Thursday, October 5, 2006

Follow-up: Minutemen lecture runs amok

Yesterday we mentioned that the Jim Gilchrest- founder of anti-immigrant group the Minutemen- was supposed to lecture at New York’s Columbia University. Gilchrist never got the opportunity to give his lecture as a group of angry students mobbed the stage and fought with Minutemen supporters. According to the Columbia Spectator some of those students may have been part of the Chicano Caucus, who organized a peaceful protest attended by about 200 demonstrators outside the auditorium where Gilchrist was supposed to speak.

Links- Gothamist (blog), The Latin Americanist (blog), Columbia (University) Spectator

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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous2:14 AM

    How incredibly civil on the part of the pro-illegal immigration folks...

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  2. Erwin C.11:00 AM

    Don't forget the old cliche: the rotten apple spoils the barrel.

    Much like it would be inaccurate to label Gilchrist as the entire anti-immigrant movement so would labelling a small group of ruffians as "the pro-illegal immigration folks."

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