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 "We're with you today!" |
AMNESTY
MARCH ON WASHINGTON OCT. 12, 1996 -- The "March" was led by an arm of the Mexican Army, the Drum an Bugle Corps of the Municipio de Tijuana and a contingent of Brown Berets.. It was truly surreal to see all those Mexican Flags and the well disciplined Mexican Drum and Bugle Corps marching in cadence to the drums and bugles with tens of thousands of Latinos following and heading towards the White House. |
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Union activists, immigrants rally for workers' rights June 10, 2000 -- "We are on the side of working people everywhere," Linda Chavez-Thompson, an AFL-CIO executive vice president, told the crowd. "We don't care whether their families came here on the Mayflower or slave ships 400 years ago, ..., or last year across the Mexican border." |
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