May 1st boycott is run by hispanics?
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Well they are certainly the vast majority. The other nationalities, come in via different ways. From getting a student visa, and not returning home for example.\nWe will see what their boycott does, especially if most American Citizens, spend their money that day as well.
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The boycott was organized so that people who claim that we do not contribute to the economy can be proven wrong. Also, to understand the immigration debate you must do some research. Find out why people are risking their lives to come to a land where they will be exploited. Think about what it would take for you to do the same thing, and realize that whatever your answer is, that is what they are going through. Research NAFTA, CAFTA, and FTAA, and you will find out why people are coming to this country. And when people start a revolution to change their situation at home, what happens? Research Salvador Allende, his ouster, and the Pinochet Regime. The complaints that some Americans have, i.e. foreigners coming into our country..., well we have been complaining about these things for decades. I guess you can blame this immigration problem on karma.\n\nAnswer for RAM- Good point, but what if your cousin had to move into your house because your burnt his house down, or you got him kicked out of his house. Most immigrants are here because of the U.S. foreign policies that they have signed with corrupt governments.
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I'm white and American and I support immigration, illegal or legal.  Everyone should have a chance to experience, freedom and democracy, even if our current government takes such things away minute by minute. People come here illegally so that they may have a new chance at life and usually willing to work to acheive it. Hispanic Immigrants are always hard workers and work for less than minimum wage.  If you want to clean up America, why don't you find all of the whites and blacks who are too lazy to get up off of their asses to do an honest day's work and just sponge on welfare.  As to the t-shirt question, Cafe Press has the ability to make your own. Fidelche has some good political shirts too. The second link in my sources has some "Smash Racism" t-shirts.
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I have several hispanic friends that agree with me when I say...\nI think May 1 is a great opportunity for the citizens of the United States that need jobs to go and apply \nWhy should we give immigrants that are here ILLEGALLY so many privileges. \nWould Mexico give me those special privileges? Absolutely not. \nIt makes me angry that they call this movement "The Great American Boycott". You are not AMERICAN if you are not a citizen! Call it the damn "Mexican Boycott"!!!\nI have a great idea! Let's have America boycott illegal immigrants for one day! No jobs, medical care, etc. I bet it would hurt them a whole lot more than it would hurt us. \nDon't wave your Mexican flags and then ask to be Americans! If you want to be an American then you better show it and waving your countries flag is NOT the way to do it! If you are so proud of your country and where you came from...STAY THERE!!!
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not sure...but if its really happening, its bullshyt and will cause a huge backlash toward the ILLEGAL hispanic community......damned beaners
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yeah i know...hispanics are going through a hard time right with the american goverment and some of the people.is it racism? i don't know because i'm not american.i could never thrash a another person race or religon.
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I agree with you but looking back at the answers you have recieved I cant believe that people dont think that the minuite men are not racist. Hello they are targeting a single group of people. You may say no to that, they are against illegal immigration, but then why arent they building walls or taking stands in other areas that we see as a place for immigrants to enter this country? It is targeted at the Mexican border, so yes they are racist. About La Raza, I cant say for sure what you are talking about so I cant agree with you on that. Can you please tell us what group they are and what they are doing??
