“We never anticipated it getting this big,” reported Lt. Rick Watson, a Dallas Police Public Information Officer. “The estimates were anywhere from 20,000 to 200,000, but all of a sudden they started coming, and they kept coming and kept coming. We estimate that we have 350,000 to 500,000 people down here today.”
Although mostly apparently Hispanic, the protesters included all kinds of people, from every race, color, and nationality. They were young and old; documented and undocumented, middle class and working poor.
The protesters’ signs and banners expressed their singular goals with such phrases as, “Fair Legalization for All Immigrants,” “We are the Voice/Force – Politicians,” “Wanting to Work is Not a Crime,” and “No to HR 4437.”
The megamarcha, as the organizers dubbed the event, was the grand finale of a series of protests during the first weeks of April 2006 led by thousands of students walking out of school and marching on Dallas City Hall. Story by Cliff Pearson, North Texas IndyMedia
See also the megamarch home page:
http://megamarch.com/default.asp
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