Thursday, June 03, 2010

Student immigrants use civil rights-era strategies

These students are using strategies that worked before, maybe they will work now. - - Donna Poisl

By RUSSELL CONTRERAS (AP)

BOSTON — They gather on statehouse steps with signs and bullhorns, risking arrest. They attend workshops on civil disobedience and personal storytelling, and they hold sit-ins and walk out of class in protest. They're being warned that they could even lose their lives.

Students fighting laws that target illegal immigrants are taking a page from the civil rights era, adopting tactics and gathering praise and momentum from the demonstrators who marched in the streets and sat at segregated lunch counters as they sought to turn the public tide against racial segregation.
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