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JD, the left-wing activist are working very hard to make it a racial slur.  I don't know where you live, but here in Dallas, I listen to KLIF radio.  Gregg Knapp had Domingo Garcia, who is activist in the boycott and is currently representing an illegal immigrant who was arrasted by the cops.  You HAVE to listen to this podcast to see the flagrant attempt by Garcia to equate illegal alien to the N-word.  It is incredible.  I promise it is not spam or a virus:  Dallas Lawyer Domingo Garcia \nhttp://www.amfmpodcast.com/PodCast/KLIF/KLIF188/knapp-domingogarciapodcast.mp3
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Gettin FIRED From Work...\nYeah... Sounds GRATEful\nGO FOR IT\n\nI SUPPORT BOYCOTT MAY 1st\n\nALL 15 Million Illegals Go To Boycott\nAll 300 Million Citizens Go About Our Business As Usual\n \nThere Is No Point \nBut YEAH Go Ahead And Boycott All You Want
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HERES The Racism-\nALL The RACISM You Want\n\n\nMexico's President Fox has been unrelenting in his brazen demands on the United States, starting with open borders even before he was elected. He has called for the border to be “a joining line.” His visits to the U.S. have been filled with endless requirements for Mexican citizens illegally in this country — free healthcare, taxpayer-subsidized in-state tuition for illegals at state colleges and universities, guestworker programs and amnesty for all. \n\n                                                             **************************\n\nMexican American Legal Defense Fund founder Mario Obledo stated, “California is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who doesn't like it should leave. Every constitutional office in California is going to be held by Hispanics in the next 20 years.  People who don't like such demographic changes “should go back to Europe.” (Incidentally,  Senor  Obledo was also the California Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Gov. Jerry Brown.) \n\n\nObledo Is A Member Of "MEChA" And "LA RAZA"\n\n                                                 ********************\n\nThe newly "ELECTED"mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, joined the lawbreakers and proclaimed "this bill in Congress is wrong". Señor Villaraigosa said "The only thing illegal is making 11 million illegal aliens felons." Yeah, he Actually said that. People should make no mistake about it: Villaraigosa was "ELECTED" by ILLEGALs VOTING, and HIS Allegiance, along with the rest of these "ELECTED" public officials in California of Mexican ancestry is to Mexico, not California or these United States of America. Villaraigosa has spent a lifetime opposing U.S. immigration laws.\n\nVillaraigosa is A Member Of  "MEChA"  and  " LA RAZA"\n\n                                               *********************\n\nMEChA and the La Raza movement teach that Colorado, California, Arizona, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Oregon and parts of Washington State make up an area known as "AZTLAN" -- a fictional ancestral homeland of the Aztecs before Europeans arrived in North America. As such, it belongs to the followers of MEChA. These are all areas America should surrender to "La Raza" once enough immigrants, legal or illegal, enter to claim a majority, as in Los Angeles. The current borders of the United States will  be extinguished.\n\n The Council of La Raza succeeded in having itself added to congressional hearings by Republican House and Senate leaders. And an anonymous senator even gave the Council of La Raza an extra $4 million in earmarked taxpayer money, supposedly for "housing reform," while La Raza continues to lobby the Senate for virtual open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens. \n\nhttp://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=13863\n\n"We have an aging white America ... They are dying ...We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him." Jose Angel Gutierrez, professor, University of Texas, Arlington and founder of the La Raza Unida political party \n\nProfessor Jose Angel Gutierrez, University of Texas; "We have an aging white America.  They are not making babies.  They are dying.  The explosion is in our population . . . I love it.  They are shitting in their pants with fear.  I love it." \n\n                      *********************\n\nArt Torres, California Democratic Party chairman, at the Latino Summit \nResponse to Prop 187 at U.C. Riverside (Jan. 14, 1995): "Power is not given to you, you have to take it! People say to me when I was on the Senate floor, when I was in the Senate, why do you fight so hard for affirmative action programs. And I tell my white colleagues: because you're gonna need them. Remember, 187 is the last gasp of white Americ
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Too bad those of us here legally don't get together and boycott and see how that affects things.  What was the important effect - people off work, kids staying out of school away from their free education.  They should be in Mexico parading and boycotting for their own Country to change for the better.
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I saw a sign on the way in this morning that said:\n"Illegals want the same rights as citizens"  That is want they think they are going to get.  By the way, I saw at least 50 day laborers in front of our local Home Depot.\nMaybe they think a boycott is something a young male child sleeps on.
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there are illegal immigrants,legal immigrants and hispanics that were born here protesting. so you can't assume that the protesters are illegal.
