Category Immigrant rights

At least 3 million march, millions more participate in boycott [The] Headlines about the May 1 immigrant rights protests in virtually all the corporate media are some variant of “One Million Demonstrate.” These headlines are not only a transparent attempt…

Asian Americans have large stake in immigrant rights, too On May 1, 1975, the day after Saigon fell, my family and I had recently left Vietnam for the United States. So the immigrant rights rallies on May 1 had special…

Illegal immigrants whose children are legal residents by birth fear seeing their families split up if some in Congress get their way. That’s right, if the nastier of the immigration bills passes, thenԚ  parents would be deported leaving their citizen…

The L.A. Times has excellent coverage this morning. They’d seemed somewhat opposed to the marches during the buildup, however today they have comprehensive reporting. There were two marches in L.A., police estimates for the combined marches was 550,000-650,000, so it’s…