As with many issues...race and class undeniably lie at the core.

Policy makers are quick to distance themselves from any form of accountability by once again shifting/shaping the debate into one of economic viablility for the land of the "free and entitled."

One of the interesting observations within this growing movement is how the affected people are begining to mobilize their cause to the extent of actually affecting the policy makers to back peddle and shift gears. Now that is something truly noteworthy.

In reading this article...some relevent issues connected to working for change surface.

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"By far the most common comment (beyond people venting about George Bush) is along the lines of: "If the illegal immigrants can flood the streets, why can't we?"

It's very simple. Many of those immigrants (legal or not) feel they're marching for their lives. Bush critics don't have that sense of urgency. Most of us read about the latest abuses and depredations of the Bush cabal and then swear or sigh and go on about our lives. That's the difference. Sad, but true. Beyond that, remarkably enough, critics of Bush, even though we are now a majority of the country, do not have the media infrastructure that immigrants have. The driving force behind the turnout for many of these rallies has been promotion by Spanish language radio. L.A. has at least a dozen such stations, and almost all of them banded together to help turn out up to a million people. Same thing happened in Chicago, in Phoenix, in Miami, in Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, New York, D.C., and on across the country. The liberal blogosphere or Air America can't do that.

They can't do it, and mainstream media won't. The critics of Bush who have been marching: primarily anti-war groups, who have another major national protest scheduled for Saturday, April 29 in New York City, have been ineffective. To date, the sponsoring organizations and rallying cries of such marches have been solidly leftist -- sometimes extremely so -- and turnout has been below expectations. Political leaders (saving a few isolated Democrats, far from their party's leadership) haven't taken these events seriously, and so mainstream media hasn't, either. And so most of the people upset about the direction of our country not only don't know about the protests, but don't share the organizers' political sensibilities anyway."

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