Just try it - pick your own damn lettuce some time

Hooray for the boycotters. To anyone who can simultaneously say "We don't want no illegal immigrants!" and "It's wrong for them to boycott a day of work!" - Well, I just don't understand how your head doesn't explode from such incompatible, illogical and hypocritical beliefs. If we really don't need illegal immigrants, then their little boycott was of no consequence, right? Or, if you were actually inconvenienced by their absence today, then perhaps you'd better stop calling these people criminal trash. You can't have it both ways.

For six years I had the privilege of advocating on behalf of the health care rights of migrant farmworkers. It's unbelievable, the work that these adults and children do day after day, year after year, so we can eat bell peppers all year round. It's literally backbreaking. Children have special school hours so they can work in the fields from 3 am to mid-day and then go to school, and then do their homework. Farm work is exempt from virtually every single labor protection enjoyed by the rest of us. Like, say, the right not to be sprayed with toxic chemicals by a cropduster.

And I'm supposed to believe that the presence of these hard-working, tax-paying folks is what's really criminal about this situation? A cheesy Spanish version of the national anthem is what's offensive here?

Kudos to everyone who marched today, despite fear of reprisals, and to all the employers who supported their workers in taking the day off. Si, se puede! Happy May Day, everyone.