1) A(n older) (white) guy who I talked to turned out to be from Pax Christi from the suburbs.
His biggest impression?
How young the crowd was.
2) The crowd was not only multi-ethnic and heavily hispanic, but a *ton* of hispanic women brought their kids along.
I saw some of the older ones crowding around a Telemundo camera and trying to get on air.
3) The movement's radicalizing towards the right to form a union and massive work stoppages.
Signs kept pushing the right to unionize, and a lot of workers were chanting not only "What do we want?" - "Fifteen dollars!", but also, "If we don't get it?" - "Shut it down!".
Very, very striking behavior that hasn't really been seen at other rallies I've been to.
4) News coverage is now pointing out SEIU funding of the campaign.
When my mother first heard of it half a year ago through papers back in Michigan, she thought it delegitimized the movement (b/c SEIU presence is muted and thus can come off as deceptive?).
With this last rally, a (U.S. citizenship-applying) (Mexican) friend said the union backing was on hispanic news coverage in a non-pejorative way and it not only didn't affect how he thought about things, but he didn't think it'd affect how people he knows would think about things either.
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