Million Hombre March

Suddenly, there was shouting and chanting in the streets.

And there they were, thousands upon thousands of Illegal Immigrants, friends, relatives and sympathizers marching for amnesty. Songs not unlike soccer chants came up from the streets to our sixth floor window as the streamed by, so many that it seemed the buildings on broadway had lost their moorings and were slowly drifting uptown. As far as the eye could see, way past Houston to the North and City Hall down South, nothing but bodies unified in protest.

Personally, I'm not sure how this will all play out; whether it is right and feasible to simply grant immediate citizenship to the millions of illegals already living and working here in the U.S. But it was truly stirring to watch such an unchallenged moment of peaceful civil disobedience, a solidarity amongst Mexicans, Dominicans, and countless other nationalities bonded together in common cause, demanding rights from a government that has proven often reluctant to acknowledge or address the true needs of its citizenry.

Power to the People!