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Photos from and of Ukraine
By: Stefan Iwaskewycz
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| Thursday, 13-Apr-2006 23:52 |
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Immigration Rights Rally, Sun., April 9, 2006, in St. Paul, MN
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Reports say there were 40-50,000 at this rally in St. Paul, the capital of Minnesota which is the Twin City of Minneapolis (Minneapolis and St Paul are like Dallas/Ft. Worth).
Immigrants are revitalizing America.
Samuel Huntington et al are simply wrong.
Immigrants (legal or illegal) have revitalized many an inner city neighborhood in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Hmong, Somalian, and Latino efforts have, so far, spared some of these areas from the yuppie-gentrification version of urban renewal.
Immigrants, especially from Latin America, have brought with them not only traditions of community but also of community organizing. This rally was a sign of their strength, integrity, and organizing prowess. In St. Paul, in the neighborhood that has become known as Area del Sol, the main drag has been renamed Cesar Chavez St. This is the kind of revitalization that folks like the eminent Harvard Prof. Huntington do not like. (I am picking on Huntington because he has written that immigrants these days bring with them the corruption and authoritarianism of their home countries to these shores and thus are ruining the social fabric of the US.)
This was also Palm Sunday, a day signaling rebirth for many and it was nice to see a lot of people carrying palms with them at the rally. Awaiting a new Jesus?
What will Pharisees in Washington do vis-a-vis this growing movement for social justice?
These are the largest civil rights demonstrations the US has seen since the 1960s. Very inspiring.
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