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Just another case of deaths that might not have been except for the illegal who caused it.  Remove illegals, reduce American deaths...have you seen this, my friend?\n\nhttp://www.house.gov/apps/list/hearing/ia05_king/col_20060505_bite.html\n\nOn May 1st, the activists who brought you thousands of Mexican flags flying in marches down the streets of our cities are now bringing you “Nothing Gringo Day”. With help from the Mexican government, Mexican unions, Mexican political groups, and through the Spanish language radio and newspapers, the call has gone out to make America experience a total boycott, both here and in Mexico. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.\n\nJust the word “boycott” sparks the image of noble dissent in the face of economic or social oppression. I think of American colonials bucking British economic interests in retaliation to the Stamp Act. Or perhaps the ostracizing of Irish landlord Charles Boycott, the namesake of the verb for all tyrannized people. If not tyrannized, at least disgruntled. If not disgruntled, maybe just bored.\n\nYet, isn’t the key to a successful boycott an economic or social upper-hand? The cost must be felt if the offending party be forced to reform. For example, how does boycotting a movie you had no intention of going to affect the box office? More people probably see a boycotted movie due to the attention than if it had simply been ignored.\n\nPresident Carter thought he was on to something when he kept American athletes out of the 1980 Moscow Olympics. That showed ‘em. That particular boycott neither got the USSR out of Afghanistan nor brought down the Berlin Wall. It just caused our own athletes to suffer.\n\nThe May 1st anti-Gringo-fest is also being billed as “A Day Without Immigrants” which is a misnomer on a couple of counts. First, the threatened boycott fails to conjure the image of a Norwegian refusing to buy his May 1 lutefisk at the corner Fareway. Second, the pro-amnesty groups are insistent on confusing legal and illegal immigration. Let’s not start mixing our apples and oranges. The issue before Congress is illegal immigration. Perhaps the May 1st boycott should give America a glimpse into “A Day Without ILLEGAL Immigration.”\n\nWhat would that May 1st look like without illegal immigration? There would be no one to smuggle across our southern border the heroin, marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamines that plague the United States, reducing the U.S. supply of meth that day by 80%. The lives of 12 U.S. citizens would be saved who otherwise die a violent death at the hands of murderous illegal aliens each day. Another 13 Americans would survive who are otherwise killed each day by uninsured drunk driving illegals. Our hospital emergency rooms would not be flooded with everything from gunshot wounds, to anchor babies, to imported diseases to hangnails, giving American citizens the day off from standing in line behind illegals. Eight American children would not suffer the horror as a victim of a sex crime.\n\nOn the negative side, the price of a pound of tomatoes might go up from $0.79 to $0.80. That is unless you have a garden. But I’m guessing that the Mexican drug lords are not taking May 1st off. Neither will the 11,000 illegal invaders that pour over our border every other day of the year. It is a safe bet that the U.S. Border Patrol will have a very busy “Nothing Gringo Day.”\n\nSince September 11th, it remains true that OBL is the greatest threat to America. I will leave it to the reader to decide if the greatest threat is Osama bin Laden or the Open Borders Lobby. The emerging cheap labor “ruling class” in America is the strongest supporter of amnesty for illegals. Their anti-American “new servant class” has chosen to boycott them; the very definition of irony. On May 1st, Primero de Mayo, Americans will observe, as illegal immigrants celebrate, “Bite the Hand That Feeds You Day.”
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It is too bad that there are so many of you ignorant people out there answering these questions about the boycott today.  There are immigrants that do things the right way and others that don't, just like anybody else.  You can blame mexicans, italians, germans, etc. for whatever you want but there are many of white people that are doing wrong things just like anyone else is.  Something I heard a lady say this morning on the radio was that the immigrants are taking all the jobs with the benefits.  Instead of complaining why isn't her voice heard in positive ways instead of just talking sh!t...\n\n*To those of you who have previously answered this question, why do you complain about immigrants not knowing english when you yourselves don't even know how to spell correctly?  If you are going to talk sh!t then I suggest you atleast take a minute to spell check and read back your answer to yourself!
