Revolution #042, April 9, 2006, posted at revcom.us
A tide of immigrant resistance has been sweeping across the
U.S.(with more than 300,000 bringing downtown Chicago to a standstill,
as many as a million marching in Los Angeles, and tens of thousands
protesting in cities such as Milwaukee, Phoenix, Atlanta, and others An
inspiring part of this struggle has been the walkouts of tens of
thousands of high school students – from L.A. and around California, to
Arizona, Texas, Nevada, Georgia, New York, and Virginia, where Black
and Latino students walked out side by side. In some cases the students
have been met with arrests and heavy repression. Below is a report on
the walkouts in Los Angeles. [read more]