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...whites and blacks as well - wear serious faces, but there is a sense that this is as much an event as a rally, as busloads of kids, large trucks and ordinary drivers whip by honking approval for a gathering that police expect to grow to some 300,000 in Chicago alone. Newspapers carrying the headline "Today We March, Tomorrow We Vote" in Spanish are read by dozens in the crowd as they wait...
...notice.? And notice they will. Despite grey skies warning of strong showers later in the day, the crowd gains bulk. Old, young, some tired from a night or weekend spent in the park to get ready for the march, which will take this crowd a few miles east to Chicago?s Grant Park. ?This is the way that America was built,? said Ivan Miller, 43, a criminal justice student at Westwood College near O?Hare International Airport. ?I?m a black man, and I don?t take offense that the spotlight is on this one population. That?s what America...
...Closer to 10 a.m., the crowd was pushing through the park, numbering a few hundred as they wait for the march to begin around noon. But not everyone was taking the day off to protest. Manuel Escelante, 46, a Honduran and Chicago Park District worker, was busy cleaning the very park that the organizers were using as a rallying point. ?I can?t leave my job,? he said, pointing to a line of leaves and rubbish left just outside the park?s wrought iron gates. ?This looks terrible. I?m with them, my heart, but I have...
...Anna Garcia, a native of Honduras, says she attended the Miami rally because "the U.S. government needs to know we're all united. They have to know we are here and being productive." In Cicero, Ill., a mostly Hispanic suburb of Chicago, the usually hectic downtown area was eerily desolate as marchers of all ages joined an estimated 300,000 people in the Windy City, who chanted, "Today we march, tomorrow we vote." Jose Torres, owner of the popular El Meson Mexican Restaurant in Cicero, who marched with his family and 18 employees, said he gave up over...
...Students played a key role in Monday's marches. Although school superintendents and politicians had urged students to stay in class, many kids played hooky anyway. In Chicago, an estimated 70% to 90% of students at the predominantly Latino high schools did not show up for school, according to Ana Vargas, a Chicago public schools spokeswoman. In Los Angeles, some 72,000 students in 6th to 12th grades skipped classes, according to the Los Angeles Unified School District. Ulises Estrada, a 16-year-old student at South Dade High School in Homestead, Fla., said he joined a local march because...