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Via Workers World News Service
Reprinted
from the Sept. 5, 1996
issue of Workers World newspaper
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One of the first protest actions against the Democratic Party's National Convention in Chicago this year was a march for immigrant rights on Aug. 25. Organized by a coalition of community groups, the demonstration grew to over 1,500 as hundreds of Latinos joined in from Chicago's Mexican Pilsen district.
Carrying placards saying "Uno voz" (one voice), the placards announced the upcoming Latino Civil Rights march on Washington Oct. 12.
Some 300 youths from various groups who traveled from all over the country to be part of the anti-convention action also marched with the Latinos. These youths helped take the protest into the streets, after it was initially stopped by the police.
Despite claims by the media and city government of a low-key police presence, the city has organized an extensive police plan to restrict the rights of protesters. It also represses the African American community nearest the convention site.
The night before the immigration march, residents of the Henry Horner housing project were suddenly given a police order to be in their homes with lights out by 11 p.m.
[Gloria La Riva is the Workers World Party vice-presidential candidate.]
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