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13 de Agosto, 2007
Nadie Es Ilegal
Categorized under Corazón | Tags: hope, Immigration, Power to the People, Protest, Republicans, Sanctuary Cities
AND WHILE SOME HUMANS FILL THEIR MOUTHS with talk of illegal beings and walls and borders and try to paint fear into our minds with visions of thugs and guns and crime and dark lepers sprinting across the tundra to swipe our sparkling slaughterhouse and fieldworker jobs and Shrinking Majorities—some humans understand hope and love and a sense of humanity that extends beyond our own vision of the Ultimate Gated Community:
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Kitty Juarez and Sarina Martinez-De Osaba marched up Main Street chanting "Si, Se Puede!"-- "Yes, we can," in Spanish-- under the late afternoon sun.The two Burlington 6-year-olds had never met before Monday's march for immigrant rights, but they became fast friends, sharing the duty of holding a neon green sign proclaiming 'Nadie Es Ilegal'-- 'No One is Illegal.'
Kitty and Sarina were some of the younger activists in the estimated crowd of 200 that marched from Lawrence Barnes Elementary School in the Old North End to the University of Vermont to rally for immigrants' rights and a living wage for all Vermonters. [...]
The rally, organized by Immigrant Rights Vermont, a local immigrant advocacy group, as well as the International Socialist Organization, the Peace and Justice Center and student groups from UVM and St. Michael's College, drew immigrants and their allies who snaked through Burlington's streets to makeshift drum beats and megaphone chants.
In addition to showing solidarity with immigrants nationwide, rally organizers called on Burlington to become a 'sanctuary city,' where immigrants would not be turned over to immigration officials for lacking proper documentation."
— Immigrant rally draws sizable crowd, Burlington Free Press
All you need to know about the Right wing today is that they are the ones who want to stain and corrupt and hiss at positive and commonly-understood ideas behind words like "Progressive," "Liberal," "Amnesty," and "Sanctuary." They don't do it because they hate the words, after all! They attack these words because they loathe the worldview that would prefer such concepts over ideas of Persecution, Torture, War without End, Preemptive Invasions, and Strong, Manned, Weaponized Walls.
Claro.
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Comentarios (4)
Man Eegee dijo:
word.
Palabras por Man Eegee spat forth on el 13 de Agosto, 2007 at 04:00 PM
El Gato dijo:
Exactamente es la verdad, amigo! Y sobre el tema de quién es ilegal:
When the Anglos declared offensive war on the Mexican people and seized half of Mexico's territory in 1848-- in regions where we'd been freely crossing that "fronteriza falsa" for centuries-- was that legal? My Latino relatives were farming in Arizona from the late 1700's, crossing over what became the frontier, almost a century before the Mexican War. Eramos los fundadores de las comunidades aqui. After the war in the 1850's, their land was seized and they were kicked out. We've never been illegal here, we and our Latino brethren started here first, and these Anglo usurpers now have the gall to call us "illegal"?
Again, this is why I'm very much in favor of home-schooling (including mucho instruction using español as the medium-- good textbooks available from Mexico in fact)-- far too many entre nuestra gente, are denied the knowledge of this true history in the still-propagandized, but generally ignorant and abysmal, US public schools. They don't learn about the very much illegal Mexican War (which the Anglos launched to spread slavery in the anti-slavery Mexican territories), don't learn about the history of our people, don't learn that we were here, moving freely, founding cities and tilling the land of the Southwest and Fla., for centuries before the Anglos seized it in 1848. If they did, then our people would have a broader view of us and how we belong in this region, how we have never been illegal, how we must resist Anglo cultural and social imperialism against us. That we were here before the Anglos came to impose themselves on us.
I want to live harmoniously with the Anglos in the Southwest and to understand their people and culture, but for that to happen, they need to show us and our culture some respect and view us as equals, they need to learn Spanish and accept our holidays and traditions and customs, not view us as inferiors who must submit to them and their cultural and social imperialism.
Nuestros niños van a entender que hemos estado aquí desde siglos y antes de las invasiones de los Anglos. Para luchar para nuestros derechos en el presente, es necesario comprender el pasado, y que nunca hemos estado los ilegales aquí!
Palabras por El Gato spat forth on el 13 de Agosto, 2007 at 08:53 PM
Tomas el Yanqui dijo:
What man eegee said.
I mean, just effing WORD, man.
Palabras por Tomas el Yanqui spat forth on el 14 de Agosto, 2007 at 05:35 AM
mhg dijo:
WORD !! to el Gato............I am total agreement with you.
That is exactly what I am talking about !
I was just telling a couple of my co workers last week that we have always been here we will always be here and that is the way it is and nothing is going to change that,it is like I said before we were not included in ken burns upcoming WAR (II) documentary.So my question is......
How can you teach history if you cannot teach the truth? The truth must be taught to our children and our grandchildren. We (Raza de Bronze) have always been here,we are native to these lands and no one had to discover us,we were already here hermanos.
I was born in Arizona and moved to Texas many years ago and we are everywhere doing every thing and spending our money on goods and services.
We now have economic power we need to stand together and support eachother.
All I can say to el Gato is WORD !!!!!!!!!!!!
Brown and Proud
mhg
Palabras por mhg spat forth on el 14 de Agosto, 2007 at 01:33 PM