Hispanic walk-out - 12 noon tomorrow

As I work in a HS we have been notified of a planned national hispanic general-strike/walk-out tomorrow, friday 3/24, at noon.

It is supposed to be "under the radar" and effecting the Hispanic Workforce. Apparently the organizers have purposely avoided the media while organizing this event.

Has anyone else heard of this?
GO FOR IT!
America needs to learn how to general strike.

Flavin

My husband has been saying that since 2000. We need a general strike.

Maybe the Hispanics will teach us how.

Most whitefolks aren't quite desperate enough yet.

I'm not Hispanic, but I was talking to my hsband about a national strike yesterday. I heard they did that in France the other day to protest some new labor laws. NOBODY went to work! It shut down the whole country! Hubby laughed, and said I only wish we could do something like that in the US, but it will NEVER happen. Too many people are too damn scared of the consequences.

Have you seen the movie A Day Without a Mexican? I recommend it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377744/

if it is true then i support them with everything i have.

nt

Call to action here:
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/

Peaceful Demos all week long...Los Angeles tomorrow...
New York City on Sunday!

WE HAVE TO DEFEAT H.R. 4437 NOW
Come to the March in Upper Manhattan Against H.R. 4437
March 26, 2006
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/cgi-bin/datacgi/database.cgi?file=Issues&report=SingleArticle&ArticleID=0483

~snip~

We can and must defeat the anti-immigrant bill H.R.4437.
We must put greater pressure to ensure it. The turnouts
in Chicago, with more than 300 thousand people, and other
samples of pressure, including the lobbying in Washington
of pro-immigrants and defenders of the human rights
groups, have had a tremendous impact in the internal
workings of the Legal Committee of the Senate. Now there
is the possibility that this committee will vote on a Bill
that would open a route for the legalization of millions
of undocumented people. Later, the proposal of the Senate
will have to face the approved bill from the House of
Representatives which is authored by the republicans James
Sensembrenner and Peter King.

The more diverse and strong the pressure is from the
immigrant communities, unions, groups defending civil and
human rights, churches of all the denominations, all sorts
of organizations, etc., the greater possibilities we will
have to defeat this political attack from the most
conservative sector of the United States. By way of
popular peaceful mobilizations we will avoid the
criminalization of almost 2 million undocumented minors
and more than 10 million of adults that are in the same
legal condition. This is how we will defeat this attempt
to brand as traffickers of human beings churches, social
services agencies, family members and any person that
offers aid to an undocumented person. In this way we will
avoid that an undocumented person, who is caught or a
visitor whose visa has expired during their stay in the
country, spend a year in jail.

No to racism, xenophobia and discrimination against
immigrants.

I was out of the office all day yesterday and worked until 11pm last night, have been in meetings today. What did shrub say about hispanics? PLease fill me in if you don't mind.

You arent allowed to know.
:) Whatever

:shrug:

My stepfather and my siblings are Hispanic and they hadn't heard anything about this.

ETA: My stepfather is very involved in politics and Hispanic causes too.

who is close to a few city counsel people and he didn't know anything about it either but is now curious.

Our principal was contacted by the Superintendent's office and told about the "nation-wide" hispanic walk out to protest the current administration's and republican house/senate's policies on immigration.

We were informed in case any of the 30% approx student population . decided to "disappear" for the afternoon.

The information was passed on that this was "an underground-type event" with no media involvement.

<SHRUG>

I have no links (things still happen without the internet, you know).
I have no MSM reports.
Just passing it on to see if anyone else has heard of it.

Flavin

anything. They usually support these actions.

Maybe the "walkout" thing is just an excuse.

What if we're self employed? I guess my esposo and I can go stand outside and picket ourselves. :silly:

Seriously, America does need this lesson.

:)

The politicians are ignoring the people, aside from about 3% of them.

I hope this is true and I hope this is HUGE!!!!

I stand in SOLIDARITY!!

:patriot:

it has the feel of a social engineering "experiment". I suspect that someone started it just to see how big of a stir they could cause. Even school superintendents could fall for that sort of thing.

In any case, it's no longer underground. Just by posting it, you've effectively spread the word to the multitudes.

Take the half-day off, if you want. Do you think the strikers could use some Anglo support?

one-third of the workforce of my employer is Hispanic, and I haven't heard a thing.

My natively bilingual colleague knows of my political leanings (we are practically on the same page) and she would have mentioned it, I'm quite certain.

I'm with them, if it's the case; I've never crossed a picket line, but I gotta say I smell a, well, something.

Tagline: On May 14 there will be no Mexicans in California.

Plot Outline: One day California wakes up and not a single Latino is left in the state. They have all inexplicably dissappeared, chaos, tragedy, and comedy quickly ensue. (view trailer)

User Comments: Muy Bueno! (more)


http://www.adaywithoutamexican.com/dos.html

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377744/

Poignant and entertaining!

lowered expectations, but the premise will have you talking, guaranteed.

