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On March 27th two separate demonstrations merged in downtown San
Francisco. One was for immigrants rights; the other against the war.
March 27th was the culmination of a week-long hunger strike that had
been taking place in San Francisco’s Federal Building. The hunger
strikers were protesting HR-4437, the anti-immigrant bill that had
sparked massive demonstrations across the country. The hunger strike
ended yesterday with a noon march from the Federal Building to the
downtown office of Senator Diane Fienstien.
March 27th was also the culmination of a twelve day march called the
‘March For Peace.’ Starting in Tiajuana, Mexico and ending in San
Francisco’s Mission District, the March was led by war resisters Pablo
Paredes, Camilo Mejia, Aidan Delgado, and Fernando Suarez del Solar –
father of Jesus, a US soldier killed in Iraq.
All together about 5,000 people marched in the streets of San
Francisco yesterday, bringing together two seemingly separate issues
into one united march. As was stated at the rally, the “war on terror”
is a war on the poor and a war on immigrants. It is under the guise of
“national security” that the attacks on immigrants are being carried
out. It is under this guise that the border is being militarized and
the poor are being sent to die in the war in Iraq.
Tomorrow at San Francisco State, Students Against War will be holding,
alongside other campus organizations an immigrants rights speakout and
protest. This event was called in response to the College Republicans
decision to hold an anti-immigrant bake sale in the quad.
In Solidarity,
Kristin
SFSU/Campus Antiwar Network