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We regrettably did not record this excellent panel, but Elizabeth took part in the radio show this evening and shared some insight into what this struggle looks like from the Rio Grand Valley. [listen to audio and view photos]

April 11th Radio Show - No Border Wall Special - Listen up on April 18th for a more detailed discussion of the legal dimension of the proposed Border Wall | Previous Coverage: No Border Wall Walk Opposes Fear and the Secure Fence Act | Defenders of Wildlife Border Policy Page has maps of the Texas/Mexico border Wall | Texas Observer Dispatches from the Border Wall Web Feature

LOS ANGELES April 6, 2008 The large and loud mid-Wilshire protest demonstration against Antonio "Tony" Saca, right-wing president of El Salvador, in front of the Wilshire Ebell Theater this afternoon, apparently brought about a change in the President's arrival plans. As a bevy of LAPD motorcycle officers, leading his motorcade, arrived at the box office entrance to the theater, demonstrators "went into high gear" and the bike officers all reversed their route and the motorcade was taken to a parking lot side entrance.

It appeared both L.A.P.D. and Salvadoran security forces, traveling with the president, wanted to spare him the agitated anti-ARENA scenario. An L.A.P.D. officer, who related well to a National Lawyers' Guild legal observer, commented, "They're taking him around to the side; he won't be appearing in this area." Every large vehicle, including a giant white limo, created a frenzy of chants calling the ARENA president "an assassin," "an enemy of the poor and workers," and "a Bush puppet with troops in Iraq."
From the newswire: MILITANTS, LOUD DEMO CAUSES "CHANGE OF ROUTE" FOR SALVADOR'S RIGHT-WING PRESIDENT by don w. white
Photos: Protest Against President of El Salvador by Marcus