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...today, causing local retail spending to take a major hit. Illinois has an estimated 285,000 undocumented workers, nearly the same number of protest participants that Chicago-area organizers are projecting for today. At the city?s March 10 immigrant rally, about 100,000 were estimated to have demonstrated downtown in a far more hastily planned grassroots effort...
...Angeles today, the dividing line between the major factions in the immigration reform movement came into stark relief. The militant Great American Boycott organizers held a noon rally downtown for students and immigrant workers and their supporters who stayed away from school, work, restaurants and stores to dramatize the economic clout of immigrants. Their protest rally attracted large numbers, with many downtown small businesses shut down and major streets closed near city hall and the one-mile march route. Posters promoting the noon rally featured a stop sign printed with the words: "NO work; NO school; NO shopping; NO selling...
...Edward Headington, spokesman for one of the Boycott organizers, the Mexican American Political Association (MAPA), described the scene for TIME.com from his position in the middle of the march that clogged streets downtown near City Hall: "It's hard to tell how many people are here and we haven't gotten any estimates yet from the police. There haven't been any incidents. It's very peaceful, but very loud. There are a lot of people wearing white shirts in the crowd and more American flags are being waved than any other. But there are flags from other countries...
...Taking a more moderate stand on the "Day Without Immigrants" is Angela Sanbrano, executive director of Carecen, or Central American Resource Center, a Los Angeles Latino immigrant community services organization. Sanbrano was one of the organizers of the March 25 demonstration that attracted more than 500,000 marchers to downtown L.A., but this time her group and others have distanced themselves from the more militant boycott organizers. They formed the We Are America Coalition, which planned a separate march along Wilshire Blvd. in midtown Los Angeles for 4 p.m. - after school hours and closer to quitting time for most jobholders...
...Employees International Union, both say they received reports this morning that bus ridership in the city is down substantially. "We were told that buses are carrying only 15% of the usual volume of riders," said Sanbrano. She also received reports that at the city's big wholesale produce market downtown, the L.A. Terminal, sales activity was light, with many out-of-state truckers arriving to find no one to unload their cargo and few buyers. The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service later reported that sales were down between 75% and 95% compared to a normal Monday...