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After the Protests, San Francisco Activists Must Build Latino Power Latino immigrants and their supporters have shown unexpected strength the past two weeks, leading many to ask what will happen to this growing movement once the fate of the pending immigration bill is resolved. San Francisco activists should be raising a similar question. San Francisco’s large Latino community has remained a politically sleeping giant for decades, securing few elected positions and exercising nowhere near the clout of Latinos in San Jose, Los Angeles, or even Orange County. W...
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 9:50am PDT
US: Over a million protest against anti-immigrant legislation Well over a million immigrant workers and their supporters joined marches and rallies in cities from coast to coast beginning Sunday and continuing Monday to protest against reactionary legislation approved by one house of Congress that would treat undocumented workers in the US—as well as anyone who provides them with aid or support—as criminal felons....
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 9:37am PDT
Eighth Grader Commits Suicide After Being Threatened With Jail Time for Organizing Walkout An eighth grader in California killed himself two weeks ago after being threatened by a school official for participating in the student immigrant rights walkouts. Anthony Soltero, 14, died after he shot himself in the head on March 30th. We speak with the attorney representing Soltero's mother....
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 9:34am PDT
Dallas High School Student Describes Organizing Mass Walkout We speak with Gustavo Jimenez, a junior at Duncanville High School who helped lead a student walk-out in Dallas last month that saw thousands of students leave classes to protest proposed anti-immigrant legislation....
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 9:33am PDT
Immigrant Rights Protests Rock the Country In an unprecedented wave of protests, as many as two million people took to the streets Monday in more than 100 cities and towns around the country to march for immigrant rights. We hear some of the speakers at the largest rallies in New York and Washington and we speak with some of the demonstrators about why they are taking to the streets....
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 9:31am PDT
This Ain't No Hippie Peace Movement Pundits and commentators missed the skill and potency of student walkouts protesting the Sensenbrenner bill, instead choosing to criticize something they don't understand. Daffodil Altan is a writer and editor at New America Media. Additional reporting by Carolyn Goossen....
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 9:29am PDT
march for immigrant rights! Si Se Puede! tens of thousands march for immigrant rights!...
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 9:26am PDT
Largest March in the History of Fresno 
Over 10,000 immigration rights supporters marched to downtown Fresno today (April 10, 2006). The march started at Saint Anthony Claret church and ended at City Hall. Along the way thousands of immigrants and their allies joined the march, ultimately making it the largest political march in Fresno’s history....
Posted: Mon, Apr 10, 2006 11:26pm PDT
Oakland Immigrant Rights March at City Hall 
as seen from the 11th floor of Oakland City Hall...
Posted: Mon, Apr 10, 2006 10:42pm PDT
UC Berkeley Students Walkout in Support of Student Rights UC Berkeley Students, joined by high school students, walked out of classes today demanding amnesty and civil rights for immigrants in a joint protest with Palestinian solidarity groups commemorating the Deir Yassin massacre....
Posted: Mon, Apr 10, 2006 10:07pm PDT
Thousands in SF March for Immigrant Justice 
San Francisco, California (April 10, 2006) – About five thousand people marched this evening through San Francisco’s Mission District in support of immigrant rights. From 16th Street to 24th Street, thousands of immigrant workers, families, youth, and supporters marched down the middle of Mission Street. This was only one of hundreds of actions today being held under the “National Day of Action for Immigrant Justice” banner (http://www.april10.org)....
Posted: Mon, Apr 10, 2006 9:35pm PDT
April 10 San Jose Immigrant Rights March 
On April 10, tens of thousands of people marched from East San Jose to City Hall--a three mile trek--to support immigrant rights. It was part of a national groundswell in support of the undocumented....
Posted: Mon, Apr 10, 2006 8:51pm PDT
video from immigration rally @ mission and 24th I have a video from today's rally that I will share with someone who wants this kind of footage. Lots of crowd shots/ b roll, etc....
Posted: Mon, Apr 10, 2006 8:50pm PDT
10-12,000 March in Fresno 
Photos from the April 10, 2006 march for immigrant rights in Fresno. More photos and short story to be posted later tonight....
Posted: Mon, Apr 10, 2006 5:54pm PDT
Stanford Students Support Immigrant Rights! Students organized a rally at Stanford in conjunction with the National Day of Action for Immigrant Rights. They blocked off two traffic arteries off White Plaza to draw attention to the problems of "borders."...
Posted: Mon, Apr 10, 2006 5:25pm PDT
SF March for Amnesty to rally beginning at 6 P.M. (video/quicktime 10.8MB) Press Conference was held at 11am to announce the March for Amnesty in San Francisco.
Three-minute QT movie. 11MB....
Posted: Mon, Apr 10, 2006 4:56pm PDT
Thousands Join Oakland March for Immigrant Justice 
Oakland, California (April 10, 2006) – Nearly five thousand people marched and rallied this morning in Oakland for immigrant rights. What began as a relatively small group at 100th avenue this morning, swelled to thousands as clusters of immigrant workers, families, youth, and supporters awaited the march all along International Boulevard. The eight mile march ended with a rally outside the Oakland Federal Building. This was only one of hundreds of actions today being held under the “National...
Posted: Mon, Apr 10, 2006 4:48pm PDT
Large Immigrant's Rights Protest in San Rafael 
A crowd of up to 3000 exhuberent protestors took the streets of San Rafael to
stand up for immigrant rights....
Posted: Mon, Apr 10, 2006 2:02pm PDT
Immigration bill spurs brief boycott of Miller Brewing Washington - Opposition to Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner's immigration bill led one Chicago group to launch a boycott of Miller Brewing Co. this month because Miller is a Wisconsin company that has made contributions to the GOP lawmaker....
Posted: Mon, Apr 10, 2006 7:44am PDT
Thousands Rally for Immigrants Across U.S. Hundreds of Thousands in Dallas, Other U.S. Cities Rally for Legalizing Undocumented Immigrants...
Posted: Mon, Apr 10, 2006 7:43am PDT
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