Text of speech given by Travis Morales at the March 25 protest in Los Angeles (transcription by Revolution newspaper, revcom.us)
I am a member of the World Can’t Wait, Drive Out the Bush Regime.
President Bush, listen to us. Listen to us, President Bush. Here we
are! Here we will stay! Here we will fight!
We have not come here to beg or ask for crumbs. We have come to
demand and take what we need to live with equality and dignity and not
live like slaves or animals.
There is no savior in Congress. There is no savior in the Democratic
Party. The only savior we have is ourselves fighting in the streets.
Don’t tell me. Don’t tell me that immigrants are criminals because
they cross the border to work and survive while the biggest criminals
in the world are in the White House. The Bush regime tortures and
defends it. It launches unjust and illegitimate wars based on lies. It
militarizes the border, causing the death of thousands. It builds
concentration camps for immigrants. It arrests immigrants, detains them
without the right to see their lawyers or family, and secretly deports
them. The attack on immigrants is a cornerstone of a fascist program.
If we want to defeat it, we must organize a movement of millions in the
streets to stop it.
No militarization of the border. No discrimination. No criminalization. No anti-immigrant laws.
We are right. The World Can’t Wait, Drive Out the Bush Regime!