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Minutemen Coming To Castro Valley

by noborders
A poster about the upcoming minutemen rally.
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*(Please Forward To Everyone You Know In The Bay Area)

*On April 21st 2007 the minutemen will be coming to Castro valley to
protest, we will be right there telling them we don't want them here.
meet at Castro valley bart at 11:00am then we will march to the corner
of Castro Valley Blvd. & Redwood Rd. bring signs, your voices and masks
to cover your face (if you need it)

"The *Minuteman Project* is a border security project started in April
2005 by a group of private United States individuals to monitor the United States–Mexico border 's flow of illegal immigrants, although it has expanded to include the United States-Canada border
as well. They have officially stated that, /MMP has no affiliation with, nor will we
accept any assistance by or interference from, separatists, racists, or
supremacy groups,/ although allegations persist, perhaps due to bias
against the group's political positions. The name comes from the
minutemen who fought in the American Revolution. The group's founder
and principal director is Jim Gilchrist who lives 50 miles north of
the U.S.-Mexico border in southern California." -From Wikipedia

The Description is faulty because at the last minutemen rally in Fremont
people with Nazi tattoos were seen and actually punched a guy in the
face, we don't need these violent people around us preventing equal
rights for all.

One World No Borders

Love and Anarchy
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by Chris King
Surley you have pictures to back up you alegations?
by Bulldog
How many are we expecting at the Anti Minuteman Rally?
by Resist the Minutemen
Immigrants are Not Criminals!
Immigrants are not milking the government. If anything, it is the other way around

Resist the Minutemen

(The Minutemen are a group of volunteer citizens claiming that they are men concerned with illegal immigration and its negative effect upon their lives.
They claim they have no ties with white supremacist groups; however, their language and agenda clearly perpetuate racism)

Next Saturday, April 21st 2007
12:00PM-2:00PM

Meet at Castro Valley Bart at 11:00AM
Bring Signs and Your Voices

Anti Minutemen Rally at
Corner of Redwood Rd. and Castro Valley Blvd

• Immigrants pay over $150 billion indirect taxes to federal, state, and local governments. – paying for benefits that they themselves will never receive.
• 8 million of the 12 million or so file personal income taxes using IRS id numbers.
• Immigrants pay more in taxes than they use in government services such as education and healthcare.
• They contribute over $27 billion annually to local economies and over $10 billion per year to our economy, and pay billions in sales, and property taxes.
• The only services that immigrants can still get are emergency medical care and K-12 education. In 1996 welfare disqualified illegal immigrants from all government programs, such as food stamps, housing assistance, and Medicare.
by James
Jim Gilchrist is no longer affiliated with the Minute Man Project, you moron! Get your facts straight. Ignorance is something you seem to thrive on
by Greenwood
As a financial supporter of the Minutemen (both Jim Gilchrists and Chris Simcox groups), and several other anti ILLEGAL immigrant groups I say this; NONE of these groups are anti LEGAL immigration - if they were I would have nothing to do with them, nor if they were racist in any way.

This struggle by PATRIOTIC Americans is to maintain border security and enforce laws designed to sustain a way of life enjoyed by citizens and those who have respected our laws by entering this country legally. Those who break the law by sneaking into our country are, by definition, criminals...what's so hard to understand about that?

If this country and the laws that are established already are so bad, why to people risk their lives to come here? If you are willing to risk death coming here, why not risk your life at home to make your owncountry better WHILE you are waiting on the paperwork to come here legally?

Those that have the moral character to do that have my respect - those that hide in the night sneaking into the US I view the exact same way I would view a thief breaking into my home - a threat that needs to be eliminated.
Photos from the Minutemen / anti-Minutemen rallies in Castro Valley, CA, 12-2PM Saturday, April 21, 2007.
(Duplicate post.)

86 photos presented chronologically in slideshow format:

http://mwp.jaycloidt.com/MPMOV2006/20070421CVMm.mov
(7MB)
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