Monday (May 1) might be an interesting day to shop and eat out.

[TahitiNut]

Just how many businesses (and which ones) are employing (illegal?) immigrants at sub-standard wages to such a degree that they'll be forced to close down? How many motels and hotels will have dirty sheets and dirty bathrooms? (Should the Health Department be notified?) How many businesses will have dirty bathrooms, filthy floors, and full wastebaskets?

Yes. It'll be an interesting day. :eyes:

[rzemanfl]

1. Florida Residents, please don't ruin my Monday. The Hotel

and Restaurant Division of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation handles complaints about restaurants and hotels, NOT THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT!

[johnnie]

2. I don't think we will feel any change up here

I am sure that there will be an impact in many cities though.

[TahitiNut]

5. I think the 'housing boom' in Phoenix might slow up a bit.

The sound of hammers will, most likely, be muted. I'll have to ask my aunt and uncle to listen. :dunce:

[otohara]

3. Maybe I'll Go Out For Lunch

and complain about the lousy service with out their slave labor force

[Minnesota Libra]

4. I don't think it will happen but I hope the entire country shuts down.....

.....because then people will wake up and things will begin to change but I'm not sure everyone will be happy with the changes.:shrug:

[mondo joe]

10. People are rarely happy when they get what they asked for.

I expect this would be the same.

[DURHAM D]

6. I know of at least one local restaurant that is closing on

Monday. They are posting a note as to the reason and asking everyone to support the local latino community.

[TahitiNut]

7. I doubt I'd ever eat there again.

:shrug: (I'm not at all fond of 'Mexican' food - or what passes for 'Mexican' food in the U.S.)

[TahitiNut]

8. On second thought, I might try Don Pablo's for a fajita on Monday.

:evilgrin:

[DURHAM D]

12. You misread the note - they are closing to give everyone the

day off and I forgot to mention - with pay. The owners and employees are all speaking in solidarity with their co-workers. The restaurant is old school and as white bread as you can get and some of their latino employees have been with them for over 15 years.

I saw it as a good thing - did I miss something?

[Robbie Michaels]

9. I Joked With A Friend

That the only place you'll find Mexican food in my neighborhood on Monday will be Taco Bell.

[TahitiNut]

11. Yep. That's what Norte Americano's call 'Mexican food'.

:rofl:

It's really disgusting that the southern Mexican cuisines aren't what're regarded as 'Mexican.' We get that northern, adulterated carbo-crap. Yuch.

[Gabi Hayes]

13. ha! I'm going to be in Chicago, just south of what they're predicting

to be the largest march EVER there


unfortunately, I'm going to be at the aquarium with 310 junior high schoolers

it may take us seven hours to make the 40 mile trip back to school

going to be an interesting day

bringing a book as well as a book on tape

[KoKo]

14. If only "WE AVERAGE AMERICANS" had the guts to do this.......

wouldn't it be "grand."

I'm sure I'm alone in this view...but it did me good to post it...:D

All the "downsizings/mergers/outsourcing and the rest has made me very cynical about the "rest of us" who live in America.

Mo Power to the Hispanics. THEY have the SPINE that we (who feel we are "entitled" seem to lack these days)...:-(

[TahitiNut]

15. You're not alone.

To me, a nation of people willing to go on a general strike for labor equity and withdrawal of military force in over 120 nations would be symptomatic of a healthy nation - not a 'step' but a healthy 'body politic.'

Instead, staging a one-day 'boycott' to preserve the 'right' to work for below-poverty wages and continued indentures to predatory corporations is appalling to me. The corporatists are sipping champagne in glee as their "Mondays off" household staff go get some exercise.

"What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar."
... has become ...
"What this country needs is a good $4/hour dishwasher who can't vote."

:puke: