Please support the effort to remove Mayor Maturo. Civil rights are being violated and if one persons' rights are compromised all of our rights are jeopardized. This reign of terror needs to end and the lack of response by the local and state government can not be supported. I have not seen or heard a direct response to the civil right violations by our governer or representatives. Stand for justice and we will benefit with peace.

This is just what East Haven does not need at this time. When people are pushed they start pushing back. It will just make more hard feelings.

I do not support the Mayor, or the police officers, but.................here we go again, stay INSIDE and let them march away WITHOUT an audience.

last time they marched in hartford they gang raped their own teenage girls, also on one march I am sorry it was either waterbury or hartford there was a shooting. Heard Los solitos and latrin kings, actually the big shooting was in meriden or was that danbury or bristol at the court house. Yeah I am so against violence against hispanics but obviously the commission does not bitch when there terrrorizing there own(towns) Hey Mr. Govenor how about that little birdie!!!! REALLY!!!

Everyone: OK, if this thread is going to turn into a destructive litany of personal attacks and inappropriate remarks, I will simply close it to comments. Period.

This is the most ridiculous things I ever heard. I agree with Luigi 100%. The town does not need this right now. It will make things 100% WORSE. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

This "march" will do more harm than good.... Patch allows comments and personal attacks against pro EHPD & Mayor Maturo to continue .. I'm offended by "fidel castro's" comment, he is looking for trouble. I wonder if he will be marching ? I predict this March, if it happens,it will backfire on the latino organizers of this protest.!!!

I lived in EH at the Malik Jones march if that's what your referring to..and no one was throwing anything. As a matter of fact, not many people were there at all. I also don't really care what you think or what you stand for..anyone with half a brain would realize that this is the wrong time for this march and will only do more harm than good.

1st Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

The Bill of Rights. Not just for Italians. LEARN IT. LIVE IT.

Price of a permit and a bill for a police escort should put a damper on that parade. Total cost should be approx. $2000 to $4000.

Everyone: I just posted a quick update on this story. The event is actually being organized by a newly formed East Haven-based group. I'll have more on the new group following today's press conference introducing the new interim police chief.

East Haven has raised issues about the quality of life. As in other cities, they ask for a stop to driving without permits, exploding school budgets, congregating on streets- these are not unreasonable. If East Haven was not predominately Italian, the democrat stooges that run the state would be more sympathetic to looking for a solution- but like O'Malley they just figure we are all a bunch of lower class types anyway, so why bother. Could you imagine what would happen if fifty people hung out outside the Yale University Law School with signs looking for work?

you can t get out of this thing alive you might as well get along with each other, start working on it now, christ will not tolerate this in new jerusalem[heaven]

Everyone: As most of you know, in an attempt to be as far and even-handed as possible, I have a hardline policy as far as the use of profanity on the site. So, please refrain from using it or unfortunately your comment will be deleted. So, I ask you simply make the same comment, but without the questionable word or two (hopefully it's not more than that!) Thanks.

"¡Todos somos la marcha! ¡Por la dignidad y respeto a los derechos humanos! — For dignity and respect for human rights," Oyanadel wrote in Spanish as part of his post.

Why not write it in English is it because too many of the "immigrants" would not be able to read it. Poor choice Mr. Oyanadal, you live in West Hartford how is your town doing with the non english speaking residents/ Are there any in your affluent town?
How nice that carrying American flags is called for. What a farce.

I do not support this idea. This will just create more tension. There is no need for this march.

February 25th. A day of reckoning for East Haven. Do we have a leader or a coward as our mayor? A leader would meet these marchers head on and address their grievances. Surely he's given some thought to the question "What will you do for the Latino community" and he can come up with something better than "eating tacos".

A coward will hide behind his attorney or behind his police line or will simply skip town altogether. Which will it Mayor Maturo? Are you a leader or are you a coward?

Patriot: The comment has been deleted. I actually thought I had deleted it already, as I removed several posts earlier this morning. So, thank you for bringing it to my attention.

Latino activists would help their cause better if they dropped revolutionary rhetoric- i.E. adopting a revolutionary's name as a screen name. We are not all just dumb Italians here as some of the kids at Yale suppose- we do read history. It must be fun to have a real middle class town like East Haven to experiment with -- you know when you don't have to worry about how property values are going to affect your retirement, or how school taxes are eating up your budget.

Everyone: I just posted the article about the new grassroots group organizing the march. Here is the link http://patch.com/A-qRk8.

Jule, How would one contact in this group?

Jacobo Arbenz 9:54 am on Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Here's a nugget to ponder "Patriot". Most Latino's in East Haven are American Citizens
Patriot76 - I think that those (latino,hispanic's) I talked to today, that are not being heard, ARE The American Citizens, of Latino desent. I think they need to be heard from. Not the radicals who post under the guise of dead men.

The honorable town hall tenant and his unwavering supporters need to stop blamin
the prior tenants of town hall for this here problem.Its been a brewin for a long time. Facts are we have a new group in town and lots of folks dont want em. Gallo learned
he didnt own the pd. Town hall tenant learned he didnt own town hall. Now the regular folks gots to learn they dont own the town. Then maybe we can have a little
peace round here.So let these folks march. respect their rights to do it. and iffin you
dont like it organize your own march with your own signs.we can have a march a week if you like it. first the latinos, then the irish, then the germans, then the polish,
then the blacks, then the italians, and then anybody I left out.Heck this isnt our land
anyway. My ancestors pushed the indians off it and stole their land. They came over
on the Mayflower.(that aint no joke either. really do trace our line back to it). But the
indians get even with me every time i venture up to that there foxwoods or mohegan
sun.They laugh all the ways to the bank.So maybe if folks learn to embrace this new
culture from Ecquador and learn whats they is all about they will stop bein afraid of em. Cause that is what really brews hate.....fear.

"The law is clear that the right to petition one's government for the redress of grievances may be exercised in large groups...," said Judge Johnson, "and these rights may be exercised by marching, even along public highways."
Frank M. Johnson, Jr. Federal Judge

I agree they do have a right to a peaceful march and demonstration.
My fear at this time the march is in the news that trouble makers from all over may show up and start violence against the marchers or start trouble so they can blame the Marchers.

Maybe everyone should check out --new haven register.com-- New Haven settles excessive force suit--- where is the DOJ over this--- check the date--- OCTOBER 2011.

Jacobo, we all know you are a feed for the New Haven Register, which I now refuse to buy, your a shill and working to get them news so they can sell papers. Your a trouble maker, and not the brightese bulb on the tree. As to the mayor, duhh he has been in for 2 months not 4,, if your going to say it get it stright. You sir, are so filled with hate you are trying to rub it off on the peaceful people of East Haven. To the residents of East Haven, I say stay home, let them march, let them pass buy without any one viewing, because MARCHES, do not solve problems. Peace is made by people meeting, a meeting of minds, I am far from a racist. Please cancel your Register, let them rot,, in the racks. Your feeding them with our problems that they are making rich. Wake up, Stop the media!!!!

I go back to the fact that we have a nice Korean restaurant in the center of town, we have at least 3 or more Chinese restaurants in town, most quick stop stores are owned by the people of India. I am sure that all of you who live here have have been in all of these and loved the food and the people. SOOOOOO!!! Mr. Jacobo. this shows that East Haven is fair to all. I myself would love to see a nice Latino restaurant come to town. The food is good the people polite, there is one in Branford, so stop being such a hypocrite, saying we are against Latinos. This is not true. Sad people like you might live in our town. I think you live in New Haven.

