Osama Bin Laden wasn’t the only death on Sunday. May Day immigration reform rallies across the country died, too.
In Los Angeles, for example, organizers boasted that 50,000 energized protesters would rally for immigration reform in on May Day. In reality, only a few hundred showed up.
The Los Angeles Times reports the sad news:
There were American flags, union banners and vendors hawking treats such as ice cream and hot dogs wrapped in bacon.
But what was missing from this year’s May Day march on a crystal-clear Sunday morning were the crowds.
By 10 a.m. only a few hundred immigrant rights and labor activists had gathered at Broadway and Olympic Boulevard in downtown Los Angeles to rally public support for legislation that would legalize the nation’s 11 million illegal immigrants.
“It’s really sad,” Luis Ortiz, an ice cream vendor who has been coming to the rallies for the last 15 years, said of the small turnout. “I’ve sold very little, almost nothing.”
Similar sparsely attended rallies were held in other major cities across the country.
You know your movement’s in trouble when you draw more vendors than protesters.
Source: Los Angeles Times
