Afterthoughts

So Mrs. Drang and I both felt a bit guilty about "ass-you-me-ing" that an Immigrant's Rights Rally/March meant "Mexicans"--except that all of the photos show nothing but Mexican flags. (There were US flags at other events that day, but photos I've seen of the immigrants' rights' rallies only showed Eagles on Cacti. Selective editing?)

So, does "immigrant"="Mexican"?

Are immigrants of other ethnic/national backgrounds and origins entitled to the same rights?

Do the people organizing these things even think about other ethnic groups?

Or are all the other immigrants simply at work?

The same day, here in Seattle, there were also an "Anti-war walkout" by longshoremen, which local port officials said

was not unexpected because many workers celebrate International Workers' Day on May 1.
Officials of the Pacific Maritime Association, which employs longshore workers, called the work stoppage an illegal strike.

Meanwhile, in the state capital:

In Olympia, anti-war and immigration rights demonstrators broke windows in a pair of downtown banks and left graffiti in some of the marble halls at the domed Legislative Building, the state Capitol. Six people were arrested, and more than two dozen gathered outside City Hall.

When Mrs. Drang first told me about being cautioned to expect her bus ride to be longer on Thursday, it completely escaped me that she was talking about May 1st, May Day, Parade in Red Square Day.

Commie Day. In what I am told Franklin D. Roosevelt referred to as "The Soviet of Seattle."

Quotes above are from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer article describing the festivities.