Please help out with providing links to local media coverage of the events happening in your area for El Gran Paro 2006.
Here’s what I’ve come up with so far:
Charlotte, NC
Anchorage, AK
New York City, NY
Madison, WI
Maui, HI
Tulsa, OK
Houston, TX
Seattle, WA
Bakersfield, CA
Louisville, KY
Indianapolis, IN
Richmond, VA
Manchester, NH
Tucson, AZ
Salina, KS
Elgin, IL
Los Angeles, CA
Ottumwa, IA
Oakland, CA
Allentown, PA
Detroit, MI
Phoenix, AZ
Denver, CO
Orlando, FL
Providence, RI
San Diego, CA
Update [2006-5-1 19:48:40 by Man Eegee]:
Laramie, WY
Las Vegas, NV
Twin Cities, MN
San Francisco, CA-1 (thx librarylil!)
San Francisco, CA-2 (thx janinsanfran!)
Seattle, WA-2 (thx Omir!)
Portland, OR – (thx Damnit Janet!)
Kansas City, MO (thx american4liberty!)
San Jose, CA – (thx esquimax!)
Dallas, TX – (thx donkeytale!)
Amarillo, TX – (thx James!)
Guymon, OK – (thx James!)
Lansing, MI – (thx BostonJoe!)
Detroit, MI-2 – (thx Kidspeak!)
Oakland, CA-2 – (thx Kamakhya!)
From our very own rally in Lansing, Michigan. I’m guessing that we marched with between 350-1,000 people. The parades was a few city blocks long. Marched from a local park to the Capitol. The people united, will never be defeated.
Solidarity.
glad you were able to make it. I’m getting ready to head back to downtown where the rallies officially started a half hour ago. We’re having a candlelight vigil tonight with a reading of all the names of the people who have died in the desert. The church bells across the city are also supposed to be ringing.
Solidarity indeed. Paz hermano.
Light a candle for me Manny. I mean light a candle for the people, on my behalf (I don’t need no freaking candle — I look just like the oppressor, only I’ve got a heart).
are just a reflection of the light that exists in people like you, BostonJoe. I’ll gladly share some of that with my fellow Tucsonans in the next several hours.
I’m not moving. I’m sitting in. Right here. Until you add Lansing, Michigan to the list.
Here we are.
but that may be the shortest-lived sit-in ever, BostonJoe. 🙂 Thx for the linkage.
Amazing how nonviolent protest works. 🙂
You’ve done good things Manny. It was cool to be a part of it yesterday. Got me to thinking about how much latin-American culture I take for granted everyday. It has very much enriched my life. The food. The music. The beautiful, loving people. I’m just beside myself about this Lou Dobbs stoked minumteman bullshit. And I’m seeing it all around me in white culture. Freaking depressing.
Anyway. Power to the people.
San Francisco here
Speeches just getting started when I had to leave – I always like the march part more than the rallies anyway. I’m proud of my eighth grader daughter — she hooked up with her friends and they got the bus together from school to come downtown — their teacher gave them BART tickets! lol.
Lots of San Francisco pictures here. You want patriotism on “Law day” — this was it! Awesome.
your blog always has the greatest pictures that captures the spirit of these events.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420AP_WA_Immigration_Protest.html
I prefer to do links from the PI rather than the Times for various reasons, most of which have to do with the Times’ owners (the local Blethen family) trying to drive the PI out of business by dissolving the Joint Operating Agreement that keeps the PI in business (short story: The editorial content is different, but circulation, advertising and printing are handled by the Times).
amazing how the media conglomerates have found a way to consolidate the money and the message in this country, eh?
You said it, amigo.
In this case it’s kind of odd because the PI is owned by the Hearst Corporation and the Times is 51% owned by the local Blethen family (I think Knight-Ritter owns the other 49%, but they have virtually no say in how the paper is run, and won’t as long as the Blethens hold their share). So you’d think that the PI would be more conservative and the Times would be more in tune with the local gestalt, which is definitely liberal; yet it seems to me to be the other way around.
