Children’s crusade: The next step for Houston’s Latino student protesters is to finish school and vote. Texas

“WHEN Latino students in the Houston area marched out of school this week, no pundit, lawmaker or establishment activist led the way. Instead, the thousand-plus youths who demonstrated against proposed immigration laws were marching to less obvious drumbeats ”” Spanish language TV and electronic chatter among themselves. One has to hope that these 21st century influences will now propel these students into community activism that is as effective as it is praiseworthy.

According to a story by Chronicle reporter Cynthia Leonor Garza, students here went on the move after following immigration developments on Spanish language TV, reading peers’ entries on the social Web site MySpace and communicating furiously among themselves via text message and cell phone.”

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