{"article":{"id":131085,"heading":"LA TIMES LOVES JOE TURNER","author":"Fred Alvarez","created":"2005-06-30 10:05:55","modified":"2006-04-26 00:54:56","last_modified":"Wed, 26 Apr 2006 07:54:56","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>hey got all of the fight they could handle. Hundreds of counter-protesters in the predominantly Latino city rose up to meet them, chanting \"Go home, racists!\" As news crews captured the clash, police in riot gear called for reinforcements. <br><br> The group's protests had drawn fire before, but nothing like what erupted last month in the working-class community. <br><br> \"I couldn't have scripted it better,\" said Turner, a former stock trader who runs the anti-illegal immigration group from his Ventura home.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-profile27jun27.story","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"A Street-Fighter Mentality on Illegal Immigration\r\nBy Fred Alvarez, Times Staff Writer\r\n\r\nAs the insults flew and the protest reached a boil, Joseph Turner couldn't help but smile.\r\n\r\nThe 29-year-old head of the upstart Save Our State organization had come to Baldwin Park to pick a fight over illegal immigration. He had led a band of like-minded souls into the heart of the city to protest public art they deemed &quot;seditious and anti-American.&quot; Part of a monument at the Metrolink station is inscribed &quot;It was better before they came,&quot; interpreted by some as a barb at whites who displaced California's Mexican residents in the 19th century.\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-profile27jun27.story","numcomment":4,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2005\/06\/131085.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":131213,"heading":"we are latinos","article":"we are not latinos , we are mexican buddie .","author":"naui hutzilopochtli","parent_id":131085,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-07-01 15:16:16","modified":"2005-07-01 15:16:16","fileurl":""},{"id":131264,"heading":"Dissention in the Ranks?","article":"http:\/\/www.saveourstate.org\/forums\/index.php?showtopic=2851&view=findpost&p=25115\r\n\r\nAugustin Cebada bemoaning the self-hating whites trying to aid the &quot;reconquista&quot; cause.","author":"Voice of Reason II","parent_id":131085,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-07-01 22:17:55","modified":"2005-07-01 22:17:55","fileurl":""},{"id":131292,"heading":"That Poster is Bad","article":"The comment by Augustin Cebada is incorrect.  The ISO and SCHRN were organizing against SOS before other groups.  The larger movement to deal with the MMP was focused on the border, but ISO was out there counter-protesting the SOS.  The larger movement around Baldwin Park happened somewhat spontaneously, but was sparked by several different groups jumping on the issue at the same time.\r\n\r\nThe first BP demo was a confluence of efforts.  The arts community got involved.  The Chicano nationalist groups showed up.  (Note that they didn't seem to be present to counter-protest SOS in Laguna Beach.)  Immigrant rights groups got involved.  MEChA was involved.  A lot of anarchists got on board.  And, most significantly, there were activists in Baldwin Park who took up the issue and actively organized around it.\r\n\r\nThe second BP demo seemed to be more of a effort by organizations to out-organize each other.","author":"johnk","parent_id":131085,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2005-07-02 04:44:44","modified":"2005-07-02 04:44:44","fileurl":""}]}