Monday, April 10 there will be a National Day of Action for Immigrant Justice protest at the Capitol. At 4 p.m. the building will be swamped by what we can only assume to be day-laborers, migrant farm-workers and landscapers from Tarrytown. All of these people are certainly going to impede traffic out of the building and prevent you from getting to happy hour in a timely fashion.
And really, isn't that the true injustice?
The city of Austin will participate in a National Day of Action for Immigrants’ Rights on Monday, April 10th. Over a dozen cities across the nation will march and rally against immigration proposals that would criminalize undocumented immigrants and their supporters.
It is expected to be the largest mobilization for immigrants’ rights in U.S. history. Thousands are expected to march in Washington D.C., and in dozens of other cities across the country. The National Day of Action is being coordinated by the National Capital Immigrant Coalition.
In Austin, the April 10th actions will begin with a Student Walk-out at UT between 11 and 2pm. The students will join with other supporters at the Capitol Building at 4pm for the main March and Rally. The marchers will leave the Capitol at 5pm and march through downtown to the Federal Building where the rally will take place. Members of diverse immigrant communities, grassroots organizations, churches, students, and unions will come out to mobilize against current anti-immigrant legislation proposals under debate in Congress.
An estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants reside in the U.S. They raise families, contribute to the US economy, and enrich U.S. society with their diverse cultural backgrounds. These mothers, fathers, community leaders, workers, students, and churchgoers have struggled to support their families despite a broken immigration system.
“We immigrants are supporting this country economically with our labor and with this march we are demanding respect for our rights and respect for us as human beings,� explains Maria Luisa Bautista of Inmigrantes Latinos en Acción (Latino Immigrants in Action).
HAR!
Ugh. Thanks for the heads-up, PD.
Lovely.
Good luck with that
ummm.... Charlie, I'm gonna be there and I'm not any of the above list... so.... add "attorney" to that list.
And, if they are a staffer worth their salt, they would have a bottle of booze in their desk or know where their boss hides it....
Eddie, I know...don't forget I'm being sarcastic. ;)
It's usually a given that attorneys and corrupt Republicans will be there.
C, Sorry about that... its Friday and the office started drinking early...
Well I guess among those day laborers, landscapers from Tarrytown, and migrant farm workers you may include some of the capitol grill staff too. I mean, some of them are surely hispanic which means they have to be illegal, right? Let's not forget about the capitol cleaning crew either. For that matter what about the Tru Green lawn services crew. They all look alike anyways, right??? Yea I have no doubts they will impede traffic. How dare they practice their 1st Admentment rights? Don't you have to be American to protest? Besides who will clean the cap complex's shitters after the lobby and the other legislative slime has befouled them and the rest of the Texas' educational system. Who will keep the ever so manicured capitol lawns from getting to ankle heights. Who will build yet another non-affordable sky rise in downtown Austin? I find it funny that the peeps who are always joked about being lazy and not interested in our form of democracy are being more active particpants than our native born residents. Hell, they're more organinzed than the Texas Democrats. Then again who isn't?
I hope the INS shows up.