The racist anti-immigrant group the minutemen plan to have a march and rally against working migrant people on May 21 @ 11:00am in Los Angeles on Olympic and Broadway the same marching route of the historic Immigrant Rights marches of March 25 and May 1st. The people plan to fight back as a mass counter-protest is being organized by students and the community. Join the students 4 migrant rights coalition and other progressive groups on Sunday May 21 @ 10:00 am to counter protest the racist and sent them back home! Students of the world unite! Time to fight back! The students are going to start @ L.A. City Hall and march through the side walks of Broadway to get more support from shoppers and people form the community. The objective is to get as many people as possible to join us for the minutemen counter demonstration in Olympic And Broadway where the minutemen are schedule to start their march an hour later...Or people can also just go directly to the corner of Olympic and Broadway @ 10:00am and wait for the students and people..........
SOS and the minutemen have black and white racists in their membership. We must work together to stop Ted Hayes.
Here is an example of true racism from SOS's last rally.
http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/?p=998
SOS and the minutemen have black and white racists in their membership. We must work together to stop Ted Hayes.
Here is an example of true racism from SOS's last rally.
http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/?p=998
The Political Battle to Stop the Klan
Just as the mobilization to stop the Klan in New York City on October 23 gave a real taste of the social forces and leadership required for socialist revolution in this country, it also starkly exposed the enemies and obstacles to organizing struggles of the working class in its own interests and in the interests of all those at the bottom of this society. These included the capitalist cops, courts and Giuliani city administration; the American Civil Liberties Union, which continued its revolting decades-long defense of “constitutional rights” for the fascist terrorists; the Democratic Party, whose calls for a “demonstration for tolerance” were aimed at trying to demobilize the working people and others who wanted to stop the Klan; Al Sharpton and the black establishment Amsterdam News, who grotesquely filed a court brief on behalf of the Klan; the International Socialist Organization (ISO), who leapt into the camp of Giuliani, the Democrats, Sharpton, the ACLU and the Klan against the PDC-initiated labor/black mobilization.
From the day that the Klan’s rally was publicly announced in a 13 October article in the New York Post, there was a contention of two counterposed class forces—those representing the interests of the capitalist ruling class and those representing the interests of the working class and its allies. The moment the PDC heard of the KKK’s plans, it applied for a permit to hold a demonstration at the same time and same place as the Klan’s announced rally site, 100 Centre Street. The call for a labor/black mobilization was issued immediately, and met with overwhelming support when it hit the streets. This mobilization had an impact on city politics not seen in years. The issue captured the front pages of the tabloids, dominated talk shows and call-ins on black radio stations, reportedly split union executive boards and drove the Democratic Party establishment to distraction.
The Giuliani administration and NYPD responded by setting to work in an attempt to block this mobilization. Colluding with them was an unholy alliance ranging from the New York Civil Liberties Union’s Norman Siegel, lawyer for the KKK, to Democratic State Assemblyman Scott Stringer and black Democrat Al Sharpton. The KKK’s rally site was secretly moved a block away to 60 Centre Street, information that was not made public for days. As it became clear that thousands of New Yorkers were rallying behind the PDC’s call, as tens of thousands of leaflets were distributed over the weekend of October 16-17, this cabal moved into high gear.
Stringer, joined by Sharpton and other Democratic Party pols, called a press conference on October 19 to announce that he had applied for a permit for a “demonstration for tolerance” at 60 Centre Street, where the Klan would stage its rally. That evening it came out, as a PDC press release reported, that Stringer & Co. were “colluding with the Klan and the Giuliani administration to cut a deal to share a sound permit with the KKK at 60 Centre Street.” The following day, Sharpton filed his amicus brief on behalf of the Klan. We fought on behalf of the tens of thousands of New York’s working people who wanted to stop the KKK, waging an incessant battle in the courts for their rights to free speech and assembly.
On October 21, a federal district court gave the Klansmen everything they had asked for and the working people were told they were to be muzzled. The court approved the deal cooked up by Siegel, Stringer and the Klan to share a sound permit and gave the KKK the right to stage their race-hate provocation in hoods with masks. The judges denied a sound permit for the labor/black mobilization at 60 Centre Street. As PDC counsel Rachel Wolkenstein declared, “This deal is an attempt to guarantee that only the Klan will be heard and not their intended victims.” She added, “The denial of a sound permit to the anti-Klan rally is a provocation against the mobilization organizers’ ability to hold a militant, orderly mass demonstration. A rally without centrally located sound and leadership is like a car without a steering wheel.”
Even the right-wing New York Post (23 October) denounced the court’s decision that the anti-Klan mobilization could not use loudspeakers at the same time as the KKK on the grounds that that would “snuff out the free speech” of the Klan. Indeed, the court ruling was a graphic illustration of the race and class bias of the capitalist “justice” system—a free ride for Klan terror and no rights for their intended victims! This was punctuated by the fact that the courthouse was literally used as a shelter for the KKK when it staged its race-hate rally.
When the Klan’s permit to rally with masks was retracted in a federal appeals court on October 22, a disinformation campaign was set in motion aimed at convincing people there was no reason to come out the next day since the KKK would not be there. A PDC press release that evening declared: “Whatever reports are circulating that the KKK currently has no permit to stage its race-hate provocation, the working people of this city have no reason to trust the word of these racist terrorists or the Giuliani administration. The only way to guarantee that the Klan does not rear its head in New York tomorrow is if the streets are filled with its opponents.”
And, on October 23, there were many thousands of determined opponents of the Klan filling the area around Centre Street. Here was the answer to Sharpton’s defense of the Klan’s right to “free speech.” Many of those who came out had personal experience with the burning cross, the lynch rope, the shotguns through which the Klan “speaks.” Despite being separated by helmeted riot cops and police barricades at different locations, they had come out not to show “tolerance” for the KKK as preached by Stringer and the Democrats but in response to the PDC call to stop the KKK.
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http://www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/archives/oldsite/1999/STOPKKK.HTM