Santa Ana students engaged in a civil disobedience action with the purpose of shutting down all activity in the Santa Ana Federal Detention Center, today.
At 10 am eight students blocked the driveway entrance to the detention center where buses full of detained immigrants enter and exit. Students sat down in the middle of the street and locked their arms using lockboxes so as to not be removed by the police or I.C.E. agents. Soon afterwards a large crowd of 300 supporters began to gather around the protestors declaring, “We are all Arizona!”
The protesters are not releasing their identities or carrying identifications in solidarity with undocumented people who are discriminated against and dehumanized because of discriminatory legislation and policies such as SB1070 in Arizona and Costa Mesa’s “Rule of Law.”
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Great work! We need a smaller government instead of a growing army of ICE agents, jailers, etc. all chasing strawberry pickers while milking the overtime and getting credits for a bloated pension system.
At least these young Senoritas will have this video to look at in 10 years when they are living in the Delhi barrio with 13 kids and wondering what they did wrong.
I suggest you go to your class rooms and learn instead of laying on your backs!
If I wanted too, we could take the whole, “lying on your backs issue” to a whole new level… But now is neither the place or the time!
The street was block off from Flower to Ross, and there must have been more than a hundred police, fire, and other public safety and city employees involved.
I expect the cost to be in the range of tens of thousands of dollars.
Will the arrested protesters have to pay restitution?
Why don’t the protesters put their money together and start paying the costs and fees and charges need to convert non-resident aliens into resident aliens?
Even the most recent immigration reform bill calls for the newly amnestied aliens to pay thousands of dollars to get permanent resident status.
They have the right to protest. If they go over that right they understand the consequences.
City governments are able to protest and waste public money in the process.
Peter Prophet
Posted June 3, 2010 at 9:18 PM
At least these young Senoritas will have this video to look at in 10 years when they are living in the Delhi barrio with 13 kids and wondering what they did wrong.
The prophet believes voicing an opinion will produce kids and poverty? I think your crystal ball might me a little cloudy Peter , our is your real first name not peter but another, same as peter.. D- ck.
Michelle Quinn
Posted June 3, 2010 at 10:48 PM
I suggest you go to your class rooms and learn instead of laying on your backs!
If protesting is good enough for the Tea Baggers then it is good enough for them. Or is this another law in process against Mexicans.
doctor one thing you left out of your one sided view . tea party people dont get arrested for blocking the streets and causing traffic jams . they do it orderly AND FOLLOW THE LAW . wich this group of wet behing the ears kids have a tough time understanding . i guess not following the law runs in the family .
Grate one,
The original Boston Tea Party involved breaking and entering, theft and destruction of private property.
Today the patriots who committed that litany of crimes are hailed as American heroes.
And in the 1960’s, African Americans engaged in unlawful sit-ins, but today they are hailed as American heroes.
The young people who protested in Santa Ana yesterday are heroes too. They too are acting out against unjust laws.
oh a un just law no a real law or let me say a rule of law something these law breakers dont understand and your going to go back to the days of washington . your going to compare these people with the tea party of back then . you are off your rocker . oh i love their little demands . stop the raids , refuse to work with ice . and one guy saying these people are scared to go out . IF YOU ARE LEGAL IN THIS COUNTRY THAN YOU HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR . you know who gets scared CRIMINALS .
The text under the photo calls these protestors Santa Ana students. Does anyone know if they really are all school-attending students, and if so if the faculty of the school(s) was involved in organizing this event?
While Art’s and Zorro’s praise for these lawbreakers is hardly a shock (heroes Art, way to ramp up the hyperbole, particularly on the heels of a Memorial Day celebration for REAL heroes), the geniuses are not even subject to the Arizona law. So, they now have a criminal record, which many are compounding by refusing to identify themselves or be fingerprinted when they could have made the same lame statement on a sidewalk or city park, and avoided the arrest. I can’t wait to see them at a future job interview explaining that one, likely in front of a manager who is one of the vast majority of Americans who supports the Arizona law. Priceless.
Those poor kids got tricked into it.
What is the next thing the criminal types who did the smooth talking BS on naïve teenage students going to be? Vest bombs?
Big draw back in government run school system. The main focus being obedience to government masters and very little intelligent training
cook,
That is ridiculous! No they didn’t. You are belittling them when you ought to be praising them. If only more young people cared this much.
Michelle,
Maybe in Ireland the only way for a women to get pregnant is on her back, but here in the Western Hemisphere we’re a little more adventurous!
Maybe in Ireland being adventurous is climbing a mountain or swimming the channel…
We need to teach the kids that getting knocked up is not going to be the adventure they were looking for!
