Gilchrist Visits CSULB

Media Credit: Chay Chhuon

THE PRESS CONFERENCE

The Campus Coalition against Hate gathered on the lawn outside the University Student Union Beach Auditorium Tuesday to protest Minuteman project founder Jim Gilchrists’s appearance on campus.

Participants of the peaceful press conference displayed homemade signs with various messages. “We did not cross the borders, they crossed us,” read one sign. “We are all immigrants” read another. The signs were part of relaying the Campus Coalition against Hate’s message of supporting immigrant human rights.

“We are against the use of hate speech against immigrants in this country” Daniel Hernandez, La Raza member said “Racists go home!”

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AWAITING GILCHRIST
Media Credit:Rahneisha Porter

The line to enter the Beach Auditorium started to form shortly before 11a.m. By 11:15the line had extended down the student union entrance walkway. La Raza passed out red armbands symbolizing “the struggle of oppressed people, a struggle that unites us all".

THE CONFERENCE

Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, spoke Tuesday at the Beach Auditorium before a limited audience, which shrunk to half capacity following a call to walk out on the guest speaker.

Enrique Morones, founder of the San Diego County-based Border Angels humanitarian group, initiated the walkout in his opening statement. Both he and Gilchrist were invited to participate in an immigration debate forum organized by the Conservative Student Union.

"What prompted me to leave is what students had said," Morones told Daily Forty-Niner reporters. "The student body has predominantly told me that they don't want to hear [Gilchrist] speak, so they asked me to walk out.

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