sleeping giant, awake.
Awake and free his father from tyranny.

Awake sleeping giant, awake.
Awake to give the Mestiza pride in marrying one of her own.
Awake sleeping giant, awake.
Awake so that her mother can rejoice in her Mestizo grandchildren.

Awake sleeping giant, awake.
Awake now without vengeance.
Awake sleeping giant, awake.
Awake but without violence

Awake sleeping giant, awake.
Awake from your nighmare of colonization.
Awake sleeping giant, awake.
Awake and lead your people to self-determination.

Awake sleeping giant, awake.
Awake and give your children education.
Awake sleeping giant, awake.
Awake and end the wholesale incarceration.

Awake sleeping giant, awake.
Awake and unite us with our brothers
Awake sleeping giant, awake.
Awake and remove the fear from the others.

Awake sleeping giant, awake.
Awake and curse their wall.
Awake sleeping giant, awake.
Awake and unite us all.

Awake sleeping giant, awake.
Awake and free us this century.
Awake sleeping giant, awake.
Awake for it is our destiny.

http://www.chicanoforums.com/forums/blog/virtualchicano/index.php?showentry=49

I went to the largest protest ever in LA's history today. I wrote somewords about it and took some pictures:

Welcome Boingboingers

I found this on the boingboing site.

Here are several more (linked from metroblogging):

http://centralcitye.blogspot.com/2006/03/anti-immigration-rally.html

This is another good one.

Holy shit. I didn't know Sam Yorty had a blog. I didn't even know he was still alive.

aND ONE MORE HERE

http://www.urbanonramps.com/archives/4352