Outside My Apartment--Los Angeles May Day Rally (VERY PIC HEAVY)

I have a front seat to the May Day rally here in LA--from a 4th floor apartment on Broadway. Here are some pics, but you'll have to forgive them because they're from my phone's cam.














His sign says "We are people and not animals. All we do is work hard to get this respect you guys are giving us cuz without us immigrants this state would not be what <illegible>. Obama keep your promise"









Indigenous dancers



"Soldiers risk their lives for this country! Their families shouldn't be torn apart due to deportation! Pass comprehensive immigration reform NOW!"









Association de Salvadorenos en Los Angeles

Thank you for posting these. K & R.

:thumbsup:

I was there. :)

although to be fair, I've never been to a teabagger rally.

which means music. Plus, I have a weakness for latinas (just ask the wife- she gives me hell about it, even though that is how she caught my attention :) )

I would never have guessed that they're from your phone.

Thank you for posting!

:patriot:

it was so inspiring being out there. I even ran into a group of my former students (UCLA) and they're coming here after the rally to decompress. The crowds marching on Broadway are STILL thick and vocal.

thanks for the photos.

She's been a citizen since 1954 and she's pissed. Now they've done it. lol

:kick:

Now they're really in trouble!

Rosie didn't really believe me when I told her that teabaggers were racist idiots. Well, yesterday she saw some in action and last night, she was talking back to them via the teevee! Go, baggers! LOL

was born here, and she is pissed off, too. If we get the two of them together, there will be hell to pay :)

:thumbsup:

I love that. It is so true.

this could be our only chance to even know that it is happening...I doubt the media is interested in showing it.

Looks like a bunch of normal hard working Americans to me :)

editor@eastcountymagazine.org in San Diego

Arizona immigration law controversy hits streets of San Diego and cities nationwide:
http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/node/3219

1,500 TURN OUT IN LOCAL MAY DAY PROTESTS; OFFICIALS & CANDIDATES VOICE VIEWS
An estimated 1,500 rallied in San Diego today to protest Arizona's tough new immigration law.



By Miriam Raftery

May 1, 2010 – Across America, hundreds of thousands participated in May Day marches and rallies to protest Arizona’s new immigration law, which requires that law enforcement officers demand papers proving legal status from anyone suspected of being in the U.S. illegally. Supporters say the law is necessary to stem the flow of illegal immigration, but opponents fear it will lead to civil rights violations, illegal detention of legal residents, and a climate of intimidation.



“I am not an immigrant. My lineage goes back a couple of hundred years,” said Hugh Moore, an El Cajon resident who turned out to join today’s May Day rally at the federal building in downtown San Diego. “I went because the Arizona law is in violation of the Constitution of the United States. I am a veteran and I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution.”


60,000 marched in Los Angeles rally today.
In Los Angeles, an estimated 60,000 marched for immigration rights.



In San Diego, around 1,500 marched from Chicano Park to the federal building. Although the May Day rally was originally planned as a labor demonstration, virtually all of the signs visible addressed immigration issues—including many urging a boycott of Arizona. About 50 counter-demonstrators, led by local Minutemen, rallied in support of the Arizona law.

Full story at link above. NOTE TO MODERATORS: I AM THE AUTHOR AND OWNER OF THIS PIECE AND AM POSTING AN ADDITIONAL EXCERPT HERE ON A NEW DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE RUNNING AGAINST DUNCAN HUNTER. HUNTER WANTS TO DEPORT CHILDREN OF IMMIGRANTS BORN HERE AND CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION TO DENY BIRTHRIGHTS.

Ray Lutz, the Democrat running against Hunter, believes the Arizona bill goes too far by having law enforcement responsible for pulling people over based on whether or not they may be citizens. “Most of the law enforcement people that I’ve talked to here say they don’t want it,” he told East County Magazine, adding that the law will prevent people from coming forward as witnesses to crimes for fear of deportation.


