Comments on: No work, no school, no buying, no selling

By: Luis Moreno

Luis Moreno — Wed, 03 May 2006 00:13:47 +0000

Photos of May Day in Oxnard, Ca…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sinfronteras/tags/mayday/

By: Joseph

Joseph — Tue, 02 May 2006 18:22:52 +0000

Thanks for the pix! Excellent idea for the posterboard

By: tin

tin — Tue, 02 May 2006 17:10:16 +0000

simon que yes, gracias for the images. i also have some on the SF protest. I hope something goods come out of this.

By: irasali

irasali — Tue, 02 May 2006 17:05:16 +0000

que padre. i was also at home keeping an eye on all developments through cnn and the other local news channels. i have not looked through your pics but i can’t wait.

By: fabian

fabian — Tue, 02 May 2006 15:57:26 +0000

great pics Cindy…FYI Maribel did not go teach, she was at the marcha and the Dean did not accomodate those that wanted to go to the march. HIs rationale:go to the afternoon march after the morning finals. There goes any kind of understanding on what it means to have an all day boycott.

By: Joel (DCNats)

Joel (DCNats) — Tue, 02 May 2006 15:33:07 +0000

great sign Cindy… I hope you were able to figure out a way down to the protest without spending, or at least without spending too much.

By: Freebird

Freebird — Tue, 02 May 2006 14:04:31 +0000

Love the sign! Wandered over here from Regina’s “Chicana on the Edge” blog.

By: César

César — Tue, 02 May 2006 13:17:26 +0000

I got my timing all messed up and arrived at Cantu Pan-American parke in East Austin way too early. I had to go before anyone got there. So, I didn’t take many fotos. Pero, I’m glad a dear Austinite, Jenn, took lots of photos.

By: cad

cad — Tue, 02 May 2006 13:13:43 +0000

I love your pictures girl. I was at home watching CNN looking at the “rivers of people” in L.A. I couldn’t help but think to myself, “I know some people that are out there!”

Thank you for representing!

Great pictures!

By: Diego

Diego — Tue, 02 May 2006 10:36:59 +0000

Hola CindyLu.

Una fotografia tan linda y fuerte en su mensaje! Es maravillosa de atestigar a una demostracion de tanta solidaridad de nuestra gente!

I am a 6th generation Chicano-American citizen. Before all the Anglo bigots came out of the woodwork recently, I never gave much thought to my heritage. But maybe the racists have done me a favor. I feel Latino now, I feel a kinship with all my Latino cousins that I’ve never felt before.

Tengo orgullo en mi cultura, en hablar espanol, en las tradiciones de mi gente.

I have heard that the demonstrations have been strongest in California, New Mexico, Florida, south Texas, Chicago and New York. The haters in many of the Red States in the South, Midwest and Mountain States haven’t been able to stop it. I

En mi opinion, los Latinos que viven en estados “rojos” deberian considerar mudar a California, Arizona o Nueva Mexico. Aqui, nadie va a llamar a Ud. un “traidor,” nadie va a acusar que no este un norteamericano, nadie va criticar a Ud. para hablar espanol y celebrar su herencia!

California is a wonderful place for us, where we have both ethnic solidarity and non-Latinos sympathetic to our plight. Arizona and New Mexico, south Florida and San Antonio are also great places. Latinos stuck in states like Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, the Dakotas, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Maine, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana should really consider moving out to Cali, New Mexico or Arizona, to San Antonio or south Florida. In combination with other sympathetic states (such as New Jersey and Maryland), if we achieve such demographic and economic solidarity, we have the capacity to hold off the bigots and block them from power.

Aqui es la hora para triunfar para nuestra gente! Debemos unir y luchar juntos para nuestra causa y nuestra gente, somos unidos!