Latino activists reach out to blacks

This is interesting not sure if this is unprecedented though I would wonder if there is any type of resentment in the Black community against the Latinos. This is certainly a step in the direction of looking for allies. Tribune...

The choir had just finished raising the roof inside St. Basil/Visitation Catholic Church in Englewood when a visitor, Mauro Piñeda, stepped up to the pulpit with an unexpected invitation.

March with us on May 1, Piñeda urged the mostly black parishioners, invoking Martin Luther King Jr.'s call in 1963 to "lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice."

As another Immigration march is scheduled to wend through Chicago on Thursday—now an annual rite of political passion for some and traffic frustrations for others—such pleas to African-Americans represent a new experiment in the fight for immigrant rights.

Organizers predict Thursday's march will be much smaller than the 2006 and 2007 marches that attracted hundreds of thousands of demonstrators and galvanized a movement.

Chicago police decided to allow Thursday's event to culminate in a rally at Federal Plaza, betting they would not need sprawling Grant Park to hold the marchers.

Should the turnout exceed the few thousand demonstrators that are expected, the march's endpoint could be switched to Grant Park, where the massive rallies of recent years finished, said Beatrice Cuello, a deputy police superintendent who oversees patrols.

Let's see what happens when it's time for this March. Oh and if it interests you I want to show you some not so mainstream footage of immigration marches in Chicago from back in 2006 from DavidMeade.com & LimeBlog.