“What’s not talked about here is the underlying problem,” Lutz observed. “The reason this whole tidal wave of immigration started in the ‘90s was because of NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement).” Under U.S. agricultural policies, prices on corn and other crops has been heavily subsidized, so that when NAFTA was enacted, U.S. farmers flooded the Mexican market with food products priced so cheaply that they undercut prices for Mexican farm goods, he noted.


“It just decimated farming down there and immediately put about 2 million farmers out of work, and others who were reliant on the farmers,” said Lutz. “These are some of the 12 million undocumented workers who had to migrate north to the U.S. because we killed off their economy.” He calls for modification of NAFTA to halt the dumping of cheap food in Mexico, enabling Mexican farmers to make a living in their homeland once again.


Lutz also took issue with Hunter’s stance on denying citizenship to children of immigrants. “If you won’t take care of babies inside our borders, what’s right to life about that?” he asked, noting that the 14th amendment was adopted following efforts to deny freed slaves the right to vote after the Civil War and ties in to the historic Dred Scott decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. “I think it would be very hard to back out of that,” he said.

Thanks for sharing. Looks like a great time!

:kick:

I wonder if San Francisco had one?

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for your work in posting them so we could see for ourselves how this demonstration went.

Thanks, tishaLA.

Thanks for posting!

There is no point in biting off your nose to spite your face because if their anger results in more Republicans being elected that party will view it as an endorsement of their racist policies and things will only get worse.

Internment camps would be on the horizon as the roundup would begin.

and stop pandering to the right. There are enough people who are now angry at both parties, to form another party if Democrats don't wake up.

Reagan didn't worry what even his own bigoted party thought of him when he granted amnesty to undocumented immigrants. His buddies needed cheap labor and he provided it as he certainly didn't do it for altruistic reasons.

No more 'lesser evil' voting. If a Democrat wants people to for him/her, they are going to have to earn it.

Actually, they're great.

I shake my head when contrasting them with those idiot tea-baggers, who have no sense of history, or ability to use the dictionary.

:thumbsup:

they don't look to be "consTITonal"

I work in a San Francisco store that sells hardware and building materials. I live in the Mission District. These are the people I do business with all day long.

K&R

K&R!

echo park/siverlake/downtown.

looks like a blast.

What a great group of people comprised of
many groups coming together to protest
this insane law.

Thank you for sharing this.

Cute kid, but lousy spelling.

I saw a few misspelled signs.

WERE RU Obama? was one.

But we don't know their economic/educational situation.
I'm damn lucky I have a computer with spell check.
At least they are involved.

we would not hesitate to mock this sign if it were
being carried by a teabagger.

http://readraza.com/maydaysmall.htm

the spirit of the marchers was infectious. joyously pissed off, that's how we acted. and note how many gente are showing their colors!

mvs


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Glad to see all the beautiful pictures from May Day.

Here's some good coverage from the Seattle march:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/edcetera/2011757265_seattle_rallies_for_immigratio.html
Featured speakers included a video presentation by Washington Sen. Patty Murray and remarks by U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott, state Rep. Sharon Tomiko Santos, King County Executive Dow Constantine, King County Councilmember Larry Gossett and Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn. Translation was made by Maru Mora-Villalpando, of Washington Community Action Network.

McDermott said Arizona's simply unconstitutional and deeply bad law was a wake-up for Congress to pass immigration reform. He thought lawmakers could do it this year. Santos expressed the solidarity of a daughter of an immigrant married to the son of an immigrant. Constantine and Gossett emphasized that King County - Martin Luther King County - is not Arizona. The victims of crime and parents seeking help for their sick chiildren will not be asked by local law enforcement or medical staff for their papers.
McGinn warmly welcomed the audience made up of marchers and supporters to Seattle. Many had filled buses from Tacoma, Olympia, Skagit and Everett. He said Seattle welcomes people who want to work, raise a family and give their children a future. "Let us work together," the mayor said, "for a better future.
http://www.komonews.com/news/92589374.html

will really enjoy that one picture, and I saved it for her.

Thanks so much! :yourock: