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Addressing a meeting of members from over
\n 20 student groups, leaders of Harvard’s Fuerza Latina and Student Labor
\n Action Movement (SLAM) called for a campus-wide walkout on May 1 to protest
\n federal legislation they say is anti-immigration.<\/p>\n
After receiving a smaller-than-expected
\n student turnout for a national April 10 rally against the legislation,
\n Cristina A. Herndon
\n ’06, former vice president of Fuerza Latina, and SLAM leader Michael
\n A. Gould-Wartofsky ’07 turned to intergroup collaboration in order
\n to most efficiently galvanize support. <\/p>\n
The groups’ plan calls for protestors to walk out at 1 p.m. on May Day,
\n May 1, and stage a protest in Harvard Square before moving to a city-wide
\n protest being held in downtown Boston. <\/p>\n
from the Harvard Crimson<\/a><\/p>\n We were also disappointed at the April One of the most endearing and entertaining tenets of Empires since at least the Romans have At the same time, we are not all that If it is to demonstrate how dependent we We do like the whole wear white thing, Watch this space for a report on tomorrows Addressing a meeting of members from over 20 student groups, leaders of Harvard’s Fuerza Latina and Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) called for a campus-wide walkout on May 1 to protest federal legislation they say is anti-immigration. After receiving a … Continue reading
\n 10 turnout in Boston, compared to marches in other cities, but we’re
\n ready to give
\n these guys another chance. We believe in an innate right to immigrate
\n – and to emigrate. God gave us free will, but men give us governments,
\n and often they are weak and venal men who try to appear strong and nobel, and their governments suck accordingly, and constitute a danger to the life and liberty of the people who happened to be born therein.<\/p>\n
\n Democracy is that if you disagree with the government, you can try to
\n change it. However, some people are not into or cut out for regime change,
\n and a corollary right in any free society is the freedom to leave, and
\n for others to come.<\/p>\n
\n discovered that only through a constant infusion of new blood, ambitious
\n immigrant blood,
\n can an empire maintain its vigor and avoid complacency, sloth and endemic
\n cynical corruption. Quite frankly, the United States can ill afford
\n to cut off the inflow of imagination, daring and determination that
\n only someone who risks everything for a better life can contribute
\n to the society that provides it.<\/p>\n
\n sold on this May Day without Immigrants. The potential downside seems
\n much steeper than any possible benefit. What, after all, is the objective? <\/p>\n
\n are on
\n immigrant
\n labor, they
\n are bound to be sorely disappointed. Even if they were able to
\n generate a high participation rate (extremely doubtful due to the highly
\n publicized immigrant worker roundups around the country these past
\n few weeks), it would be sending the wrong message to the wrong people.
\n If anyplace gets paralyzed or even inconvenienced. it will be the reclaimed
\n Spanish Empire areas in Texas, New Mexico and Southern California,
\n where the
\n immigrants
\n themselves are in the majority. In the other 95% of the country it
\n will be a small peaceful demonstration and 2 minutes on the evening news.
\n If anything, the immigrants will be seen as unruly foreign fifth columnists,
\n destabilizing and endangering, rather than engendering, the American
\n Dream.<\/p>\n
\n though. A political fashion statement which will mean two very different
\n things to the Latinos, for whom white represents purity and perfection,
\n and to the Asian immigrants, to whom white usually represents death
\n and mourning. And the inevitable Anarchist lunatic fringe will definitely
\n stand out, like ebony apostrophes peppered into linguistic alfredo.<\/p>\n
\n events.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"