one in a million

Here we are at the very beginning - over an hour before it actually began. Walking together, the "white for peace" mass converging, waiting patiently.

The smallest protester and my favorite sign.
Protest march in LA against HR 4437 - anywhere between 500,000 - 1 million were there. So, even though none of my friends could make it, lots of other people's friends did.

I tried to walk around the whole thing to get a sense of how many people there were - my guess was about 500,000. I took off after the walk, around noon, because it fried my brain. Not only did the march stretch 26 blocks, but people were crammed like sardines for that whole time.

The one thing I'd stress in contrast to the LA Times article I link above is that the overwhelming majority was NOT labor, civil rights, and religious groups - almost every single person I saw there was Latino (most) or Korean with lots and lots of grandparents and infants and everybody in-between. Of course they could be fifth generation, like I am, but everybody was speaking Spanish around me. And there may have been groups of others, but I saw extremely few people of my complexion. Which was all fine, and I hope this mobilization of the brown makes lawmakers take note.

Taking Metrolink - very good choice. Glad I did it, would gladly do it again. LA Union Station, very nice - with a courtyard and everything!

Y si - SOMOS UN PUEBLO SIN FRONTERA.