Crosposted From: DeMediacratic Nation

“The great slogan of the American Revolution was ‘No Taxation Without Representation. Millions of human beings today and for many years are being taxed, and they have absolutely no representation. In fact, they are being bashed every day and humiliated.” – Juan Jose Gutierrez

Leave it to CNN to misstate the event.

Meatpacking plants will shut down. Markets won’t open. Trucks won’t roll. Students will walk out of school. Millions of people will take to America’s streets in possibly unprecedented numbers.

“Millions of workers, men and women without documents and their supporters who are, in fact, legal United States citizens will heed the call to not go to work,” said Juan Jose Gutierrez, national coordinator of Latino Movement USA and one of the lead organizers of Monday’s planned boycott.

“Many hundreds of thousands of students, perhaps millions, will stay away from school and people will not shop and will not sell anything,” Gutierrez said.

Boycott organizers are demanding amnesty and the chance for the estimated 11 million to 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States to earn citizenship. Gutierrez compares their struggle with that of American colonists against British rule more than 200 years ago.

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