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Headlines : Human Rights50,000 throng downtown in immigrant-rights march
50 to 100 thousand strong joined in peaceful non-violent protest, no arrests, no rubber bullets, no tear gas, only peace and solidarity. This was by far the most people to ever take to the streets in San Diego. An amazing inspiring powerful event the really shows the unity and support here in the San Diego Community for immigration reform.
What touched me the most was I saw families picking up trash as they walked through the streets so as to not give the media an excuse to demonize the march.
The one correction to this article I would make is the counter-protest stated as 60 people was closer to 25.
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[Posted By phoenix_rising]Republished from Union Tribune (Copley Press)
April 10, 2006
Tens of thousands of people marched through downtown San Diego yesterday afternoon in support of immigrant rights, waving flags and chanting slogans in what appears to be the largest public demonstration in city history.
Police said at least 50,000 people walked from Balboa Park to the County Administration Center, while march organizers put the number at 100,000. The crowd was so large it spanned Sixth Avenue from sidewalk to sidewalk. Police described the event as peaceful, with no arrests reported.
The sea of flags that filled the streets represented much of the ethnic makeup of San Diego’s immigrants: American flags were joined predominantly by Mexican flags, but also by those of Brazil, Guatemala, El Salvador, Peru, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Greece and elsewhere.
“We are all in the same boat,” said Marcel Macado, 33, an immigrant from Brazil who marched with several compatriots. “We are all immigrants.”
The main focus of the march, organized by a coalition of community, labor and religious groups, was to protest a House bill approved in December that is seen by immigrant-rights advocates and many immigrants as overly punitive.
Among other things, House Resolution 4437 seeks to make it a felony to be in the…
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‘The World Can’t Wait’ is a front group for the RCP.
just so you know.
don’t be co-opted.
thanks for the info shift i’ll be sure to read up on that