Photos from today's protest in Chicago

[Tuesday_Morning]

Crowd estimated at 350,000 -500,000.

Check it out:

http://flickr.com/photos/search/tags:immigration%2Cchicago/tagmode:all/

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Nice turn-out.

[Bluzmann57]

2. Just saw a "special report" on WGN TV

And they were reporting the final turnout was around 400,000. Great job Chicago. Let the groundswell begin.

[Tuesday_Morning]

3. Chicago Tribune has email updates from reporters at the protest

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/custom/newsroom/chi-060501immigration-rally-snapshots,0,4426951.story?page=1&coll=chi-homepagepromo440-fea

For instance:

2:58 p.m. On the way to Grant Park, the dominant chant was "si se puede" (yes, it can be done). No matter their apparent background, participants raised the Spanish chant to support their Latino comrades.

Serigne Diop, 40, led a group of Mexicans in the chant. "I studied Spanish in college," the Senegalese immigrant said with a smile.

Brian Smith and Zack Wicks, both 15-year-old students from Francis Parker School, turned "si se puede" into a modified rap.

A busload of Koreans and Filipinos riding to the march broke into the chant, banging a traditional Korean cymbal-like instrument for punctuation.

And Roger Brewin, a British immigrant, joined in the chant as he marched through the Loop. "I am an immigrant. These are my people," he explained.

pretty cool

[malaise]

4. What I loved about the Chicago protest

is the number of immigrants and their descendants - Irish, Polish, West Indian, etc. who joined the Latinos.

[Rex_Goodheart]

5. Hmmmm....

I find waving the Mexican flag as part of that demonstration an insult to Americans. I had hoped not to see them.

Sorry if that's not popular on this board.

[Pastiche423]

6. I am an American

w/my ancestors going back at least until the 1860's.

I am not insulted.

[chat_noir]

7. "We also have a dream"