200,000+ at the Washington Mall on sunday: immigrant rights

[Hannah Bell]

At the massive march in Washington Sunday, immigrant workers condemned the continuing raids, deportations and discrimination they are suffering under the Obama administration, even as speakers from the platform urged support for the Democrats.


Estimates of the numbers who participated in Sunday’s demonstration ranged from 200,000 to half a million, as immigrant workers, their families and supporters packed the national mall in to demand an end to deportations and legal rights for the 12 million undocumented workers living in the United States.

Hundreds of buses from 35 states began dropping off demonstrators, some as early as 9 a.m. for the rally that was to begin at 1 p.m. Thousands of people came from as far away as California, Texas and Florida for what is by far the largest demonstration anywhere in the US since Barack Obama took office.

All ages, from babies in strollers to the elderly, took part. Many families consisting of three generations could be seen walking together or listening to the speakers. In many cases, the grandparents had come to the US with young children who are now grown with children of their own, who were born in the US and are citizens.

[pkdu]

1. Ahh yes...but less 1000 Tea-Baggers get wall-to-wall coverage

on Faux-News with zero mentions of the other march.

Faux-News ...."Fairly Imbalanced" (to say the least)

[Bitwit1234]

2. i was just going to post that. It is sickening that the MSM

is supposed to be so ""liberal"" isn't it.

[Hannah Bell]

3. i'm fairly stunned. i saw nothing about this anywhere. somewhere between

200K to half a million merits no coverage?

and those stupid teabaggers get non-stop coverage?

really orwellian.

on edit: checking google news, i guess there was some coverage -- but not major, & i didn't see it on the tv news, though maybe i wasn't looking at the right time. but it was huge, so why not wall to wall as with the bee-taggers.