Thousands of Students Stage Walk-out in Tucson : AZ IMC

More than 3,000 students from across town left classes today to protest HR 4437 and demand comprehensive immigration reform. Today's walk-out and protest was the largest of five solid days of protest, joining a phenomenon that is sweeping the country.

Among the schools represented today were many middle schools, as several high schools who had participated earlier in the week chose to direct their energies toward organizing for Sunday's Cesar Chavez march and the national day of action on April 10.

Despite appeals by parents and teachers, students once again left their schools - at times climbing over fences that had been locked in attempt to prevent the protests. Police response was reserved. Traffic was tied up through much of downtown. It is reported that one student from Hohokam high school was struck by a car after a frustrated driver hurled racist slurs at her. This report has not yet been confirmed.

After rallying at the federal building and the federal courthouse for several hours, many students boarded busus to return to classes, while still others attended a rally organized at Pueblo High School.

Photos and audio of today's demonstration will be posted soon..

Please don't surrender!
we fight against unfair law in France too, we have the same goal.
let's go!

Keep walking kids, all the way back to Mexico where all you fuckers belong!! And as a sidenote FUCK FRANCE TOO.

Hohokam is a middle school NOT a high school.

They locked down school to keep students from speaking out about something that will dramatically affect all of our lives? This is an outrage!!

Well, the people who are insisting on importing illegal aliens far faster than our society can abosorb them, whether to swell the ranks of their voters (Democrats) or to provide cheap labor for their industries, have been asking for a confrontation and now they have it.

Sure, the radicals putting on these highly orchestrated mob demonstrations have gotten more sophisticated lately, and have now turned to waving the American flag rather than burning it, as they did not so long ago, but they still chant the rhetoric of the revolutionary Chicano, La Raza, Aztlan movement.
So don't be under any doubt where their sympathies and objectives lie.

I thought my son ws being follish to walk into these demonstrations, which surely would have resulted in violent attacks from the Left Wingers, who seem to feel they have a monopoly on the right to demonstrate and attack this country. But he chose to do so, and I must say, he showed some commendable ingenuity when he told that crowd, a mixture of more or less innocent Mexicans and the Liberal agitators who are leading them, that instead of trying to force their way into the United States in defiance of our laws, they should return to Mexico where they have been exploited mercilessly for generations.

Everone with a lick of sense knows that the Zapatistists were cheated out of the rights they won over 80 years ago, and that the Mexical oligarchy has been shoving them from Chiapas northward in hopes of getting rid of their dissidents while still retaiing the stream of wealth being returned to Mexico by their people working in the US.

And so I say, Good Luck to you, my son. I just hope the bastards don't kill you. But they'll harass you mercilessly until the end of your days, because they don't want people, not even their own people, to know the truth. They just want victory over the Anglos who worked hard and turned that worthless desert we bought from Mexico in the 1840s and '50s with solid money, and if you bother to read their literature, you will see that they don't make any bones about it.

The Mexicans never did hold these territories, not at any tiime in history. Their claims are just as spurious as their demands. If you want to know what horrible savages their ancestors were when the Spanish conquered Mexico, just read Bernal Diaz' The Conquest of New Spain. He was there, every foot of the way. It will make your blood curdle to read his eye-witnessed stories of bloody sacrifices and open cannibalism.

Join the Howard Beale Memorial Society. Denounce the Hypocrisies of our Times. Fight back. We're Mad as Hell and We Aren't Going to Take it Anymore.

Lew Warden

I, King Carl Buttinski, Do here-by declare that as of today it will become legal to enslave any Mexican in this Country without the proper papers.I personally plan on owning several of them to pull a plow on my farm. King Carl the Great has spoken.

If you cannot see the beauty in the world, you must be very ugly inside. I hope you can begin to appreciate life and to not take your affluent lifestyle for granted; everything you have could be gone at any time. Enjoy it while you can.

I agree with you that if Mexico’s economy could offer livable wages, not so many people would attempt to cross the border illegally. Perhaps economic policies of Mexico make it difficult for economic expansion, but that has a lot to do with U.S. policies as well. Perhaps you should do a little research on the economy of Mexico and tell me whether it is capable of sustaining the population of Mexico. The economic infrastructure needs to be developed first, which is much easier said than done. Economic development in Mexico is the only REAL solution to our immigration problem; if they could feed they're family there, they wouldn't come here.

Do expect them to just stay and starve? Wake up- you have a better life than almost everyone else on Earth. And the immigrating Mexicans are only attempting to do what American ancestors did: work for a better life for themselves and their children. Other people have desires too.

Furthermore, what do you mean by the “hard work of the Anglos”? Seizure of occupied lands and mass genocides??? Or just exploitation of the environment? Deforestation; mine tailings; slaughtered buffalo, wolves, and bears; polluted rivers and desertification; etc.etc.etc. What are you so proud of??????

I think y'all are just scared that our un-sustainable way of living is doomed. I hope your son realizes what it will take to survive in the future because the skills of contemporary society will not keep him alive when our consumptive-growth based system fails.

We'll see who is right and wrong via natural selection.

Empires always fail…

(and for the last comment on slavery, your proposition is suicide saying Mexican swill soon no longer be a minority... maybe they'll enslave you instead?)

I AM SO SORRY THAT AS MANY OF OUR CHILDREN IN THIS COUNTRY YOU HAVE RECEIVED A BIAS AND ONE SIDED "STORY." TO BEGIN WITH WHY WOULD THE MAJORITY OF US RETURN TO PROTEST IN MEXICO IF WE ARE US BORN CITIZENS, IF I HAD BEEN BORN IN MEXICO MAYBE YOUR RIGHT I WOULD BE WORKING AGAINST THE VIOLATIONS OF THE AGRARIAN LAND REFORM OF 191O THAT ARE CURRENTLY BEING VIOLATED BY U.S. COMPANIES AND GOVERNMENT...IT IS CALLED THE NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT WHICH HAS NOT ONLY DISPLACED WORKERS IN THE USA BUT ALSO CREATED A NEW GENERATION OF WORKING POOR IN MEXICO. SECONDLY THE U.S. NEVER LEGALLY BOUGHT MEXICO AND IF YOU HAVE READ ANY MEXICAN TEXT BOOK ON HISTORY, MEXICO DOES NOT RECOGNIZE THE SALE OF THE LANDS.... IF YOU READ HISTORY THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT ACTUALLY GRANTED AMNESTY TO MANY GRINGO FAMILIES THAT ENTERED THE SOUTHWEST. AND FINALLY SURE IF YOU'D LIKE TO VALUE BERNAL DIAZ DEL CASTILLO AS ANY POINT OF REFERENCE TO WHO THE PEOPLE OF THE AMERICAS WHERE THEN LETS JUST START READING HITLER’S INTERPRETATION THE GERMAN JEWS, OR FOR THAT MATTER. LETS PRETEND THAT THE ONLY CIVILIZED NATION 1000 YEARS AGO WHERE THE ANGLO SAXONS, AND WE CAN PRETEND THAT AS THEY STILL LIVED IN THE CAUCASOID MOUNTAINS OF EASTERN EUROPE, THE ARAB PEOPLE HAD NEVER ERECTED GREAT CITIES, TEMPLES OF WORSHIP OR FORMULATED THEORIES IN MATH, AND THE CHINESE PEOPLE HAD NOT DEVELOPED GREAT EMPIRES, RICH IN HISTORY, TRADITION AND HOMEOPATHIC HEALING, OHH YEAH AND LETS ALSO PRETEND THAT WHILE THE ANGLO SAXON WAS STILL FASCINATED WITH THE FLICKERING LIGHT OF A FIRE, OUR AFRICAN SISTERS AND BROTHERS HAD NOT CREATED MAGNIFICENT FEATS OF ARCHITECTURE, AND THAT THE INCAN HAD NOT BEGUN TO PERFORM BRAIN SURGERIES, OR THAT THE MAYA HAD DEVELOPED THE CONCEPT OF ZERO OR THE MEXICA (AZTEC AS YOU KNOW THEM) HAD NOT ESTABLISHED TRADE ROUTES WITH OUR NORTHERN NATIONS. YES, LETS JUST PRETEND THAT THE CAUCASOID WHERE A PERFECT PEOPLE AND NEVER WARRED AND FOR THAT MATTER NEVER CRUCIFIED THE SON OF THEIR OWN GOD. LET'S JUST FORGET THE REAL FACTS AND LIVE IN A FANTASY WORLD WERE THE HOME YOU LIVE IN WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HANDS OF MY PEOPLE. THAT AN OVERWORKED BROTHER OF MINE DID NOT PICK FOOD YOU AND YOUR FAMILY ENJOY, OR WHERE THE NANNY THAT WIPES YOUR KIDS DOWN ISN'T ONE OF MINE. YOU HOLD SO MUCH HATE AND CONTEMPT FOR MY PEOPLE (AND I MEAN EVERYONE INDIGENOUS FROM TIERRA DEL FUEGO TO THE BERING SEA) THEN TOMORROW WHEN YOU WAKE UP GO INTO THE OUT SKIRTS OF YOUR CITY [ WHICH EITHER WAY IS MY PEOPLES HOMELAND BUT WE WILL OVER LOOK THAT ONE] PLANT YOUR OWN FOOD, RAISE YOUR OWN CATTLE OR GAME, MAKE YOUR OWN CLOTHS, BUILD YOUR OWN HOME, [WITHOUT ANY DAY LABORERS KEEP THIS IN MIND AND WITHOUT BUYING BRICKS OR CONCRETE THAT IS IMPORTED FROM MEXICO], AND THEN COME BACK AND YOU CAN COMPLAIN ABOUT THE DISSERVICE OR ATROCITIES THAT MY PEOPLE COMMIT, UNTIL THEN ENJOY THE FRUIT OF OUR HARD LABOR, IT COMES AT A REASONABLE PRICE JUST ASK WAL-MART.

I AM SO SORRY THAT AS MANY OF OUR CHILDREN IN THIS COUNTRY YOU HAVE RECEIVED A BIAS AND ONE SIDED "STORY."
TO BEGIN WITH WHY WOULD THE MAJORITY OF US RETURN TO PROTEST IN MEXICO IF WE ARE US BORN CITIZENS, IF I HAD BEEN BORN IN MEXICO MAYBE YOUR RIGHT I WOULD BE WORKING AGAINST THE VIOLATIONS OF THE AGRARIAN LAND REFORM OF 191O THAT ARE CURRENTLY BEING VIOLATED BY U.S. COMPANIES AND GOVERNMENT...IT IS CALLED THE NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT WHICH HAS NOT ONLY DISPLACED WORKERS IN THE USA BUT ALSO CREATED A NEW GENERATION OF WORKING POOR IN MEXICO.
SECONDLY THE U.S. NEVER LEGALLY BOUGHT MEXICO AND IF YOU HAVE READ ANY MEXICAN TEXT BOOK ON HISTORY, MEXICO DOES NOT RECOGNIZE THE SALE OF THE LANDS.... IF YOU READ HISTORY THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT ACTUALLY GRANTED AMNESTY TO MANY GRINGO FAMILIES THAT ENTERED THE SOUTHWEST.
AND FINALLY SURE IF YOU'D LIKE TO VALUE BERNAL DIAZ DEL CASTILLO AS ANY POINT OF REFERENCE TO WHO THE PEOPLE OF THE AMERICAS WHERE THEN LETS JUST START READING HITLER’S INTERPRETATION THE GERMAN JEWS, OR FOR THAT MATTER.
LETS PRETEND THAT THE ONLY CIVILIZED NATION 1000 YEARS AGO WHERE THE ANGLO SAXONS, AND WE CAN PRETEND THAT AS THEY STILL LIVED IN THE CAUCASOID MOUNTAINS OF EASTERN EUROPE, THE ARAB PEOPLE HAD NEVER ERECTED GREAT CITIES, TEMPLES OF WORSHIP OR FORMULATED THEORIES IN MATH, AND THE CHINESE PEOPLE HAD NOT DEVELOPED GREAT EMPIRES, RICH IN HISTORY, TRADITION AND HOMEOPATHIC HEALING, OHH YEAH AND LETS ALSO PRETEND THAT WHILE THE ANGLO SAXON WAS STILL FASCINATED WITH THE FLICKERING LIGHT OF A FIRE, OUR AFRICAN SISTERS AND BROTHERS HAD NOT CREATED MAGNIFICENT FEATS OF ARCHITECTURE, AND THAT THE INCAN HAD NOT BEGUN TO PERFORM BRAIN SURGERIES, OR THAT THE MAYA HAD DEVELOPED THE CONCEPT OF ZERO OR THE MEXICA (AZTEC AS YOU KNOW THEM) HAD NOT ESTABLISHED TRADE ROUTES WITH OUR NORTHERN NATIONS.
YES, LETS JUST PRETEND THAT THE CAUCASOID WHERE A PERFECT PEOPLE AND NEVER WARRED AND FOR THAT MATTER NEVER CRUCIFIED THE SON OF THEIR OWN GOD. LET'S JUST FORGET THE REAL FACTS AND LIVE IN A FANTASY WORLD WERE THE HOME YOU LIVE IN WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HANDS OF MY PEOPLE. THAT AN OVERWORKED BROTHER OF MINE DID NOT PICK FOOD YOU AND YOUR FAMILY ENJOY, OR WHERE THE NANNY THAT WIPES YOUR KIDS DOWN ISN'T ONE OF MINE. YOU HOLD SO MUCH HATE AND CONTEMPT FOR MY PEOPLE (AND I MEAN EVERYONE INDIGENOUS FROM TIERRA DEL FUEGO TO THE BERING SEA) THEN TOMORROW WHEN YOU WAKE UP GO INTO THE OUT SKIRTS OF YOUR CITY [ WHICH EITHER WAY IS MY PEOPLES HOMELAND BUT WE WILL OVER LOOK THAT ONE] PLANT YOUR OWN FOOD, RAISE YOUR OWN CATTLE OR GAME, MAKE YOUR OWN CLOTHS, BUILD YOUR OWN HOME, [WITHOUT ANY DAY LABORERS KEEP THIS IN MIND AND WITHOUT BUYING BRICKS OR CONCRETE THAT IS IMPORTED FROM MEXICO], AND THEN COME BACK AND YOU CAN COMPLAIN ABOUT THE DISSERVICE OR ATROCITIES THAT MY PEOPLE COMMIT, UNTIL THEN ENJOY THE FRUIT OF OUR HARD LABOR, IT COMES AT A REASONABLE PRICE JUST ASK WAL-MART.

I grow my own strawberries. I can grow any vegetable I want to. I wipe my own babies' butts. ILLEGAL immigrants are astoundingly deluded that because Americans CHOOSE to pay for these services, that they wouldn't or couldn't do them theirselves.

You ungrateful rascist lib. Admittedly you were born here and take our freedoms for granted. Did you PAY for your schooling? Or did I and the rest of the American TAXPAYERS do it? Were you even a TAXPAYER yourself while you indulged yourself like a fatted calf on the Fairy Tales From South Of The Border that they teach in colleges today? Did you know that America is the only country in the world that makes you a citizen just because you were born here?

As to your "gringo" reference....what hipocracy! I am BEYOND sick and tired of the double standard, made worse by its promulgation by the media, that allows for people of color to be prideful of themselves and their cultures, and to fling names like “gringo” at people of European ancestry and Caucasian blood, yet criticizes and demoralizes white Americans (or more accurately, people without color) for their pride in their OWN heritage. How dare people of color generalize, stigmatize, categorize and stereotype ALL persons without pigmentation darker than coffee cream as “white people”, with the implication that all “white” people are the same, and are somehow responsible for the ills of other races. What utter bullcrap!

Most “white” people alive in the U.S. today are not descended from the settlers and explorers who successfully claimed or purchased U.S. territories – most of us are descended from LEGAL immigrants from other countries, who ASSIMILATED into American culture, giving thanks to God that they were blessed to have the opportunity to do so, to BECOME American. Those peoples blended into the fabric of our great country, and most fought for and won civil rights for others.

It is no wonder that there exists such dissention and disdain among people of different cultures when there is such blatant ignorance of history and disregard for the facts.

For instance, did you know, Oh Educated One, that “The word "slave" itself is derived from the word "slav," a reference to the Eastern European White people who, among others, were enslaved by their fellow Whites, by the Mongols, and by the Arabs over a period of many centuries.” (excerpt from They Were White And They Were Slaves by Michael Hoffman).

Do not believe that persons of color are the only people who have ever been oppressed, mistreated, disrespected, enslaved and slaughtered! You make no mention in your "diatribe" of the contributions of the Romans and other Anglo-Saxon achievements - is that because you ASSUME it to be common knowledge? Think again. Maybe you don't know anything about it at all, being that schools today are so intent on denying the accomplishments of any race lacking any significant color of the skin - now doesn't that seem discriminatory?

Jews, Italians, Irish, English, French, Roman, Greek - and every other possible race, culture and creed that lack significant skin color – have all suffered at the hands of war and slavery at some time in history.

If it weren’t so disgusting, it would be downright funny how the loud and mouthy “civil rights” activists are usually much more guilty of the behaviors they decry than the persons they accuse.

We are AMERICANS. We have our OWN culture. Anyone who does not want to EMBRACE that culture needs to go elsewhere. I don't walk around in a kilt just because I have a little Scotts-Irish in me. I also don't walk around with warpaint and a feather headress just because I have a little Cherokee indian in me. If I strongly wish to practice preservation of my ancestry, I WILL NOT FORCE IT ON OTHERS! Neither should Americans be forced into continuing the charade that we must learn about other cultures to accept and respect them. Again, what utter bullcrap! I don't need to know a thing about Asian culture (for example) to have respect for it. I also don't need to embrace it, because if that is what I wanted, I WOULD GO TO ASIA! Or Spain. Or Italy. Or Mexico. Get it?

Sign me,

PROUD TO BE one pissed off American woman lacking any significant pigmentation of the skin, whose ancestors trace back to the early settlers, LEGAL Irish and Scotts immigrants, and the Cherokee Indians on my mother’s side (my grandfather’s mother was full-blooded Cherokee), and LEGAL French and German immigrants on my father’s side, and not a slavemaster in the bunch!

Mexican invaders need American engine to survive
since they are breeding like a rabbit.
Mexican people are high-rate breeding race.
They have to many child. They come to american
and they get fat. I mean fucking fat. The survey
said more Mexican in AMerica are fatter than white
or black. These Mexicans can't survive with American
superior economic. The Mexican gov't has a
enough resource to feed and educate all Mexican
but they won't because of the oligarchy are controlling system gov't and corporation. In order
to stop coming to America, Mexican people have
to fight against their #1 enemy the Mexican oligarchy.
They have to fight for the people right else their
history is over or they need to steal American land
just to survive. But don't think Mexican will take
over AMerica. If Mexican do that, their America
land will be turn like a Mexico, and their money
will be use like Mexican peso. It's pathetic how
weak and uneducated Mexican race is.

I, The Great King Carl , Do hereby make Azillyway my minister of lies and bullshit as he seems to be full of both. The Great King Carl ahs spoken.

I would like to applaud the pissed off "white person" who wrote back to the idiot "lib" :)

For the record, dude, I am a Latina/Mexican-American/brownie...

Let me tell you that it SHAMES me that MY people (because they are my people too) spit out that verbal vomit that they have been fed by their liberal, mis-informed, unappreciative friends or relatives.

Puh-leese...if they are so against "the man" then they would just go elsewhere...I have heard these libs say they want to do away with Capitalism...yeah, I will believe it when they stop driving their cars and stop using their computers and go live on some land and become self-reliant..beucase until then, they are obviously participating in this great capitalistic economy--unless they are working for free and giving their paycheck away???

Oh, and if the prior poster--who obviously didnt benefit from expository comp--replies to your post...I will be shocked...from what I have seen, "these radicals" rarely, if ever come back to back up their stuff...usually they do drive bys...they are too cowardly to come back and hold an intelligent debate...I have seen it before on message boards and I have even seen it on t.v.-- they only want to spew their verbal garbage and move on before you can actually expose their inconsistancies...what a disgrace...to themselves and to our "gente" (people) as a whole...

because all they were interested in was missing school! Jeez, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out!