Yesterday’s march got a surprising amount of quite favorable media coverage.
Photo by Travis Wilkerson.
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A California judge has ruled neither founder Jim Gilchrist nor three directors of the racist anti-immigrant Minutemen can have control of the group, citing “serious issues concerning the credibility of the claims of both Jim Gilchrist and the defendants…” Thus, the group is now immobilized, pending a full trial. The issue, not surprisingly, is [...] ANSWER Coalition organizer Karina Garcia helped lead a large protest against Jim Gilchrist of the Minutemen at Columbia University on Oct 4, 2006. Days after, he stormed off the air on Democracy Now when she debated him. She speaks about that, and of how the virulent racism and hatred of Minutemen needs to be [...] The Minutemen will be marching in Hollywood Saturday in support of two U.S. border patrol agents and one deputy sheriff who were convicted of shooting unarmed immigrants (one was shot in the back.). While most would consider shooting someone in the back to be cowardly and vile, the Minutemen apparently think it’s just fine, [...] In one case, immigrants were awarded a 70 acre Arizona ranch, in another, $98,750 in damages. May the trend continue. With apologies to the blog owner, here’s an alternative take on this Borat business from the Christian Science Monitor: Sacha Baron Cohen’s crude Kazakh journalist may have originated in a dissertation on the ‘Black-Jewish alliance’ in 1960s America. This can’t be true, can it? Immigrants arrested in the United States may be held indefinitely on suspicion of terrorism and may not challenge their imprisonment in civilian courts, the Bush administration said Monday, opening a new legal front in the fight over the rights of detainees. In court documents filed with the [...] Karina Garcia is Political Chair of Chicano Caucus at Columbia University and was a primary organizer of the anti-Minutemen protest that took the stage when Jim Gilchrist of the Minutemen attempted to speak there in October. A few days later on Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now, Gilchrist refused to debate her and hurriedly left the studio [...] Juan Jose Gutierrez is founder of Latino Movement USA and a primary organizer of major immigrant rights marches, including the historic march of two million in L.A. on March 25. He talks about the struggle for amnesty and where the immigrant rights movement is headed now. mp3 ( 11:36, 4.0 mb) Recorded at a Party [...] From the ANSWER Coalition listserv Mr. Minuteman, Jim Gilchrist, flees debate with student protester on Democracy Now! This morning, thousands listened in astonishment as Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, abruptly terminated a debate with Karina Garcia, student activist and Political Chair of Chicano Caucus at Columbia University. Last week on Wednesday, October 4, [...] |  | ||||
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