Santa Ana Will Be Jumping On May 1

It stands to reason that Santa Ana will be a ground-zero of agitation on May 1, the date for the "Day Without An Immigrant" boycott, and a little Googling confirms it.

Actionla.org has a "List of May 1 Actions" detailing locations and times for protestors to gather. Here's the entry for OC:

Students in Orange County should march to two strategic locations (although they apparently haven't decided on what time to meet yet):

Ed Royce
305 N. Harbor Blvd., Suite 300
Fullerton, CA

or

Ronald Reagan Federal Building
411 W. 4th St.
Santa Ana, CA

Some points for students to consider:

- No violence or property destruction

- Avoid profanity or racial insults

- Make sure all signs are spelled correctly and free of grammatical errors.

- If someone asks about the flag you wave, tell the person you carry it to express cultural and ethnic pride, not to show allegiance to any government.

- Be wary of any informational forum held by police, schools, or government agencies. They want to mislead you with political jargon and empty promises. Don't fall for it!

Don't worry kids: the "grown-ups" in the state Senate say it's A-OK to skip school!

Anti-illegal immigration activists will be on hand, too:

There is an upcoming rally on May 1st (Hispanic Boycott US Day)... details below:

Santa Ana City Hall
20 Civic Center Drive
Santa Ana, CA 92701
10:30AM - 1:30PM

This rally is to support no amnesty, enforce our current immigration laws and secure our borders! Bring the biggest American flags that you can! I know that it is a work day so if you can only come during you lunch hour, all bodies are approcated! We will be meeting on the sidewalk at the Santa Ana Library (Civic Center Drive and Ross Street). City Hall is next to the library.

The Rules:

Stay On The Sidewalk

No Blocking Driveways Or Streets

No Violence

No Flag Burning

Bring Your Enthusiasm!

I presume the "no flag burning" refers to Mexican flags.

Over at EspacioAlternativo.com, they are taking the boycott very seriously:

Remember MAY 1 MAJOR US BOYCOTT!
no work + no tv + no school + no sex + no booze + no drugs

That might put a crimp in turnout.

They're also planning an Open Mic Marathon that day!:

We’re planning on doing a marathon open mic that day, MONDAY MAY 1ST ALL DAY!

come one, come all to exchange your ideas, poetry, art, music, performance, music, genes + more…

MAY 1st OPEN MIC MARATHON
From 11am to 11pm
CSA 410-B W. 4th St. Santa Ana, RIGHT ACCROSS THE R. REAGAN COURTHOUSE!

more info at [email protected] or [email protected]

We’ll start signing people up from monday april 24th at 10am and we’ll close the list friday april 28th at 10pm. we’ll play as the usual first come first served until we’re all booked! 2 songs or 10 mins max (TBD/TBA).

Someone ought to drive Sir Eldon Griffiths over that day, and make the organizer rue the day they ever heard of "open mic" events.

Comments

[Capo Annie]

The real untold story is our state legislators who are getting 3 days worth of per diem (if they show up for roll-call on Monday they get paid for the weekend too), yet taking Monday off in recognition of the boycott! Like the taxpayers won't take a big enough hit from the police overtime, lost wages, kids missing school, etc., etc.

[el s]

aint it high time we force a part-time state legislature with part-time pay?

it makes me nervous that they convene as often as they do. do we really need THAT many new laws?

[Comandante Agi]

I presume the "no flag burning" refers to Mexican flags.

I have never heard of an American flag being burned at any one of the immigrant rights marches. While watching CNN a few weeks ago I saw a few anti-immigrant Minutemen burn a Mexican flag.

[Capo Annie]

Re: Legislature, I agree! The one especially scary law that frequently results from so much of lawmakers' work is that of "unintended consequences."

[May Day]

What ever happened to surprising people with fresh flowers on May day? That's the tradition I grew up with in Santa Ana. The times they are a changin'

"No Violence

No Flag Burning"

Doesn't that take some of the fun out civil unrest aka riots?

If you do go take your video Camera so you can get some footage of the S.A. cops teaching the "kids" how to behave.

Interesting how the minutemen will gather prior to the start of the other events.

[Minute Minions]

We are a bunch of ragtag unemployed activists. Where should we go on Monday?

[Arnold Schwarzenegger]

Remember, no beer or weed Monday either my little brown friends.

[stacey]

Why don’t the little scholars march to TJ where the government is really oppressive? The US is the most diverse nation this planet for immigrants and immigrants rights. If this were really a rally about rights, why don’t the organizers send the kids to Mexico City where the condition are so bad and the government is so corrupt that refuges are fleeing in massive numbers? The immigration reform was set to go thru, the President Bush was going to sign an amnesty program, and these marches have had the opposite effect. The reform is now hung in congress, and there will be no reform after the US public sees that the children of immigrants marching in their neighborhoods. This march is a bad idea; the police in Orange Country will enforce Juvenal truancy laws. Kids ditching school is against the law and will leave the residents no choice but to call on the city to do their job.

[sick of it]

Why doesn't the INS show up with all the empty school busses and use them to ship the illegals to tijuana

[Manny]

Manny Manniford here. At the risk of sounding rude.

Most of your comments here are completely missing the point. If the target you are trying to hit was as wide as an ocean, you would have still missed.

