This past May around 50 anti-immigrant activists from the “Save Our State” organization held a protest in Baldwin Park, California, against the “invasion of the United States by illegal immigrants.” The xenophobes were met by an angry crowd of nearly 1000 Chicanos, Latinos, and their allies, who denounced SOS as a racist organization bent on dividing the people of California. It comes as a surprise then that ultra-nationalists have called for a second demonstration in Baldwin Park, this one scheduled for Saturday, June 25th., at the corner of Pacific & Downing (at the Metrolink Rail Station). The SOS website published the call for the protest, stating that “Americans are tired of the unchecked third world invasion of illegal aliens. They are tired of watching their great American culture disappear, only to watch it be replaced by other cultures that are inferior and contradictory to everything this country was built upon.” It’s tiring to have to remind such people that places like Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Barbara and San Francisco were not founded or named by the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock - or that the people who first inhabited these places had brown skin. It is an outrage when the racists of SOS publicly proclaim on their website “Make no mistake, our opponents are savages.” European invaders dehumanized the red nations who lived in the Americas by calling them “savages”, and what followed next was genocide. While the reactionaries of SOS insist they are not racists, the use of the word “savages” in describing their brown skinned opponents exposes their actual feelings. Meanwhile the Minuteman vigilante group that set up armed patrols at the US/Arizona border is moving its operations to California. On May 25th., Minuteman project founder Jim Gilchrist spoke at a meeting of his followers in Garden Grove, Califas. His address to some 200 followers was the target of around 300 demonstrators who condemned the group for its racism. During the protest a Minuteman supporter drove his car through the picket line, hitting 8 people, two of which were taken away in an ambulance. The driver was arrested but later all charges against him were dropped. The Minuteman hope to begin patrolling the California/Mexico border this summer.