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...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...
...with marchers shouting in the background when he spoke to TIME.com. He said his group had to leave the main protest route along Broadway because, he said enthusiastically, "there were so many people, we couldn't move!" He dismissed worries that the boycotts would provoke a backlash against immigration reform. "We've been living with the backlash for years," he said. "But now people are losing their fear of organizing and exercising their constitutional rights so that the voice of the immigrants are being heard. We hope that Americans will appreciate the role of immigrants in the economy by observing...
...buying power and they work they do at hotels, restaurants, shops and homes, and that they have earned the right to be respected. By the end of the day we would like to see that Congress gets the message that it is critical that they come up with immigration reform that allows these people to stay in the United States and work with dignity...
...some members of the We Are America coalition were disheartened to hear that Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa would be traveling to Dallas for NFL meetings, rather than participating in their afternoon march. Villaraigosa told TIME.com in March that he preferred to lobby for the McCain-Kennedy Senate bill on immigration reform rather than backing a May 1 protest that encouraged kids to miss school or adults to skip work. This weekend, he again urged youngsters to delay demonstrations until after school and asked those who chose to demonstrate to remain peaceful and to carry American flags. In the morning, Villaraigosa told...
...presidential elections, National Front dinosaur Le Pen, is part of Sarkozy's calculations. Le Pen's personal popularity has shot up to 14% in recent months, thanks, apparently, to the riots in the banlieues last fall and the government's capitulation to the protests over labor-market reform last month. Villiers, whose Movement for France presents a somewhat less incendiary alternative to Le Pen, landed a media coup last month with his claim that Muslim radicals had systematically infiltrated the ground crew and support staff of Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport. Official sources within France's police intelligence agency have...