Portland Archives and extensive coverage
My favorite sign of course 🙂
OH and… I noticed that the nice man who always wishes me well in the morning who takes care of the complex’s grounds… wasn’t here. In fact none of the workers were here. So while in the apt office I asked the Head Maintenance guy if the men were marching for human rights and he said they sure were and with the staff’s support. I said that if I heard differently I’d start writing letters. He smiled at that and said they had a meeting before hand and were all supportive.
DJ, that’s gonna be the most interesting development from today’s widespread activism–how did it affect bottom lines? Most of the southside of Tucson was shut down today and I heard from a friend in L.A. that the morning commute was eerie, with half of the normal volume of vehicles on the freeway system. We shall see.
all smiles and happy 🙂
My favorite guy is an older gentleman. and I do mean gentle man. He speaks so softly though I can’t get his name and now it’s been so long I don’t dare ask him to again repeat it… It sounds like Eee-be(r)ldo.
hear that the smiles are continuing today, they were in abundance at the rallies yesterday. Maybe his name is Gilberto (G sounds like an H)? Just a guess.
not sure so now I just smile like an idiot and say Hola or Buenos Dios.
Shhh but my hockey nick and r/l nickname is “Azul” some call me “Azzy”. Luna Azul.
Thank you for posting this collection, ManE. I was curious to read what’s being said in places like Anchorage (emphasis on evening rally, not so much boycott.) And in Maui: “Hargrove, who is a British immigrant, said about 80 percent of her employees are Hispanic (none are illegal immigrants), and she wanted to show support for immigrants.” I like that article because it highlights that it’s not only “illegal” workers, and not only Mexicans, who have a stake.
to find those two articles (HI and AK), to see how it was playing out in areas away from CONUS. It seems like the human rights message is starting to permeate the news and motivating more supporters for their diverse cause.
Oakland, CA
The march was absolutely wonderful. There were easily three times as many people in the streets today in downtown Oakland, as there were at the last rally. The entire downtown was packed for at least four blocks and people were literally dancing in the streets. From my highrise office building, it was a sea of white.
I just loved it when I heard the marchers coming down the street, I went into my bosses’ offices and said “I’m going out to protest” and they both said, “Have fun!” I love working for liberals!
I saw very few police and zero counter-demonstrators and the mood was definately happy and peaceful.
I hope it went as smoothly for everyone else!
Here’s the local scoop on Oakland. It’s interesting that the police count was 17,000 and the organizer count was 50,000. My guess was 25,000 to 30,000.
also
San Jose CA (though I’m at work not marching).
Dont forget Dallas, Texas!
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/local/14473126
Oops. I cant remember how to make a link. Can someone help the ol ass here?
[ abbreviated title URL ]..close brackets, PREVIEW…POST
Peace
[ name of linky with no space – then space and paste the url ]
Uh, sorry. I still cant do it. What can I say. Some people from Dallas cant get anything right, if you know what I mean.
Me and Bush, for two.
Thank you for this. I’ve been struggling with that /a href thing forever and as a result, I usually don’t bother to link. Now I can link like a pro! ;>)
As I understand it, there was a relatively brief demonstration in the community of Guymon, OK. Certainly caught me by surprise – albeit pleasantly.
I read that one of the factories was forced to close due to walkouts. I wish I could find the linkage in the ether of googlenet, but alas, it has been swallowed. Thx James!
Seaboard Farms near Guymon basically shut down for the day.
Some students told me early this afternoon in my cross-cultural psych class that the Guymon downtown was blocked off, and that there was a rally in progress. By the time I got out to Guymon to check out the scene, folks were pretty much leaving. I’m assuming that it went well.
I’m realizing that I’m going to have to get myself much more plugged in to some of the happenings in my little corner of the universe. It does seem that our Latino community is getting more vocal and active, which I consider a really good thing.
Also count in Amarillo, TX.
Detroit here
It was particularly good to see the great variety of people at our demonstrations, in spite of the tremendous local pressure applied to keep people away from the demonstrations.
Check out this article about the march from one of our local blogs:
http://www.horsesass.org/index.php?p=1595
Look out for the trolls in the comments. Goldy has a few idiots with nothing to say who for some inexplicable reason choose his blog to say it.
I’m not sure I believe there were anything like 60,000 people marching in Seattle, but wow.