9/9 West Coast Day Laborer March & Rally

Politicains like to listen to people that have not just words to offer but money and lots of it. Being a politician is nothing but a business and thats why the unions are getting screwd.


Since the life blood of our expensive election system is money, the politicains will always choose the corporation.

Now what the real question is: What kind of radical measure should be taken to defeat this type of threat to working men and women in this country?

1.Should it be a nationwide stike?
2.Should it be a nationwide boycott?
3.Should it be property destruction?
4.All of the above.

5. Looting

It's going to take a lot of disruption to get the attention it realy needs

I here the argument that Day laborers have the right to stand on the street corner. Yes they do, but they don't have a right to look for work on the street corner. It seems to me if the day laborers cared about the Mission and the community that they would say "your right we shouldn't be looking for work in a residential community, it's creating traffic problems, there are to many of us, we have no where to sit, we have no where to go to the bathroom We should be in a industrial area where there are proper streets for the trucks and moving vans to go down and park, proper streets for us to be picked up in." There are streets like this less than 3 blocks away from where they are now. It's called Bayshore, it's called Loomis, it's called Jerrold. The streets are double wide, it's industrial, it's still off the highway, it's close to home repair shops and more importantly it's in an INDUSTRIAL neighborhood. But that would be if they really cared about the Mission. They seem to be more intent on declaring "I have a right to stand on a street corner!", then finding a proper venue for them to be picked up in.
Arguing that it's gentrification of the Mission. Everyone could stand to read their history books and realize that the Latino population only moved into the Mission in the late 1950 and this is America where we can live anywhere we want. I look around and the only Spanish/Mexican architecture I see is the Mission. The rest of it looks pretty much European to me. I wonder what the Scottish/Italians/Geramans thought when they saw the all the South Americans moving into "their" neighborhood, I wonder if it was met with hatred and ignorance too. It seems to me like the Europeans are the ones who "built" this neighborhood. Better yet since we are playing the game of "who got here first" I wonder if the Native American Indians who got wiped out of this area felt the same. It seems like the Mexicans are practicing their own version of elitism.

I really wonder if these day laborers really care about the Mission or are just using it for there free ride because it doesn't seem they care for anyone who lives in our section of the Mission.

This is to the person who suggested looting. You don't care about the Mission or anyone in it. You just want to hang on to something you can never hope to hang on to. There are plenty of ways to stop looters.

Regards,
J.

One more thing, I lived in a 1 bedroom apartment on 16th St. for 7 years saving my money to afford the house I bought. I worked for less then $10. an hour TAXED. The Mexican who sold me my house wanted $20,000.00 more than my asking price. I told him I couldn't afford it and my offer stood. I didnt' force them to sell, didn't even ask them, didn't ask them to move to the suburbs either but they did. It seems that Caucasians aren't the only greedy pigs. I worked more than 8 years for my home in the Mission. It's funny my Mexican neighbors are glad to get rid of the family that lived in my house and were happy that I moved in because I actually care.

Regards,
J.

no race has a monopoly on greed or any other sin.
Some *cultures* encourage them though.

you bought a house, and your neighbors think you're swell. You're the great white neighbor!!

Good going.

great white neighbour hahahaha! Good one. Glad to see some people can take the piss out of these racists with good old fashioned humour.

aaron sounds like a wetback. Or another member of the jealous Grievance Industry.

the famous Corporate Grievance Industry. Lots o info here.

http://www.progress.org/banneker/cw.html
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/1998/dom/981109/cover1.html
http://www.taxpolicy.com/cwsearch/
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa241es.html
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Corporate_Welfare/Military_Fraud.html
http://www.free-market.net/features/spotlight/9702.html
http://www.eiu.edu/~kuoeng/research/cw/welcome.htm
http://www.citizen.org/congress/welfare/index.cfm
http://www.mdle.com/WrittenWord/rfinley/finley20.htm
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/3355285.htm
http://www.ccsi.com/~comcause/news/corwel.html
http://www.betterworld.com/BWZ/9608/forest.htm
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/corpwelfare/
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1215-07.htm
http://www.ctj.org/html/corpwelf.htm
http://www.fair.org/media-beat/981126.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/paul0506.html
http://www.free-market.net/directorybytopic/corporatewelfare/
http://www.prrac.org/topics/mar00/leroy.htm

If you are totally urged to respond - it took me awhile to learn this - then simply title your post "troll alert" and write "The only way to deal with trolls is to limit your reaction to reminding others not to respond to trolls.

I'm not white.

J.

There were only maybe 60-70 people there. There weren't any day laborers from San Francisco there. Only La Raza staff and some people from day labor programs from out of town and out of state who had been at some conference up in Marin.

The guys who get work on Army were annoyed because this march was hurting their business corners! Most of them don't know who the director is and the ones who do don't like her.

The SF day labor program staff fed all the marchers a bunch of lies and when they got to city hall, they were screaming and chanting and threatening and surrounded one poor fellow who's gay and called him the most disgusting name there is in Spanish for a gay man. It was a hate crime: it was carefully designed to hurt the absolute most it could. It was degrading and homophobic.

Please do not think that those people from La Raza represent us in the Mission. They are only a few people. The Latino people who live here do not like them and we are embarrassed by them. WE have lived here all our lives.

So have our neighbors. These people come in from the outside and cause trouble. They do not know us or live here.

There were only maybe 60-70 people there. There weren't any day laborers from San Francisco there. Only La Raza staff and some people from day labor programs from out of town and out of state who had been at some conference up in Marin.

The guys who get work on Army were annoyed because this march was hurting their business corners! Most of them don't know who the director is and the ones who do don't like her.

The SF day labor program staff fed all the marchers a bunch of lies and when they got to city hall, they were screaming and chanting and threatening and surrounded one poor fellow who's gay and called him the most disgusting name there is in Spanish for a gay man. It was a hate crime: it was carefully designed to hurt the absolute most it could. It was degrading and homophobic.

Please do not think that those people from La Raza represent us in the Mission. They are only a few people. The Latino people who live here do not like them and we are embarrassed by them. WE have lived here all our lives.

So have our neighbors. These people come in from the outside and cause trouble. They do not know us or live here.

There were only maybe 60-70 people there. There weren't any day laborers from San Francisco there. Only La Raza staff and some people from day labor programs from out of town and out of state who had been at some conference up in Marin.

The guys who get work on Army were annoyed because this march was hurting their business corners! Most of them don't know who the director is and the ones who do don't like her.

The SF day labor program staff fed all the marchers a bunch of lies and when they got to city hall, they were screaming and chanting and threatening and surrounded one poor fellow who's gay and called him the most disgusting name there is in Spanish for a gay man. It was a hate crime: it was carefully designed to hurt the absolute most it could. It was degrading and homophobic.

Please do not think that those people from La Raza represent us in the Mission. They are only a few people. The Latino people who live here do not like them and we are embarrassed by them. WE have lived here all our lives.

So have our neighbors. These people come in from the outside and cause trouble. They do not know us or live here.