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AN ANTONIO, Texas - The Southwest Workers Union's living quarters, called "Solidarity House," was sprayed with 15 rounds of semi-automatic rifle fire early Sunday, July 11. A 23-year-old man, James Domingue, was severely injured. His pelvis was shattered by bullets. He remains in critical condition in the hospital.

Six other summer interns fortunately escaped the bullets because they were sitting and eating below the path of gunfire. A member of the group said that if it had been 5 minutes earlier they would have been standing and everyone would have been hit.

Twenty-five shell casings were found in the street by members of the organization and police.

A vigil for the victim was held on Monday at SWU headquarters.

Genaro Rendon, director of the group, said the shooting was not a mistake: "It feels like an attack," he said.

"We think it is related to our beliefs and what we stand for," said one of the group's organizers.

The Southwest Workers Union is a grassroots organization that works for social change from the "bottom up." It recently organized a "Liberation Caravan" of five vans and at least 30 Texans who drove through the night to Arizona to support a May 29 demonstration against the anti-immigrant law SB 1070 passed by the Arizona Legislature. They left at 3 a.m. from the SWU building here to join in the protest against the law, which opponents say would profile people of color and was meant to make life so miserable that immigrants would leave the U.S..

The SWU was started in 1988 in Hondo, Texas, as a community organization to empower workers, poor people and people of color, women and youth to speak out for themselves. They initially organized public school workers for whom the state of Texas denied collective bargaining rights. They organized in other districts for better wages and dignity in the workplace. They have built leadership in the Mexican communities and in the border areas and have developed leadership to empower youth with summer internship programs of which James Domingue was a participant.

SWU's work along the border has focused on the problems resulting from unfair trade agreements such as NAFTA that have driven Mexicans off their land and produced a mass migration of people to the U.S. The organization has fought against the increased militarization of the border and for fair immigration laws. They helped organize 70,000 people in a march in 2005 for immigrant rights.

Recently they have unified with other groups such as Fuerza Unida, which was formed by the women laid off when the Levi jeans plant was moved to Mexico. They have joined with Native Americans from the Indigenous Peoples Council to speak out against the Arizona's unfair and maybe unconstitutional law and to prevent a copycat law in Texas when the Legislature resumes in January,2011.

The fact that this shooting took place at this hub of progressive activity and immigrant struggle when many elected officials and hate groups are trying to outdo each other with immigrant bashing is seen as a dangerous sign.

Activists here say the police and mayor will have to do a thorough investigation of the shooting, and protect the community.

Genaro Rendon, director of the group, said the shooting was not a mistake: "It feels like an attack," he said

citdog wrote:i wonder if this was perpetrated by "armed rednecks" or if one of these "ese's" owed a drug dealer some money. nothing in the story points to anyone as a suspect. nice try lubeboy. but as usual a complete

FAIL

native wrote:

citdog wrote:i wonder if this was perpetrated by "armed rednecks" or if one of these "ese's" owed a drug dealer some money. nothing in the story points to anyone as a suspect. nice try lubeboy. but as usual a complete

FAIL

BDKJMU wrote:

native wrote:

Yep

Baldy wrote:

BDKJMU wrote:
Yep

Lubeboy???

Looks like jellybelly took a page out of dback's "Knee-Jerk Reactionary Owners Manual".

dbackjon wrote:

Baldy wrote: Lubeboy???

Looks like jellybelly took a page out of dback's "Knee-Jerk Reactionary Owners Manual".

Usual dose of ignorance from the triple-headed conk know-nothings

If this had been an attack on say, a Tea Bagger headquarter, Fox would be running this 24-7, you all would be trumpeting it as another reason to go after immigrants

dbackjon wrote:

Baldy wrote: Lubeboy???

Looks like jellybelly took a page out of dback's "Knee-Jerk Reactionary Owners Manual".

Usual dose of ignorance from the triple-headed conk know-nothings

If this had been an attack on say, a Tea Bagger headquarter, Fox would be running this 24-7, you all would be trumpeting it as another reason to go after immigrants

Col Hogan wrote:
Like the MSM is running the story about the Obama DOJ and the NBPP...


But that's not important enough to run...is it??????

Chizzang wrote:Usually with this kind of stuff one need only apply occam's razor...

Skjellyfetti wrote:

AN ANTONIO, Texas - The Southwest Workers Union's living quarters, called "Solidarity House," was sprayed with 15 rounds of semi-automatic rifle fire early Sunday, July 11. A 23-year-old man, James Domingue, was severely injured. His pelvis was shattered by bullets. He remains in critical condition in the hospital.

Six other summer interns fortunately escaped the bullets because they were sitting and eating below the path of gunfire. A member of the group said that if it had been 5 minutes earlier they would have been standing and everyone would have been hit.

Twenty-five shell casings were found in the street by members of the organization and police.

A vigil for the victim was held on Monday at SWU headquarters.

Genaro Rendon, director of the group, said the shooting was not a mistake: "It feels like an attack," he said.

"We think it is related to our beliefs and what we stand for," said one of the group's organizers.

