It started with about two dozen Latino community leaders trading ideas in a former church in the Pilsen neighborhood, hashing out how best to protest a U.S. House bill that would crack down on illegal immigration.
Tagged: Pilsen, protest, radio“It ended three weeks later with a rally in the Loop attended by more than 100,000.
And while the massive March 10 demonstration seemed like a spontaneous outpouring to much of Chicago, the organizers had worked hard over those previous three weeks to make it happen.
They employed everything from a popular radio personality nicknamed “El Pistolero” to leaflets and e-mails to signs in shop windows promising “El Gigante Despierta” (The Giant Awakes).”
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