So all the lying in the street and protesting is not going to do squat, when schools like Santa Ana high is the typical example of what the hispanic population is producing…
I suggest a little less adventure in the bedroom, car, field and try climbing a mountain or diving into the work books!
the great one
Posted June 4, 2010 at 6:51 AM
doctor one thing you left out of your one sided view . tea party people dont get arrested for blocking the streets and causing traffic jams . they do it orderly AND FOLLOW THE LAW . wich this group of wet behing the ears kids have a tough time understanding . i guess not following the law runs in the family .
You criticise these kids for their actions and at the same time support actions of Tea Baggers??
You guys are consistant…..apply the constitution selectively.
The name “Tea Party” is a reference to the Boston Tea Party, whose principal aim was to protest taxation without representation.[4][5] Tea Party protests have sought to evoke images, slogans and themes from the American Revolution, such as tri-corner hats and yellow Gadsden “Don’t Tread on Me” flags.[2][6] The letters T-E-A have been used by some protesters to form the backronym “Taxed Enough Already”.[7]
Tactics
The New York Times reported on August 8, 2009 that organizations opposed to the health insurance reform legislation were urging opponents to be disruptive. It noted that the Tea Party Patriots web site circulated a memo instructing them to “Pack the hall. Yell out and challenge the Rep’s statements early. Get him off his prepared script and agenda. Stand up and shout and sit right back down.”[113] The memo continued, “The Rep [representative] should be made to feel that a majority, and if not, a significant portion of at least the audience, opposes the socialist agenda of Washington.”[114]
Some Tea party organizers have stated that they look to leftist radical Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals for inspiration. Protesters have also appropriated left-wing imagery; the logo for the 9/12 March on Washington featured a raised fist design that was intended to resemble those used by pro-labor, anti-war, and black power movements of the 1960s. In addition, the slogan “Keep Your Laws Off My Body”, usually associated with pro-choice activists, has been seen on signs at tea parties.[115]
On April 8, 2010, it was announced that the National Tea Party Federation had been set up to publicize the movement, and in particular to respond to criticism, such as allegations of racist behavior by protesters.[116] On April 26, 2010, the organization sent a letter to the Congressional Black Caucus denouncing racism and requesting that the CBC supply any evidence of the alleged events at the protest on March 20, 2010.[117]
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There have been a number of allegations of racism, gay-bashing, anti-semitism and other abusive behavior by Tea Party protesters.[118][119][120][121][122]
On March 16, 2010, at a Tea Party protest in front of the offices of Representative Mary Jo Kilroy, A counter-protester with Parkinson’s disease was berated and had dollar bills thrown at him with additional protesters also mocking the individual. The protester initially denied the incident, but later apologized for his “shameful” actions.[122]
On March 20, 2010, before the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Bill was voted on in Washington D.C., it was reported that protesters against the bill used racial and homophobic slurs. Several African-American lawmakers said that demonstrators shouted “the N-word” at them.[123] Congressman Emanuel Cleaver said he was spat upon, and Representative André Carson said that as he walked from the Cannon House Office Building with Representative John Lewis, amid chants of “Kill the bill” he heard the “n-word” coming from several places in the crowd,. One man “just rattled it off several times.” Carson quoted Lewis as saying, “You know, this reminds me of a different time.”[124] Conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart, who was not present at the protest, has claimed that the racial slurs and other allegations by Cleaver, Lewis and Carson were fabricated as part of a plan to annihilate by all means necessary, the Tea Party movement, and they never actually happened. He has offered a $100,000 charitable donation to the United Negro College Fund if Lewis can provide audio or video footage of the slurs, or pass a lie detector test.[125][126][127][128] AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka, who was present during the protest, corroborated Lewis’ and Carson’s version of events.[129] Congressman Barney Frank, who is gay, was called a “faggot.”[130]
One of Representative Anthony Weiner’s staffers reported a stream of hostile encounters with tea partiers roaming the halls of Congress. In addition to mockery, protesters left a couple of notes behind. According to the NY Daily Times, one letter “asked what Rahm Emanuel did with Weiner in the shower, in a reference to the mess around ex-Rep Eric Massa. It was signed with a swastika, the staffer said. The other note called the congressman “Schlomo Weiner.”[121]
The National Tea Party Federation sent a letter to the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) denouncing racism and requesting that the CBC supply any evidence of the alleged events at the protest on March 20, 2010.[131]
Black Tea Party protesters said that they have not experienced or witnessed any racial hostility. Charlene Freedman from New Jersey, who had attended four different Tea Party protests, including the health care protest on March 20, 2010, said “I didn’t see color. They didn’t see my color. We’re just American citizens, and we’re here to say, ‘Keep America free’. I’ve heard nothing about racism … nothing at all.”[132]
Hopefully they won’t produce ID for a very long time and stay in jail. then the cries will start that the law for needing ID is promoting racial profiling. LOL
Michelle,
What would you consider a model High School in central OC?
Orange HS
Villa Park HS
Garden Grove HS?
Westminister HS
Tustin HS?
Please enlighten us as to which are the schools you think are models for urban learning.