I dont wish to sound superior to all of you, it's just that I am. So let me direct you to the most informed opinion on this subject, which happens to be posted at my personal blog: http://itsrainingmanny.blogspot.com

If I have to read one more persons opinion suggesting that the immigration issue can be solved through a combination of legislation and deportation, you will have rankled a sleeping beast, and you will know the color of my wrath when you awake to the sound of slaughtered sheep, screaming for mercy.

Please do me a favor, and have a nice weekend.

http://itsrainingmanny.blogspot.com

[White Wab]

A million Mexicans line the streets of Santa Ana? Funny thing is...in Santa Ana no one will notice the crowds...they'll just think it's another sidewalk sale on 4th street....Wouldn't it make more sense, in a city jammed to the gills with Mexicans 24/7 that they would LEAVE the city of Santa Ana for one day to show thier power and numbers? A field trip to Corona Del Mar would have get more headlines. Imagine 500,000 Mexicans at Fashion Island, or Balboa Island, or Foothill Ranch! Now that would make the news.

[White Wab]

A million Mexicans line the streets of Santa Ana? Funny thing is...in Santa Ana no one will notice the crowds...they'll just think it's another sidewalk sale on 4th street....Wouldn't it make more sense, in a city jammed to the gills with Mexicans 24/7 that they would LEAVE the city of Santa Ana for one day to show thier power and numbers? A field trip to Corona Del Mar would get more headlines. Imagine 500,000 Mexicans at Fashion Island, or Balboa Island, or Foothill Ranch! Now that would make the news.

[JozefColomy]

"I love being able to work here so much that I'm going to not go to work to show it!"

[Manny]

No offense White Wab, but your blog is the most trite intellectually bankrupt thing I have ever heard.

Let's pretend for a moment that something you wrote had even an ounce of truth. What would you suggest is the answer to a crowded street sale? Now, your not talking so big, are you?

By not addressing the points which I so eloquently layed out in my earlier post, you have proven yourself to be a weak and ineffectual blogger. You should be embarassed and should hide your head in shame.

http://itsrainingmanny.blogspot.com

[Jim]

Manny Manniford is trying to be funny, like Iowahawk. And failing.

[tylerh]

stacey wrote: The US is the most diverse nation this planet for immigrants and immigrants rights.

While a patriotic sentiment, this is not particularly accurate. I believe Canada lets in more immigrants per capita than we do. I definitely know that Candadians extend more rights to immigrants-in-progress then the US. As for diversity, well, all I can say is: you need to get out more. We are Americans are a bunch of clones when compared to the world's largest democracy, India. Or consider Israel: fewer people than LA county, but they need four different alphabets to keep that country running.

Sorry I won't be able to follow up on this -- I'll abroad the next couple of weeks.

[White wab]

Dear Don Jose,

Of course what I write is trite (poem). I'm a white wab! My point, again, is that to jam the streets of Santa Ana with Mexicans to make a point makes no sense. Don't let me tell you how to run your protests but I don't think anyone will notice.The streets of Santa Ana are packed with Mexicans every day. Not a bad thing, just a fact. Now if you really want to make the news, you load everyone on an OCTA bus, (heckif you allow the OCTA staff to lecture them on the finer points of Measure M...they might pay for the buses and call it ethnic outreach) and you drive down to those little grass strips of land over looking Big Corona, where the Newport Beach councilman had a fit because a couple of Mexican family showed up there a couple of years ago. You take your buses there and you have yourself a real stand out event! Stop off at Gelsons for 500,000 sandwitches and you will make International news. Like I said, it's not my place to tell you how to protest. I'm just trying, in my own little trite way, to bring peace to the world of Central O.C. DIOS TE BENDIGA!

[justice]

White wab, you are a racist! You noticed that the streets of Santa Ana are packed with Mexicans.

[No Protests Here]

Stacey.

Are you suggesting the US should take its lead from Mexico on how to treat people and not provide opportunity for its citizens? Or are you just cherry picking the aspects of a society you don't like to suit your personal distaste?

[Hanna]

Travelers, too, to Sacramento from JWA for the price of $8.15 (plus tax and fees that will toatl more than $10):

On the heels of its $60 one-day, one-way fare from Sacramento to Honolulu next week, Aloha Airlines on Thursday said it's going even lower: an $8.15 ticket for its inaugural flight on Monday, May 1, from Sacramento to John Wayne Airport in Orange County.

The price reflects the 8:15 p.m. departure of one of the two weekday flights the carrier will begin operating between Sacramento and Orange County, said Thom Nulty, Aloha's senior vice president of sales and marketing. It also will run one flight a day on weekends.

(snip)

The $8.15 and $60 fares are available only at www.alohaairlines.com. Phone reservations at (800) 367-5250 incur an additional charge of $10.

http://www.sacbee.com/content/travel/bee/story/14249043p-15066168c.html

[Taxpayer]

I think I will protest the fact that my tax dollars are being used to support illegal immigrants. On Monday I will change my tax withholding to be essentially zero. Then in December I will pay enough in to meet exception 1 for penalty purposes.

If enough people did the same it would send a loud message to the politicians to stop exacerbating the illegal immigration problem by providing a huge economic incentive to come here in the form of free education and free healthcare.

We need the labor so let’s provide a legal means for guest workers to come for short periods of time without bringing their entire families to be educated on the taxpayer’s dime.