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http://alipac.us/article1148.html \n\nSome Latino Protesters Support 'Reconquista' Of The Southwest USA! \nPosted on Tuesday, April 11 @ 07:56:47 CDT \nTopic: Illegal Immigrant Gangs Terrorists\n  \nThe true colors of many Latinos have been on display in the past week of protests, and they weren't just red, white and blue.  \nThey were also red, white and green (Mexico), yellow, blue and red (Ecuador), red, yellow and green (Bolivia), blue and white (El Salvador, Guatemala) and red, white, blue and black (Anahuac).\n\nThe Mexica movement claims Olmec ancestry and aims to take back the continent from "racist thieving" Europeans on behalf of the "Nican Tlaca," or indigenous people. \n\nCloser to the mainstream is the Aztlan movement, which claims Aztec and Spanish ancestry and wants only the western half of the U.S. for "La Raza de Bronze." \n\nA leading Aztlan group is the Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan, known by its Spanish acronym MEChA. \n\nLike many other Hispanic groups, MEChA came out of the "Brown Power" movement of the late '60s. Its founding motto was, "For those in the race, everything. For those outside the race, nothing." \n\nMany of California's leading Hispanic politicians were "Mechistas" in college, including Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and former Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante. \n\nBustamante's refusal to condemn MEChA contributed to his defeat by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 2003 gubernatorial race. \n\nAs a student group, MEChA tends to be dominated by immigrants' children and descendants, not immigrants themselves. \n\nBut the views of most Mexicans aren't far away from MEChA's. \n\nThe major players in the Hispanic lobby deny any racist motives.\n\nA leading Aztlan group is the Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan, known by its Spanish acronym MEChA. \n\nLike many other Hispanic groups,MEChA came out of the "Brown Power" movement of the late '60s. Its founding motto was, \n"For those in the race, everything. For those outside the race, nothing." \n\nCloser to the mainstream is the Aztlan movement, \nwhich claims Aztec and Spanish ancestry and wants only the western half of the U.S. for      "LA RAZA  de Bronze." \n\n\nMEChA and the La Raza movement teach that Colorado, California, Arizona, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Oregon and parts of Washington State make up an area known as "AZTLAN" -- \na fictional ancestral homeland of the Aztecs before Europeans arrived in North America. \nAs such, it belongs to the followers of MEChA. \nThese are all areas America should surrender to "La Raza" once enough immigrants, legal or illegal, enter to claim a majority, as in Los Angeles. \nThe current borders of the United States will  be extinguished.\n\nOther Members Of These Groups Include: \n\n-- Angel Gutierrez, \nProfessor, University of Texas, Arlington- \nFounder of the La Raza Unida political party - \n"We have an aging white America.  They are not making babies.  They are dying.  The explosion is in our population . . .They are shitting in their pants with fear...I love it. We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is, if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him."  \n\n-- Fernando Guerra, \nProfessor, Loyola Marymount University - \n"We need to avoid a white backlash by using codes understood by Latinos . . . "\n\n-- Jose Pescador Osuna \nMexican Consul General - \n"We are practicing 'La Reconquista' in California." \n\nTaken From "Excelsior", The national newspaper of Mexico, \n"The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot."\n\n-- Cruz Bustamante \nFormer Lt. Governor, California \nBustamante's refusal to condemn MEChA contributed to his defeat by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 2003 gubernatorial race. \n\n
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It's not just "browns" (Mexicans) it's Asians and Europeans too. I was walking home from school today and there's this little plaza with Mexican-owned stores. All closed. The Korean-owned liquor store? Closed. The Armenian-owned Laundromat? Closed as well. If I could have, I would have protested too, but I had school to worry about.\n\n(Just in case you wanna know, I live in L.A.)