LA Weekly

My friend Coco Conn shot some great footage, photos and short videos, of Saturday's protest march against the House bill that would, among other things, make it a criminal offense to provide health care to an undocumented worker. People have been asking: Why can't we get this many people out for an anti-war march? I guess because immigrants' rights are more clear-cut. We don't know what we should do in Iraq. We do know you can't deny a significant portion of the American workforce basic dignities.

I'm becoming increasingly obsessed with how civil rights and a healthy environment are all tied up together. Grist has an excellent series going on poverty and the environment (the pertinent farmworker story is here). I've been talking to people in this city who are about to be held responsible for air pollution but don't have the resources to solve anything. And would a less beleaguered workforce object more strenuously to being exposed to pesticides and fertilitzers that make them ill? (See that Grist piece)

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