The Southwest Workers Union is a grassroots organization that works for social change from the "bottom up." It recently organized a "Liberation Caravan" of five vans and at least 30 Texans who drove through the night to Arizona to support a May 29 demonstration against the anti-immigrant law SB 1070 passed by the Arizona Legislature. They left at 3 a.m. from the SWU building here to join in the protest against the law, which opponents say would profile people of color and was meant to make life so miserable that immigrants would leave the U.S..

The SWU was started in 1988 in Hondo, Texas, as a community organization to empower workers, poor people and people of color, women and youth to speak out for themselves. They initially organized public school workers for whom the state of Texas denied collective bargaining rights. They organized in other districts for better wages and dignity in the workplace. They have built leadership in the Mexican communities and in the border areas and have developed leadership to empower youth with summer internship programs of which James Domingue was a participant.

SWU's work along the border has focused on the problems resulting from unfair trade agreements such as NAFTA that have driven Mexicans off their land and produced a mass migration of people to the U.S. The organization has fought against the increased militarization of the border and for fair immigration laws. They helped organize 70,000 people in a march in 2005 for immigrant rights.

Recently they have unified with other groups such as Fuerza Unida, which was formed by the women laid off when the Levi jeans plant was moved to Mexico. They have joined with Native Americans from the Indigenous Peoples Council to speak out against the Arizona's unfair and maybe unconstitutional law and to prevent a copycat law in Texas when the Legislature resumes in January,2011.

The fact that this shooting took place at this hub of progressive activity and immigrant struggle when many elected officials and hate groups are trying to outdo each other with immigrant bashing is seen as a dangerous sign.

Activists here say the police and mayor will have to do a thorough investigation of the shooting, and protect the community.

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dbackjon wrote:

Baldy wrote: Lubeboy???

Looks like jellybelly took a page out of dback's "Knee-Jerk Reactionary Owners Manual".

Usual dose of ignorance from the triple-headed conk know-nothings

If this had been an attack on say, a Tea Bagger headquarter, Fox would be running this 24-7, you all would be trumpeting it as another reason to go after immigrants

CID1990 wrote:

Chizzang wrote:Usually with this kind of stuff one need only apply occam's razor...

I always applied it in police work. In this situation it tells me that this was a gang, probably a Hispanic one (irony of ironies).

But your razor might be different from mine.

If it had been armed rednecks... (a leap that even the liberal source wasn't willing to make but SK jumped right on in....) everyone in the house would be dead with a double tap to the head.

I-580 gunman targeted ACLU, Tides Foundation
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

OAKLAND, CA (KGO) -- The Tuolumne County man accused of shooting at CHP officers on Interstate 580 in Oakland over the weekend was headed to o San Francisc to kill people at the ACLU and the Tides non-profit organization.

The ACLU offices are in the Financial District and the Tides Foundation has offices in the Presidio.

He made his first court appearance Tuesday.

Byron Williams, 45, had a 2 p.m. arraignment in Oakland. Police say he is charged with attempted murder for his role in the Sunday morning shootout that closed the freeway for most of the day.

Williams was shot multiple times by police, but was wearing a bullet proof vest and survived. He was recently released from a hospital and is expected to use a wheelchair to attend his court appearance, according to a spokesman for the Alameda County Sheriff's Department.

Authorities say Williams was armed with a number of high-powered weapons and ammunition during the shootout, which lasted 15 minutes. He and officers fired more than 150 rounds at each other.

Williams' mother told reporters the two-strike felon was angry with left-wing politicians.

Skjellyfetti wrote:Oops. Wrong article.

I-580 gunman targeted ACLU, Tides Foundation
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

OAKLAND, CA (KGO) -- The Tuolumne County man accused of shooting at CHP officers on Interstate 580 in Oakland over the weekend was headed to o San Francisc to kill people at the ACLU and the Tides non-profit organization.

The ACLU offices are in the Financial District and the Tides Foundation has offices in the Presidio.

He made his first court appearance Tuesday.

Byron Williams, 45, had a 2 p.m. arraignment in Oakland. Police say he is charged with attempted murder for his role in the Sunday morning shootout that closed the freeway for most of the day.

Williams was shot multiple times by police, but was wearing a bullet proof vest and survived. He was recently released from a hospital and is expected to use a wheelchair to attend his court appearance, according to a spokesman for the Alameda County Sheriff's Department.

Authorities say Williams was armed with a number of high-powered weapons and ammunition during the shootout, which lasted 15 minutes. He and officers fired more than 150 rounds at each other.

Williams' mother told reporters the two-strike felon was angry with left-wing politicians.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?sectio ... id=7565389" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

citdog wrote:

dbackjon wrote:

Usual dose of ignorance from the triple-headed conk know-nothings

If this had been an attack on say, a Tea Bagger headquarter, Fox would be running this 24-7, you all would be trumpeting it as another reason to go after immigrants

once we deport the illegals we're coming after the "bundles of sticks" next. then and only then the Jews. I'll be rounding up and deporting myself in an act of pure unadulterated conservative masturbation.

death dealer wrote:

Skjellyfetti wrote:




http://peoplesworld.org/progressive-cen ... ne-gunned/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Why do you hate America?




Seriously though, it's gang related. Just makes more sense. But way to go with the stereotypical jump to conclusion. Maybe you should get yourself one of these.


You can share it with the other extremist nutjobs on this board.