On May 1, 2006 hundreds of thousands marched in Los Angeles and other large U.S. cities in support of immigrant rights. Called by many “A Day without an Immigrant,” the May Day protests were the culmination of months of planning in response to a punitive immigration bill that passed the U.S. House of Representatives (H.R. 4437). Known as the “Sensenbrenner Bill,” the legislation would have introduced severe new criminal penalties on undocumented people for seemingly minor infractions and severe new limitations on access to essential services. While it passed through the House of Representatives with near-unanimous Republican support, it drew widespread opposition, generating mass mobilizations in L.A., Chicago, New York, and Dallas, and smaller “Day Without An Immigrant” protests across the country.
This video is from the Los Angeles Independent Media Center (IMC). Independent media in LA and elsewhere was an important venue for social movement news in the early 2000s, but in Los Angeles the large crowds were also mobilized by Spanish-language commercial radio and television stations that embraced the call to oppose H.R. 4437.
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“THE MAY DAY MARCHES; Cities’ Immigrants Spoke One Language This Time; Rallies Attract More than a Million People of Varied Nationalities across the U.S. The Effect of the Economic Boycott Remains Unclear.: [HOME EDITION] – Los Angeles Times – ProQuest.” Accessed January 31, 2020. https://search.proquest.com/latimes/docview/422125282/B0609268A41C4AB7PQ/12?accountid=14512.
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