Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Historic Photos: Between Half-million and a Million Protesters March against Immigrant Law in Los Angeles

Thanks to my colleague, Octavio Pimentel, I've got some great pictures here on the march in Los Angeles.
If you got to this link, you'll see that the number of marchers in L.A. could have been as high as a million. These pictures make this higher estimate credible. Click the photo for higher resolution. -Angela


















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2 comments:

  1. Unknown2:09 AM

    If they want to live in the US why the fuck they wave a Mexican Flag?
    These is the kind of people I really hate: poor and ignorants which only use fallacious logics. They're NOT native. They are a mix of white people and native americans, but they speak SPANISH, they write in LATIN LETTERS, they believe in CHRISTIANISM. They're no more aztecs or whatever they think they are.
    And....seriously....they really think the land taken by the US after a WAR belonged to them? They're pretty ridicolous because California, Nevada, Arizona and Texas were NOT part of Mexico or an aztec kingdom before the spanish conquer. For me they were, are and will be always a mix.

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  2. Angela Valenzuela3:42 AM

    For colonizers, we will never be native. That's the essence of colonization--to forever make us seem and feel like foreigners on our native land. Our ancestors never left the continent. And the Aztec/Mexica people exist in abundance and are able to navigate within and across indigenous and Christian ways of knowing that may sound foreign or strange but is in fact a lived reality and hardly as simplistic as you make it seem to be. Nahuatl, the language of the Mexica, is spoken today as among the most widely-spoken indigenous tongues today. As mestizos and mestizas today for so many of us, including myself, we carry more indigenous blood than any other. Yes, there is mixture, but historically, it is as much or more within native people than between native people and European-origin or others. This is not political hyperbole, but genetic and historical fact.

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