LOS ANGELES, 25 March 2007--As marchers at the Federal Building denounced the stepped up ICE raids and deportations, another group of protestors mounted a last-minute anti-minuteman rally to counter the anti-migrant group's march up Broadway, the path of the one million-strong migrant Gran Marcha of March 25, 2006. A group calling itself "No Name" pulled together about two hundred and fifty counterprotestors and got a sidewalk permit to follow the minutemen through the busy shopping district. Along the way, they enlisted Sunday shoppers in their anti-minuteman chants and jeers.
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We're here to stop the fascists and the Nazis by Leslie Radford
Photos: Minutemen Demo in LA by Marcus
LOS ANGELES, 25 March 2007--The signs and flags were first, bobbing at the bottom of the long Aliso Avenue block. Then the chant, first quietly: "¿Qué queremos?" "¡Legalización!" Then louder, as I approached the marchers and the government buildings bounced the echo: "¿Cuándo?" "¡Ahora!" It looked like a small group coming up the hill, finishing up the last stretch of their march around the Federal Building, commemorating the massive outpouring of last year's March 25 Gran Marcha. But they kept coming. And just when a gap in their ranks might have signaled the end, another group turned the corner from Alameda and made their way around to the Federal Building steps on Los Angeles Street.
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March 25 Begins, Again
by Leslie Radford