Stop the violence against Latino's? I don't believe i saw any brutally harmed arrested criminals of any decent. I believe these are ALL allegations. How many of these so called Latino's have pulled out of this ridiculous lawsuit? How many will be prosecuted for perjury ? I have been a resident of East Haven for 25 years and have NEVER heard such garbage. how many of these marchers will actually be from OUR COMMUNITY? How many non Latino residents have been pulled over in our town? I have about a half dozen times no big deal. take my ticket and go even if I thought it was ridiculous. I figured they are only doing their jobs. I have raised my children here and have had many of the cops on duty stop and encourage the kids to stay on the right path and some have also played ball with them. That's what I call good cops! I'm so tired of all the bad media coverage about east haven why not anything good? As far as "illegals" guess what our schools do..they teach the children one on one to speak our language that they cant speak in order to learn in our schools. Why because the "illegals" cant speak the AMERICAN language! Come here to our country the right way come speaking the language obtain your legal status pay your taxes and such...enough is enough! Stop all the complaining and do what is RIGHT. Everyone needs to let this blow over and carry on with their lives!

EH Resident & Ann, I agree with you both 100%. I hope to try the Korean restaurant, I heard it's very good..by an Italian EH resident business owner no less. No more Register and I am making plans for NOT in the Center of town on Sunday.

Hopefully ICE is there to round up any illegals that may be marching. I agree with Ann, but I think we should be a little clearer. East Haven is fair to all "LEGAL" citizens no matter what race.

Lisa, I too intend to try it. I love trying differant culture foods.

