Day Without An Immigrant!
If you walked outside yesterday, 1 May 2006, and wondered where the hell everyone was, it's because they boycotted the economy. All of it. Yesterday, hundreds of thousands of people who weren't born in the States -- who live here legally or undocumented -- bought nothing, sold nothing, did no work, and let the States have what a remarkably vocal yet ignorant segment of the population would say is the American Utopia: a Day Without an Immigrant. There were marches in LA, NYC, Seattle, and many other cities. Tyson Chicken was forced to close two-thirds of their meat-packing plants. It's amazing.
BoingBoing has good coverage here (be sure to check out the video of LAPD brutality) and here. here you can see video of 100 mariachis playing "Viva Mexico", and John Parres' photos of the march in LA are here with some great images and fabulous pictures.
I am in a happy place.
BoingBoing has good coverage here (be sure to check out the video of LAPD brutality) and here. here you can see video of 100 mariachis playing "Viva Mexico", and John Parres' photos of the march in LA are here with some great images and fabulous pictures.
I am in a happy place.