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Checking out the rants & raves board on Craigslist, LAist found out that May 1 has been designated "A Day Without An Immigrant." The organizers are setting up a nationwide general immigrant strike and boycott. The website actionla.org gives details on the coordinated boycott which is being organized around four points: "No Work, No School, No Sales, and No Buying."
According to ActionLA:
We will settle for nothing less than full amnesty and dignity for the millions of undocumented workers presently in the U.S. We believe that increased enforcement is a step in the wrong direction and will only serve to facilitate more tragedies along the Mexican-U.S. border in terms of deaths and family separation.
Now, some of the brilliant posters on Craigslist, who have every right to disagree with the boycott, are talking in terms of pre-Civil War era language.
One writer says, "All I can is that I have word from my boss to have final checks ready if anyone calls in sick or walks off the job to protest that day...Here is the email for someone who is part of organizing this thing: granmarcha2006@hotmail.com. Email him and tell him that if any of your mexicans strike that day they will be firedtell him that if any of your mexicans strike that day they will be fired."
Wow. "Your mexicans." Do you think that he/she has a supply of whites and yellows at the ready to fill in?
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Wow. You would think these eployers should be the first ones to notice importance of "their mexicans" and give them the day to make sure their labor force isn't up and moved across the border. I hope this protest works out. People will see the economic importance imigrants make up and maybe take notice.
Right after they notice the price tag of 340 million that CA spends on them every year, right?
Ug, it's like prop 187 all over again. Last time I checked illegal immigrants are not all mexicans, and all mexicans are not illegal immigrants. There's definitely an important debate to be had, but when it's characterized by generalizations and offensive language it's difficult to actually discuss the issues. It's that damn Lou Dobbs--if we lived in his USA we wouldn't even have Saint Patrick's Day! I recently um, discussed this issue with my future parents-in-law, and they constantly said "these mexicans" and "our little mexicans". I'm still trying to get the bad taste out of my mouth from that conversation--I'm partly of (very legal) latino descent, and if they ever referred to me as their "little mexican",or to my family as "these mexicans", I'd scream, then go out and wave a mexican flag!
I'm pretty sure May 1 is taken already.