Illegals to Protest in Richmond VA Sunday 04-09-06

Not to be outdone by their counterparts on the left coast, Richmond Moonbats (tinfoil hat required if you click on the link) will be staging a protest Sunday, April 9th, 2006, 2:30pm, Monroe Park.


From the flyer:

We are calling on all immigrants and friends to stop Congress from criminalizing 11 million immigrants, women, men and children.
We will not permit Congress to make criminals of the teachers, doctors, social workers, and clergy that provide help to undocumented immigrants.

A quick look at the sponsors:
1. Mexicans Without Borders. This group sends up some Red flags for sure.

Macrina Cárdenas is a leader of Mexicanos Sin Fronteras (Mexicans Without Borders), a Washington, D.C.-based immigrant rights group. Her organization has been active in fighting against growing harassment of immigrant workers, at the same time addressing the broader social and political roots of immigration. She serves on the steering committee of the anti-war coalition ANSWER. In this interview with Socialism and Liberation’s Brian Becker, Cárdenas explains her group’s perspective on the growing debate over immigration reform.

2. The Virginia Organizing Project. Contact is C. Woodson who is also on the Board of Directors of Richmond Peace Education Project who lately sponsored the March 19th anti-war, anti-lead paint protest in Richmond.

3. The Defenders for Freedom, Justice and Equality. Another sponsor of the March 19th event.

4. Legal Aid Justice Center Their contact person speaks spanish according to the flyer.

5. La Selecta radio station WVNZ 1320 AM. Owned by the Davidson Media Group.

While the station has a solid advertising base now, Demetrio Flores said, the first six months were hard. Before Selecta was manned during the weekends, Spanish-language programming at another local radio station was yanked off the air suddenly because of a controversial show. That had a negative impact on advertisers, he said, and it took some work to convince them.

"Now we have [everybody] from Wal-Mart to Mi Rinc?n Latino announcing with us," he said.

Lawyers, real estate agencies, an alternative-medicine doctor, churches and even card readers now sponsor half-hour to hour paid programming on the station.

Illegal Immigration commentary:
American Daughter Media Center
Jefferson Mammoth
Save the GOP
Spank Zone
WuzzaDem
Michelle Malkin
From On High and THIS
Tanker Brothers
The Gunn Nutt
Euphoric Reality
Gateway Pundit
The White House
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