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Tens of thousands marched, protested, or formed a human chain during yesterday's "A Day Without An Immigrant" rallies. However, the NY marches paled in comparison to the ones in Los Angeles (an estimated 800,000) and Chicago (400,000). One immigrant who took yesterday off lost her job at a midtown deli and was profiled mentioned in both the NY Times and NY Post: Sylvia Garcia's boss (and a Korean immigrant) Patrick Lee said ten employees asked for Monday off, "It was irresponsible. You don't come to me at 5 on Friday and say you're not showing up on Monday. If they had given notice, it would have been different." (The Post says he fired six workers, as four others came back to work.)
The day came to close with the rally at Union Square, march down Broadway, ending at Foley Square. What we noticed was a huge police presence; we found this comment on Gothamist Contribute interesting:
Cops tried to confuse marchers by keeping most of the crowd back in Union Square so the Foley square rally ended before they got there. They then removed barriers thinking people would disseminate. Instead they grouped in the square. When police forced them to move they ended up going on the brooklyn bridge's car lanes. Cops finally stopped this and everyone started going home, slowly.Did you march or see the marchers? What did you observe?
More photos, links and comments in yesterday's post.
Photograph by somenoise on Flickr
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$9/hr! More than what I get and I am a citizen with a college degree!
There were definitely two waves of people. All of my photos from yesterday were from the first wave around 6pm. But then a whole other wave of protesters showed up at Foley Square at around 7:30. If they had all been there at once, it would have seemed a lot bigger.
At 23rd and Broadway/5th, the police blocked access going south at 5:30pm yesterday. Didn't see them at that time, but heard load chanting west of there.
I actually am the one who left that message in gothamist contribute. I have pictures documenting everything in my flickr stream, which also happens to contain the pic in this post, so if you link up and go to the end of the set you can see pictures of what I described.
Yeah, wow, $9 is pretty good.
How long before the liberals try to turn her into Rosa Parks...I think I hear it starting...