More Pics of 4-10-06 San Jose Immigrants Rights March and some demands

It was beautiful to see our people untied to make change. We need the powers of many voices for people to hear us. Make a chnge, participate in the wlaks anf in the political aspects. If are a citizen you have a voice use it, vote, vote for your peoples rights. We are all immigrats to thisa country, this land was once ours. The african American people were brouth here as slaves and no one asked them for their citizenship papers.
Together anything can happen .

Today Bush only want to give imagrent temporary visas.He wants to give imagrents the jobs that no leagle person want only the jobs that benifites him .why not the better jobs for them. I was bor here and i'm oly 15 years old but my perents are from Mexico they're fixing papers but its so hard.We need to show this goverment that they need us. I mean if they are talking about imagrents then they sholw leave to.I say that because in there history they cane here from England and took the land from the native americans.also in the constitutional rights it says that all men are created equaly. so I say give imagrent papers.

from daniel romero
sanjose califoria

I was very impress on how many people attended the march. I was honor to attend something that will go down in History and I pray that we made a big enough statement that the Senate feel the presure on doing something. I only wish that the teens behave a little better. I seen some treating this day like Cinco de Mayo.

I was very impress on how many people attended the march. I was honor to attend something that will go down in History and I pray that we made a big enough statement that the Senate feel the presure on doing something. I only wish that the teens behave a little better. I seen some treating this day like Cinco de Mayo.

" And if going home is denied me, then I will have to stand and claim my space,
making a new culture--una cultura mestiza--with my own lumber,
my own bricks and mortar and my own feminist architecture."
--Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera

Often times Latinos from all over Latin America including Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean are grouped together into a single, common culture with experiences assumed to be the same. However, this is not the case. Some similarities that do exist include: being conquered at one point in history, being oppressed and the effects of U.S intervention throughout history. But the way in which they differentiate and the way in which immigration has shaped such experiences is necessary to understand and take into account in order to comprehend the intricate culture, socio-economical, and political culture in all of the Latin American countries.

The bulk of the marchers are from Mexican-decent. Both Mexicans and Chicanos feel they do not have to assimilate because they have been discriminated upon and have suffered tremendous prejudices in the U.S. In Always Running, by Chicano author Luis Rodriguez, such concepts are illustrated. These include being segregated in schools based on the English language command, skin-color, and resources of society. They have always been invited to the U.S when needed for cheap labor and then banned or forcefully thrown out. Thus, Chicanos have gone through a history of being colonized, discriminated upon in their own lands (through educational institutions their language and culture was devalued), and being told to ‘go home’ when their home is in the Americas ( es su tierra natal), struggling and fighting for respect, dignity and justice.

I,
Of the same name,
Joaquin,
In a country that has wiped out
All my history,
Stifled all my pride,
In a country that has placed a
Different weight of dignity upon my age-old burdened back.
Inferiority is the new load…
The Indian has endured and still
Emerged the winner,
The Mestizo must yet overcome, and the Guchupin will just ignore
I look at myself
And see part of me
Who rejects my father and my mother
And dissolves into the melting pot
To disappear in shame…

Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales