estimated sizes of immigrant protests by city

From: Kaveri Rajaraman [mailto:krajaram@fas.harvard.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 3:15 PM
To: secular
Subject: [SA] Size of Immigrant protests by city

Here is a breakdown of the estimated sizes of the gigantic immigrant
rights protests that happened in the last 2 weeks against the bill in
Congress that is a major assault on immigrant rights:

March 10, Los Angles CA - 100,000 rallied to protest tough changes in
immigration law.
March 14, Philadelphia's - 1,000 rallied for "life, liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness
March 15, Monterey CA, 200 rallied
March 17 & 18,! Santa Cruz, 1,000
March 18, Seattle WA, 2,000
March 18, Chicago IL, 100,000
March 24, Milwaukee WI 10,000 marched
March 24, Phoenix AZ, 20,000 gathered at the biggest demonstrations in city
history
March 24, Los Angeles CA 500,000 or half a million rallied for immigrant
rights
March 24, Los Angeles CA 2,800 student walkouts from 10 local high schools
and middle schools
March 24, Denver CO, 50,000 protested downtown
March 24, Riverside CA, 400 students at two campuses in the Moreno Valley
Unified School District
March 24, Atlanta GA, 80,000 workers struck and hundreds protested GA state
bill similar to HH4437 that passed on Friday.
March 25, Denver CO, 50,000
March 25, Dallas TX, 1,500
March 25, Kansas KA, 2,000 people was the largest Hispanic protest gathering
in
March 25, Charlotte NC, 5,000 and 7,000
March 25, Sacramento CA, 4,000 people protested immigration legislation at
an annual march honoring the late farm lab! or leader Cesar Chavez.
March 25, Los Angeles CA, 500,000 or half a million rallied for immigrant
rights

A Seattle Youth against War and Racism activist compiled this information.
Cheers
Kaveri