the trouble with this poll was that it had but few choices.There was no room for creativity. I myself feel we should use "workers without visas, for that is what we are. Workers. With. No. Visas. I guess NPR wanted to appear progressive but it failed. It reminded me of the 1960s when whites held their own debates on what to call african-americans: black or negro or negro-american but without supporting theirfight for integration "becaus"e the time is not right. Same thing here: the guilty anglo media knows it reports slanted stuff against the immigrant community and it wants to ingratiate itself with the Left. i suggest to whoever handles this list serv to refer stuff like this if it comes up again to the recycle bin. It matters not what others call us if we don't have our rights. The American Indian nations almost to a tribe referred to themselves as The People. That is what we are too, the people. La Raza. The People Who Are Not Allowed To Work. As Bob Marley might add While They are Belly-ful and We're Hungry. Tsk.
--- On Fri, 9/5/08, Martinez, Alfredo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Martinez, Alfredo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: <ChicagoMayDay> Re: Fwd: "Undocumented" or "illegal"? Take the poll! To: [email protected] Date: Friday, September 5, 2008, 2:43 PM The term for these citizens of other countries is "Miss Documented" because they doe have some type of documents, what they lack is USA documents. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J. Mujica Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 1:51 PM To: ChicagoMayDay Subject: <ChicagoMayDay> Re: Fwd: "Undocumented" or "illegal"? Take the poll! Our poll "Undocumented or Illegal?" generated a lopsided response. The poll asked how Chicago Public Radio should refer to U.S. residents who lack proper papers to be in the country. Almost 90 percent of the 2,004 votes showed a preference for "illegal alien" instead of either "illegal immigrant" or "undocumented immigrant." The question now is why. We explore that question in a new blog section, Immigration Poll Ends in Knockout (http://apps.wbez.org/blog/? p=516#more-516). The section starts with views from the Illinois Minuteman Project's Rosanna Pulido and the Center for New Community's Eric Ward. I think you'll want to see what they say. And, as always, we welcome your comments. Thanks. Chip Mitchells, Chicago Public Radio. ************************ The question is not why... it did happen because while some friends and activists were discussing whether the term it should be "unwanted", or "without visas" and so on, the minuteman were voting.... Mujica --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Internet group address: http://groups.google.com/group/ChicagoMayDay To send e-mail: [email protected] To unsuscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
