By now, no BAMN demand is surprising. Still, this one is interesting.
No Anti-Immigrant Jim Crow Laws!
Full and Equal Rights for All Immigrants!
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The demonstrations also say, ʺNo More!ʺ No more to racist disrespect! No more to marginalization! We demand full rights and equality for all immigrants. We demand to be treated as human beings, as brothers and sisters, and we accept no less.
Over a million people marched in L.A., hundreds of thousands marched in Chicago, tens of thousands in Milwaukee, St. Louis, Phoenix, Atlanta, and other cities and towns coast to coast. High school students have walked out of their schools for each of these marches. In Georgia, 80,000 workers went on strike.
This new mass movement makes clear that the attacks on affirmative action and integration can and will be defeated, that all of the recent racist attacks can be beaten back and reversed. We must build mass organizations in our schools, workplaces, and in our neighborhoods. The students and youth of BAMN have been and will be a decisive part of the leadership of this new movement. We must spread the word about the need for ongoing organization of a militant, integrated, youth‐led civil rights movement.
“We demand to be treated as human beings, as brothers and sisters, and we accept no less.”
Fine. Obey the law, just like everyone else, or we will prosecute you no less than we prosecute other criminals.
The students and youth of BAMN have been and will be a decisive part of the leadership of this new movement.
That’s the funny thing about revolutions. Everybody thinks he’s going to be the leader.