IMMIGRATION PROTESTS

April 10th, 2006

110 photographer/writer Hector Morenco Acuna documented the first protests at Catalina High School last week. You can view his photographs here.

Today the rallies continued at Armory Park. A counter-protestor burned the Mexican flag, causing an uproar from the pro-immigration marchers. A crowd rushed onto 6th Avenue, then Scott, where a conflict broke out. A police officer maced two young women who were immediately rushed by photographers. They doused themselves in water, gagging and choking in front of the cameras.

Up above, a helicopter circled downtown.
I imagined the sight of it:
    a multi-colored sea of people
    splashing into itself
    like an organic-rainbow

I looked up again and there was a multi-colored neon blimp, also circling downtown.
It was a pretty distraction from the chaos below.

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