July 8. Several hundred in the corrals plus scores on the sidewalk.
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The protest in front of 250 Park Avenue where the HQ of Major League Baseball is located was strong, evocative. A great example of Democracy in action. Well organized. Ethnic news media out in force. Online news media also stronly represented. Mainstream corporate media were, so to speak, represented by WPIX and CNN whose news reps were working the holding corral where the rally-ers were confined and there were sidewalk interviews). And there were lot of reporters jotting notes in their stenos but none were wearing a NYPD Press Pass which the mainstream reporters sport prominently. So, it’s safe to assume that the mainstream corporate news organizations were milquetoast for this event (though threre was a few seconds of action on Channel 2, the NBC affiliate for the 5 o’clock news). Nothing in later editions of the newspapers.
Co-sponsored by New York Civil Liberties Union, The New York Immigration Coalition, American Immigration Lawyers Association New York Chapter, African Services Committee, Bill of Rights Defense Committee, Boycott Arizona NYC, Cabrini Immigrant Services, CARECEN, Council on American-Islamic Relations-NY, Democracy for New York City, Greater New York City for Change, Greater New York Labor-Religion Coalition, La Union de La Comunidad Latina, Left Labor Project, Long Island Immigrant Alliance, Minkwon Center for Community Action, NAACP New York State Conference, New Immigrant Community Empowerment, New York Civic Participation Project, Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrants Rights, Queens Community House, Sikh Coalition.