Subject: MARCH 25TH IMMIGRATION RIGHTS MARCH -
GREEN/MILLION VOTES FOR PEACE &
MORE

* the Million Votes for Peace Contingent needs to meet at
9am at
Hill and Olympic or it will be too packed****(please read
my logistics;
below the march announcement---Sarah)Saturday, March 25th
at
10:00AM (Meet up 9am to march with Greens/Million Votes for
Peace, Centro
Azteca, ISO, and others);Los Angeles March;to;Support the
Immigrant
Rights!;Meet at
Hill and Olympic in DOWNTOWN; LOS ANGELES
9:00AM
;March to City Hall - Unite Against Anti-Immigrant
Legislation
"HR 4437 could signal some of the most sweepingly dramatic
changes
in immigration law..." March 2, 2006
the Southern California based coalition "March 25 Coalition
Against HR4437"
held a press conference to announce a major mass
mobilization against the
passage of the Sensenbrenner Bill, to be held in downtown
Los Angeles on
Saturday March 25, 2006. The march expected to be the
largest in the country
to date will also demand an integral, comprehensive and
family oriented
immigration reform that will lead to the legalization and
eventual citizenship
for the 12 million undocumented immigrants in this country.

The Coalition calls on all immigrants and all Californians
of all colors and
creeds, labor, clergy, community and political
organizations, students and
youth to protest, make their voices heard and galvanize the
movement for
humane immigration reform all the way to Washington DC. The
US Senate is
expected to begin debate on the Senate floor on March 27.

The Coalition publicly calls on and invites Mayor Antonio
Villaraigoza, LA
Council President Eric Garcetti, Assembly Speaker Fabian
Nunez, and Senators
Gil Cedillo and Gloria Romero to join and repudiate the
"wall of shame" and
the criminalization of immigrants as felons proposed in the
House
approved "Border Protection and Antiterrorist and Illegal
Immigration Control
Act" on Dec. 15, 2005. The coalition leaders also makes a
special call
to all the members of the wide and popular Spanish language
media and
progressive media to assist them in making MARCH 25 the
largest demonstration
in support of immigrant workers and their families in
recent history.
*********************************************************************Note
from
Sarah---
People are reportedly bringing buses from all over the
state. Parking
will be very difficult, and they are talking about renting
Dodger Stadium.
The bus drop-off is 11th and Broadway. (again, see map).
Everyone needs to fully appreciate the amount of time it
will take to park
The march will start lining up at Olympic and Broadway.
(see map
below). As that fills up, they are going to move the
soundtruck north on
Broadway. The march goes up Broadway to
1st street. The main stage will be on 1st between Main and
Spring. The general staging area is between in the square
between 1st
and Temple on the North and South, Main and Spring on the
East and West.
SEIU 1877 Justice for Janitors will be running the
logistics There will
only be port-a-potties in the staging area at the end, and
it’s very difficult
to go to the bathroom in these areas. William and I will be
speaking
toward the beginning of the rally.

BRING SUNSCREEN, BRING WATER, BRING FOOD, WEAR WHITE and
your Million Votes
for Peace button. Leave a very long time for parking. If
you're
not on time you will have a difficult time finding us.

march in Milwaukee "A day without a Latino" fyi

huge turn out for it too. CNN interviewed a woman this morning who was involved with organizing it here and she talked about how it (the march) was a response to Sensenbastard.

:hi:

It would mean that the traffic will be a little better this afternoon with less cars on the road.

http://www.mylatinonews.com/

I posted this yesterday but it sank quickly. The front page yesterday had Hillary's Immigration Legislation statement and today the Milwaukee Latino Walkout.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=734086&mesg_id=734086

It's time for white people to wake up!

(I'm white with a spanish surname for what it's worth!)

Links and info here:

http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/

It was very impressive.

Thanks for the reminder to do it.

10,000 protestors marching in Phoenix???

WOW!!!!

No Human is Illegal!

http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/

Say NO to racism, xenophobia and discrimination against
immigrants!

It's about time! Politicians have tried to direct the blame onto people who break their backs earning the right to live in this country. People of both parties are now up in arms about "all these stinkin' illegals" stealing the jobs of righteous citizens..."criminals" lowering our wages and crowding our medical facilities.

I'm sick of hearing it! The Democratic Party used to stand for the solidarity of workers, wherever they might live. Any issue involving an attack on labor used to be their call to arms. Now, in defense of their corporate masters, suddenly all the woes of the working man in this country are to be found in the Chicano "problem". They've shifted the blame to Latinos, when in fact it's the very nature of the system to enslave the working class and pit the middle class against them.

Keep us divided and we will only fail!

Viva La Huelga! Unity is Strength!

The Workers United Will Never Be Defeated!