Odd #DNC Bedfellows: Immigration, #Occupy, Anti-Abortion Protesters

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Odd #DNC Bedfellows: Immigration, #Occupy, Anti-Abortion Protesters http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/05/odd-dnc-bedfellows-immigration-occupy-anti-abortion-protesters.html via @thedailybeast #ows

More interesting are the not-so-predictable folks popping up to vent their outrage. People like, say, immigrants’ rights activists, whom you might expect to feel a certain kinship with the party that, at least relatively speaking, isn’t quite so eager to deport them.

But there they were on Tuesday afternoon, a hearty band of undocumented workers kneeling in the middle of a central intersection, surrounded by a gaggle of gawkers and several dozen heavily armed police officers dispatched to manage the spectacle.

Upset over the Obama administration’s deportation policy, the workers knelt silently atop a brightly colored banner proclaiming “No papers, no fear.” A collection of supporters stood nearby waving signs and chanting (in Spanish) “Hold on” and “You are not alone.”