By Clare - Heads up collective/catalyst project

Here is a snapshot of the past month’s immigrant justice movement
building. Over 60 events (around 3 million people) here barely begin to
represent the power of what’s going on, although you can almost see it
when looking at the past couple days of thousands of highschool students
walking out in protest repeatedly!

It’s unbelievable how little coverage there is (it took me hours to
compile this). The fully grassroots nature of most of these actions (many
fueled/organized by radio, tv, myspace and cellphones) is promising…

For all of us who had the chance to be part of this past week’s explosive
demonstrations, and for us non-immigrants who have the gift of being part
of this incredible movement, this is the time. Allies need to step it up!
More to follow….

3/7 D.C. 20,000
3/8 Atlanta 100 in city hall
3/10 Chicago 300,000
3/11 Tampa “several hundred”
3/14 Topeka KS “several hundred”
3/17 Santa Cruz 500
3/20 Trenton 1,200
3/22 Providence 200
3/23 Milwaukee 30,000
3/23 Racine WI

3/24 FRIDAY
*Phoenix 30,000
*Tucson 1,500
*Kansas City 2,000
*Dallas 1,500
*L.A. 2,700 students walked off at least 8 campuses, others rallied on
campuses and at least one highschool, students climbed the gate after
administrators declared a lockdown
*Atlanta estimated 80,000 workers boycotted, 200 rallied at capitol
*Gainesville GA boycott, hundreds of students honor boycott (over 40% of
students)

3/25 Saturday
*L.A. 1- 2 million
*Denver 50,000
*Charlotte, NC 7,000
*Sacramento 4,000 +
*Watsonville and Salinas 2,500 (with the march from
Tijuana)
*Houston 5-6,000 rally for DREAM act
*Cleveland rally organized by latino pastors coalition
*and tons of smaller cities I can't find turnout
estimates for, including Boise, Knoxville, and Reno

3/26 Sunday
Columbus 4-7,000
L.A. 2,000
NYC/Washington Heights: 500

3/27 MONDAY
San Francisco: 5,000? (hunger strike ends; march joins up with the March
for Peace/Peregrinacion por la Paz from Tijuana)
Santa Ana:700 rally while 200+ riot cops invade their neighborhood
Watsonville march
Detroit & Grand Rapids: over 50,000
Boston 2,000
Columbus ?
D.C. 1,500 + 100 clergy
Denver: strategy meeting, 200, mostly latin@ & some union organizers
ending with work groups
Louisville KY 3,000

WALKOUTS:
L.A. 25-40, 000 (LA daily news) highschool walk out, blocking freeways,
encircle city hall, from 52 high and middle schools
Orange county highschoolers take over the Riverside Freeway
Sacramento: 70
Fresno: over 500
San diego: 1,000+
San Jose: several hundred
Santa ana: morning, high school students shut down treasuer/tax
collection office
Phoenix: 400 walk out, march to capitol
Farmersville (central Valley CA) 200
Also thousands of walkouts in Aptos, Hollister, Salinas, San Luis Obispo, and Pasco, Washington.

3/28 Tuesday, ALL WALKOUTS
L.A. 6,000 walkout from 25 schools
Long beach: 400
San diego 3,000 walk out, rallies at chicano park, campuses
Watsonville 1,000
Houston TX 1,000
Dallas 3,300 walk out & rally at city hall
Springdale, Arkansas: 36 highschoolers
Phoenix hundreds walk out, march to capitol again
Farmersville walkouts day 2
Northern Virginia: 250 highschoolers, 8 middle schoolers

Wed 3/29/06 WALKOUTS
Las vegas: 500
Phoenix: hundreds
Houston: hundreds
Nashville
l.a. schools on lockdown, hundreds of students still protesting

Next steps being discussed:

April 4th :Some students are calling for a national student sit-in

April 8th: The organizers in LA announced a national meeting for

April 8 in Dallas, Texas of all the Latino immigrant rights leaders in the country to strategize for a national work stoppage in late May under the banner "A Day Without An
Immigrant." This would be following on the action in Philadelphia Feb 14th and building off last Friday’s boycott in Georgia.

April 10th: National day of action

April 23rd: day of action in san francisco

May 1st: General Strike?