More than 2000 spirited protestors took to the streets of San Francisco yesterday to demand action on comprehensive immigration reform. The group assembled at Justin Herman Plaza on the waterfront and marched to the very foot of Senator Diane Feinstein’s barricaded downtown office building. The rally, emceed by Ana Perez of CARECEN SF and Terry Valen of the Filipino Community Center, blew the roof off the City and showed that the March for America was not a culmination but a beginning of a new, more targeted and aggressive phase of the immigrant rights movements.
The crowd demanded that Senators Feinstein and Boxer make a deadline of legislative action in the Senate by no later than April 31st, 2010. Ali Noorani of the National Immigration Forum, Angelica Salas of CHIRLA and others gave impassioned speeches that brought the spirit of the March for America to the streets of San Francisco.
The march culminated a week of protests, press conferences, marches and rallies in Northern California, including 5,000 people in Santa Rosa, 3,000 in San Jose, 1,000 in Modesto , 10,000 in Salinas , 500 in Oakland and 1,000 in Fresno. These marches, organized by the United Farm Workers, SIREN, the PICO network and many others in partnership with the Reform Immigration for America Campaign show that California está presente in the movement!
You can catch some of the local news coverage here, here and here.
Categories: Action, California, Civil Disobedience, comprehensive immigration reform
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