Mon 11 Sep 2006
Immigration Movement Struggles to Regain Momentum Built in Spring Marches - New York Times
Posted by karthick under usnews[KR: This is something we had discussed in the migration working group at APSA, as to whether we could reliably predict what kind of turnout there would be in the fall protests, and I don't remember anyone saying that it would be so low. Given the lack of reliable predictions on either sets of protests, who knows what the electoral impact will be this November?]
“..political analysts, policy makers and immigrants alike are questioning the staying power of the fledgling immigrant rights movement. Can the disparate group of churches, unions and immigrant rights organizations that tapped the frustration of immigrant communities transform itself into a political force that can reliably mobilize the masses to march and vote?”
Story in New York Times