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Watsonville High Walk Out 
Watsonville High Schol students walk out on March 28th to show opposition towards prop....
Posted: Tue, Mar 28, 2006 10:25pm PST
Help Student Protesters 3/29 Teacher & Ally Meeting @4PM Watsonville Pass to all who would be interested in attending...
YWCA Watsonville
4-5:30PM
340 East Beach Street
Watsonville CA 95076...
Posted: Tue, Mar 28, 2006 9:43pm PST
Accounts of Police Violating Civil Rights of Students in Watsonville on 3/27 (audio/mpeg 6.4MB) On Monday, March 27th, 2006, high school students went on strike to protest against HR 4437. In Watsonville, police responded by violating the civil rights of students, including detaining students at 2:00pm for "walking out of school" even though their school, Renaissance High School, had gotten out at 1:15pm. Another student at Renaissance was arrested after refusing to get on a bus. She was already out of school and did not walkout. (Audio is 18 minutes and 30 seconds)...
Posted: Tue, Mar 28, 2006 5:34pm PST
3/27 Watsonville HS Walkout Photos 
here are some pictures from the student walkout @watson.......my self along with other berets were able to walk with the students to make sure that police was not harrassing them. I was able to take these pictures...
Posted: Tue, Mar 28, 2006 2:58pm PST
Immigrant Rights - The Protests and Walkouts are Growing Larger in Fresno 
In Fresno, the immigrant rights marches and walkouts by high school students are growing in strength and numbers. On Monday there were over 500 students at the march and rally. Today the estimates were as high as 6,000....
Posted: Tue, Mar 28, 2006 1:43pm PST
San Francisco Declares Opposition to Anti-Immigrant Bill An energetic crowd marched through the streets of San Francisco yesterday, declaring their opposition to HR4437, the Border Protection, Anti-Terrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005. The march, which moved from the Federal Building to Senator Diane Feinstein’s office, culminated a week of action against the bill, including numerous rallies and a hunger strike. Protestors drew attention to the bill’s dire consequences for immigrants, including the criminalization of undocumented ...
Posted: Tue, Mar 28, 2006 8:51am PST
FRSC: Jenn and Ramiro of the Brown Berets discuss Student Walkouts, HR 4437 and more (audio/mpeg 4.2MB) Agusto Cesar Sandino Segundo talks with Jenn Laskin and then Ramiro Medrano. Jenn and Ramiro called into the Global Local program on Freak Radio Santa Cruz, 101.1FM on Monday, March 27 to discuss the student walkouts which took place at local high schools....
Posted: Tue, Mar 28, 2006 7:49am PST
Immigrant March Arriving at Post & Market 
Large scale photos of the march's arrival....
Posted: Tue, Mar 28, 2006 3:39am PST
Emergency Action for Immigrant Rights! Congress is on the verge of passing legislation that will decide how immigrants will
be treated for decades to come. 11 million undocumented immigrants and those who
help them get food, a job, or a home would be turned into criminals -- unless we act
now!...
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 11:53pm PST
Marches In Watsonville and Salinas for Peace and Immigrant Rights! 
Images from the March 25 March for Peace and Immigrant Rights in Watsonville...
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 7:49pm PST
Old Civil Rights Groups Missing-in-Action As Immigrants Hit the Streets As a groundswell of immigrant rights activism spreads across the country, the old-guard black civil rights movement is dragging its feet, writes Earl Ofari Hutchinson, an associate editor at New America Media and the author of "The Crisis in Black and Black."...
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 7:36pm PST
The Historic Immigration March in LA: We Didn't Cross the Border, the Border Crossed Us Don't believe the hype I was in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday when the historic march to protest the racist anti-immigration bill HR 4437 took place. For those who don't know, this bill would make illegal immigrants felons as well as anybody, including family members who help them in any sort of way....
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 7:36pm PST
Fear -- the Core of Current Immigration Debate SAN FRANCISCO – New immigration bills proposed by Congress have incited large-scale protests across the nation. Different people have different opinions about the complex content of the bills, agreeing on some points but not others. Besides debating specifics of the bill, it is important to look at the motivation behind any bill and what it seeks to accomplish. The new immigration bills before us are actually not new at all – they are merely expressions of xenophobia....
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 7:34pm PST
The Anti-Minutemen Five: Think Twice Before You Oppose the Minutemen There have been a number of massive protests across the United States for immigrant rights in recent weeks. The particular impetus for these protests is a bill authored by the anti-immigrant Congressmen Rep. Sensenbrenner and his allies that was passed by the House in late 2005 and is currently being considered in the Senate. The bill, numbered H.B. 4437, is a repressive piece of legislation authored by one of the most reactionary legislators in the Congress. Not only would it penalize undocu...
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 7:32pm PST
To the Streets! Hispanic Media at the Forefront of Immigration March LOS ANGELES, Calif.— It was the biggest protest in the city’s history, according to the local police department. More than half a million Latinos took to the streets Saturday, March 25 wearing white t-shits, carrying signs and waving American flags, along with flags from their native countries including Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and Peru....
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 7:28pm PST
Si Se Puede! Illegal Immigrants Speak Up - And America Should Listen The immigration debate has been hijacked by nasty jingoism in our nation's capitol. But now in great numbers, illegal immigrants and their supporters take to the street to protest the draconian bill that will turn the 12 million undocumented residents in the U.S. into felons. New America Media contributor Lydia Chávez is a professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley and writes extensively about immigration....
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 7:26pm PST
Over 500 Students Walk Out in Fresno 
Hundreds of students from multiple high schools in Fresno walked out today in protest of HR 4437. The students marched to City Hall where they held a rally....
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 7:08pm PST
Hunger Strike Ends - Cesar Cruz Speaks! (video/quicktime 20.8MB) After celebrating the breaking of the fast, a march of several thousand proceeded from the Federal Building to Montgomery & Market -- offices of U. S. Senator Diane Feinstein -- where they met up with the March for Peace from Tiajuana. Six-minute QT movie. 21MB....
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 6:17pm PST
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