Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Are the voices of the protesters againt minute men being heard?

In Chicago, four anti-racist activist were sentenced on April twenty-fifth to a Court supervision and community service work. This happened during a peacefully protest against the anti-immigrant Minute Men project. They got sentenced because they pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery. This four along with five hundred other people who were protesting against a conference and a boot camp that the minute men were holding at a local school. The minute men are considered as a group who opposes immigration, organizes armed vigilantes to patrol and supposedly "protect" the U.S. border. The result of the protest was good because the eventually decided to drop all the charges against the four.

Some questions that I have woudl be:
- How many innocent people who to jail because of injustifiable acts?
- Why do the minute men have very stong feelings about immigrants?
- Why does the state allow this type of projects to keep on going?

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