Of course there will also be a protest.

can’t wait, the last one was HUGE in Portland =) this is gonna be so much fun, got the signs already made.

pura vida! screw the establishment that bites the hand that feeds. This should be a wake up call to our government that the boondoggle in Iraq and subsequent problems in the U.S. are going to pale in comparison to the issues that are arrising from not addressing those issues from earlier in this sentence.

the art of doing nothing is all well and good, until it becomes obvious that nothing is being done to those who do, and then a wheel of bureaocracy must attempt to catch up to the wheel of the people… which is moving faster and faster

and getting heavier and heavier. Following Georgia is not the way that this should be handled, states cannot and should not be allowed autonomous governance in this issue, this is an issue that the feds must solve, and solve correctly for once…

Our government must do the right thing, if we cant get it right in africa, asia, or europe… the least we can do is get it right (for once) here in Americas

lets get heard. woohooo!

La lucha obrera no tiene fronteras!

Wait. The threat is not to buy US goods for 1 whole day?! That isn’t going to do shit – stupid idea. Its not technically a boycott either.

Is it okay for Robles to go to Superama and buy Chinese goods?

I posted about this a couple of weeks ago, what is actually of great interest is the movie that spawned some of the reasoning behind the protest and “boycott.”

Un dìa sin mexicanos

Shifty is usually so thorough, I am surprised my post was not included in his list of related items…

Think I’ll dump my Western Union stock holdings just in case they follow thru.

Is it okay for Robles to go to Superama and buy Chinese goods?

TOO FUNNY!

I definitely agree about the limits of the boycott proposal. Fact is, though, that consumer activism strategies are new to the Mexican political community. There is little understanding of market strategies or shareholder strategies or many of the best means of leverage that we have developed in the states in encountering globalization. And do not forget that the phenomena of immigrations can definitely be related to the failures of corporate globalization.

And you would not believe how Wal-Mart permeates the Mexican shopping options, Wal-marts, Sams Club, and then things like SupeRama and Suburbia…I do not shop there and I tell my friends que no deben comprar alla...and people just look at me with a blank stare, even somewhat “progressive” folks…

That is why this one day is so interesting…if you can use this action to get the Latino community to evaluate their buying power, not only in the states and especially while facing globalization in their own countries, the impacts could be quite impressive.

Shifty is usually so thorough, I am surprised my post was not included in his list of related items…

sorry. would have included it. my mistake. just overlooked it.

The people who post in the threads but have no blogs are obviously as empty as are their gnn pages represent.

No sweat Shifty mi compadre you are always arriba de la pelota, “on top of the ball” is it were…

“The people who post in the threads but have no blogs are obviously as empty as are their gnn pages represent.“

Obviously.

Pathetic, wouldn’t you say?

It amazes me how one sided this immigration debate is. I have been detained in Mexico for being there illegally. It is no joke. The US makes it far easier to be in the US leagally or illeagally than any other country I know of. I have tried to move to Mexico, Australia, and New Zealand. I don’t know how it is from another country but trying to leave america is much harder than getting in.

i am sure your reasons for being in Mexico illegally were quite different from the reasons Latin American immigrants come to the U.S. illegally.

does that make a difference?

The US does not make it easier to visit legally than other countries in Latin America, or many other places in the world. With a US passport you can pretty much travel at will in the Americas (with some notable exceptions), often times just showing up at the border/airport with your passport. There is no way anyone from any of these Latin America countries that give easy entry to US passport holders (Mexico, Ecuador, Chile, Guatemala, etc.) could just show up with their passport (with no visa or similar document) and just enter the states as a tourist. It is extremely difficult to get into the states legally, even more so in estes días.

trying to leave america is much harder than getting in

THis may actually be true, especially if you no longer have your papers in good order, but remember that the point is that “America” is not just the USA, even if many gringos wish it were that way.

Happy globalization, we are in the sinking boat together now…no matter how many walls the society of fear tries to erect.

does that make a difference?

probably. do you think brujo went there as an economic refugee, because of the policies put in place by international financial institutions and trade agreements? i doubt that.

I wonder if we could engineer this deal.

Mexicans boycott all US goods
All illegals go home and stay there
We will even throw in 100 billion dollars to given to Mexico….a year… for ten years, no 50 years.

Now that would be a fair deal.

We have to be nice, yet talk tough on this issue.

Mexico very recently discovered a massive off-shore oil deposit.

Izzard makes a little sense when he sez :

“We will even throw in 100 billion dollars to given to Mexico….a year… for ten years, no 50 years.“

Isn’t that roughly the length and avg (inflation adjusted) annual payments to our Welfare State in the M.I., Izrael?

We give the Jews big money every year for 50 years, Jews from all over the world flock there.

I can see where if we give massive cash (and inflate our own currency in the process) to Mexico, many more will stay.

If you think very many are going to leave the U.S., they must have circumcised the frontal lobe at your Batmitzvah …

Better yet, if Mexico would just kick out all businesses that make cheap goods for the United States, make it illegal to market any goods manufactured using starvation wages period, renationalize their mining, steel industries and telecom, throw in the benefits everyone had before the mass privatizations (like work place safety), rebuild the farming communities that were destroyed to make way for Big Business – maybe 100 billion would do it (50 years definitely (although the US is $8 trillion in hock last I heard, so I’m not sure where you were thinking they’d get the cash (especially given the cream they’re skimming off of Mexico’s Nouveaux Slave Trade that would suddenly be caput) ... I’m not sure that would cover the environmental degradation.

But.

I think it would be start. For sure. Then Ford and Chevrolet can export their manufacturing jobs to China and pay the extra fair – no wait – they’ve already exported those jobs down to Central America. And China.

Whatever, if the deal includes the renationalizing of all industries privatized in the 80s and 90s by the IMF and Wall Street, I think that would be a good start.

Then maybe also the US’d have more jobs all of a sudden.

Buy you copper, silver and zinc now muchachos – them prices is goin UP.

The estimated population of the United States is 298,593,911
so each citizen’s share of this debt is $28,005.89.

The National Debt has continued to increase an average of
$2.06 billion per day since September 30, 2005!

I couldn’t find it but the latest on ctrl.org is that one figure for personal total debt is $500,000 per person. Here’s one ctrl.org quote from a couple years ago via their search engine:

Your personal share of this is a little under $25,000. If you
are married, add another $25,000. This is the per capita burden,
which includes children.

I encourage people here in the states, not just mexican, ALL people, to boycott major companies, Wal-mart,McDoncalds,Jack in the crack,Lowes etc. Instead help out your local economy. This is one way braking the chains of slavery imposed by capitalist.

yes botcott the lifeless insitutions show them we are life and we will get satisfaction no matter the depth of the strugle.

end thru boycott all relgions corporations and governments. lifeless garbage

SERVE LIFE.

“Better yet, if Mexico would just kick out all businesses that make cheap goods for the United States, make it illegal to market any goods manufactured using starvation wages period, “

Done! And we will never make money in Mexico again, any way they want it.

The people who post in the threads but have no blogs are obviously as empty as are their gnn pages represent.

GNN started as a forum. Blogs are a new feature. Whether or not someone posts blogs has nothing to do with anything. I have posted articles, you have not, therefore I am better than you. See how that works? Quite arbitrary…

A Day Without a Mexican was a pretty entertaining movie.

According to Mexico’s central bank, the estimated 7m Mexicans living and working illegally in the US send their families back home more than $20bn a year, making remittances Mexico’s second-biggest source of foreign currency after oil.

Actually, the truth is that drug money accounts for the second largest source of foreign currency entering Mexico. I’ll have to read more to be sure, but drug money actually could be numero uno. According to P.D.S., that’s how Mexico repaid American banks who bailed out the crumbling Peso in the 90s. The Mexican drug cartels lord over much of Latin American drug trafficking.

It’s no wonder Mexicans want to leave. The economic disparity caused by corruption is huge.

The key to solving the immigration ‘crisis’ is by helping Mexicans fix their country in the way they deem fair, by squashing corruption and improving wages (the very thing the American and Mexican governments don’t want).