General Strikes in the Last 20 Years

In December of 2005 the publicans passed in the house of representatives HR 4 4 3 7 also known as the border protection anti-terrorism and illegal immigration control act of 2005. The bill would transform almost every person the United States into either undocumented violators police enforcers or classify them as criminally complicit for assisting someone that was undocumented. In march of 2006 marches and more than half a million people overwhelmed the centers of major cities like los angeles chicago new york and dallas halting business. There were dozens of student walkouts and high schools around the country as well as a nationwide immigrant general strike called for on mayday by hundreds of thousands perhaps millions of workers including truck drivers who shut