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Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Sunday, May 14, 2006

'Equal-time' talk fuels protest

Some complain they were not allowed to ask questions at event
ERIC SAGARA
Photos by FRANCISCO MEDINA/Tucson Citizen
Published: 05.13.2006

About 70 Tucson High Magnet School students took off their overshirts and displayed pro-Latino T-shirts in protest of a speech given Friday by Margaret Garcia-Dugan, a Republican and the state's deputy superintendent of public instruction.

Slogans on the T-shirts included: "You can silence my voice but not my spirit," "Prop 203 is anti-Latino" and "English only is anti-Latino." Others stuck blue tape over their mouths. Some raised their right arms in protest. Most stood silently during the speech. When asked to sit down, they turned around and walked out of the assembly after Garcia-Dugan had stopped speaking.

Nine-hundred students attended the assembly.

posted by missionaryman | 8:50 AM

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