Could this be the year of the caravan?
Among the most notable was the one from Houston, Texas to Tucson, Ariz., to protest the banning of Tucson’s Mexican-American Studies program.
There are at least two national moving protests on how the federal government deals with undocumented immigrants. The Campaign for an American DREAM walk is in the Midwest and on its way to Washington D.C.
We just reported on the start of another protest campaign, dubbed 'No Papers, No Fear', that will ride through Southern states that have passed restrictive immigration laws on the way to the Democratic National Convention in North Carolina.
And yet a third caravan is getting ready to launch from San Diego on August 12. This one is going to be led by Javier Sicilia, a Mexican poet who has challenged the Mexican government’s anti-drug efforts after his son became a casualty in the ongoing drug war.
They plan to travel along the entire U.S.-Mexico border, then head north to Chicago, New York City and finish in Washington, D.C.
Will it work? Probably not.
These roving protests tend to get some attention when they begin and at whatever town they happen to stop in. Then, they tend to leave the public's conscience.
But if it can draw sizable crowds to a city with influence makers (see The Tea Party in Washington D.C. and the Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York City), then maybe, just maybe, something may come from their extensive travels.