Los amigos, En el 25 de febrero, Dicen el alcalde y a sus partidarios racistas que todo deseamos es la Vida, la Libertad, y la búsqueda de la felicidad.

```JA

The same reason it is rude to speak another language in front of English speaking people, it just as rude to write a comment in another language.

Agreed.

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Everyone: A reminder to stay focused on the topic of the article at hand, which is the upcoming march and the new grassroots groups. If you'd like to have a discussion about another unrelated subject, please do so on the Open Topic Thread (http://patch.com/A-qYQ2), or post your topic on another article that relates to the issue you'd like to discuss. Thanks!

http://www.conservativeusa.org/immigration.htm .. Join us now" STOP ILLEGAL IIMMIGRATION ! " They are deportable criminals!, let them march now because the day after the 2012 Presidential Election, we will take our Country back

This is just getting ridiculous. Countries all over the world encourage schools to teach the english language even if they don't plan on becoming citizens. If you are choosing to come to this country you should choose to embrace the culture you're entering in which English is the first language and the language spoken in schools. I'm am so tired of people pulling the race card whenever they want to get out of something. If you're doing something illegal you should be stopped regardless of race. What good will this march do ?

Do the latino marchers who are marching against the police dept expect the police to protect them with their march??? Also, if they are so discriminated against in East Haven, why do they have a business on every corner of Main St? Why can't we not see the police reports on the results of what they found when they stopped them in their cars. So much gray matter. It looks like the latinos want to dictate their own rules and regulations. How come the New Haven Register when they showed the picture in the convenience store did not zone in on the two guys trying to take the license plates off the wall????????? Why not reside in New Haven where Manship and DeStefano will give you whatever you want.

Julie, I agree that this person Jacobo should be banned from the Patch, he spews hate that goes beyond the relms of public speech. He is creating a hate that did not exist in East Haven, he is pitting and baiting to get people to be at the march, hoping that there will be trouble. We both know where that will lead, Police blamed for doing their job. Something has to be done about him. Thanks

Who wants to take bets that this Jacobo character won't even be at the march this weekend? Anybody?? No, he/she will be as far a way as possible, hiding behind his/her fake name. Yep, that's what I predict. Guarantee I am right. What a joke.

Ms Camera and Mr.Perillo- Unfortunately, it is OK to stereotype East Haven as a city of "strip malls" where wives seduce their husbands for "chump change". Well, after all, as the AP likes to say this is an "Italian enclave" after all. Meanwhile, a young girl can die operating a lathe at Yale; the Justice Department can investigate Yale for sexual discrimination; and then the Democrat Governor of CT can allocate 250 million dollars for this same University to create business incubators. We have to understand that liberals view us as creatures from "jersey shore".

Jacobo, you really have them going. Like most R-Wing-Nuts, they fear what they don't know or refuse to understand. Your pseudonym and writing style has an exotic flair. I think, in their little minds, this puts you up there with Obama who they view as an exotic and not really one of them. Kudos to the marchers this Saturday, as for anyone who marches for peace. I hope you and I are in the crowd to witness. I seldom comment in this forum lately but I find your comments refreshing.

While I am not A fan of mayor mature and I do not believe people should be discriminated against because of their race or nationality I do think this march is inflammatory . I think the illegals should stay in newhaven where they are welcome. East haven welcomes all legal immigrants but cannot afford illegals. I resent people who do not live here but try to influence our politics and call for ourmayor to resign. Stay in new haven!!

The Justice Department has intervened on the side of the undocumented persons. The president of Yale. The Catholic Church. The Governor. The Democratic Party of CT- which runs the state. The Yale Law School, with millions of dollars behind it- tax exempt of course. Who can really believe that - except the "intellectuals" at Yale- that the this this march represents a protest against intimidation and fear. It is simply a situation where liberals expect middle class people to take a huge infusion of people into their community and pay the costs- much like a rich person expects the "help" to pay for the bus on the way to clean their house. I have never seen anything as ridiculous as groups with names like "junta" in them, or bloggers with screen names of dead Swiss revolutionaries, pretending that they are in danger or fighting fascism.

Whats really ironic in this is that father manship preaches discrimination, yet he leads a parish mainly composed of illegal aliens....why not show them the path to citizenship and make them legal? marching will only make more people hate them....

Wouldn't this march have more weight if a conviction was honored in favor of the convicted? We're in the middle of allegations, so what are we fighting for? Something to think about.
Illegal, another thing to think about.

The biggest problem here is that the Feds are just kicking back and not giving states a limb to climb on regarding illegal immigration.

Well Ann, you just proved my point. I didn't see one peaceful or constructive word in either of your responses. This reminds me so much of the sixties when a large segment of society could not accept the civil rights movement and fought it tooth and nail. I suggest you attend the march on Saturday. I'm not saying actually march, you can hide behind a tree or something and you may be surprised at what you see.

I'M SO SICK OF HEARING MINORITIES CRYING !!!!!! My comments have stated since the beginning of all of this that if you abide by the laws you will have no problem, but give ANY towns police department a problem and you just brought it on all by yourself !!! I certainly WILL NOT be anywhere near this MARCH. Isn't anyone tired of crying in this town ?? damn it gets so old and boring I mean really everyone get jobs and earn a living instead of crying racism every chance you get !!!

Why is it assumed that ANYONE in East Haven at any time with a Spanish last name, like mine perhaps, is here ILLEGALLY!!!!? My ex-husband's Grandparents came here legally, were citizens. My participation in the march, as an EH taxpayer, is to teach my children that we live in a town that should accept everyone and because it is tim to ask tor new leadership in this time of great crisis and that Mr. Maturo do the right thing and resign.

Why do these whiners keep saying anyone who talks about illegals is saying ALL Spanish, Latino and Hispanics are the topic. Are you NOT LISTENING. We don't care WHERE you came from, if you got here by any other means than a visa, passport or green card. WE WANT YOU GONE.

I think before people can rent they should be required to show papers proving they are here legally. A city in PA did that and they all moved on. Go Secure communities..

Marches are a part of our national history. Remember the marches for civil rights in the 60's. Well now history is repeating itself and it is time for the Hispanics to march for their civil rights like the black people once did. They are protected by the Constitution of our great nation.

Give it time... "time, devourer of all things"

Jacobo.well tomorrow is the march, I am sure you will find a tree to hide behind. As to our Police Officers they are well trained, and have intelligent minds, to do their job. Your day of glory is at last over, I am so sick of reading your malicious hate blogs. You need a lot of help. I said this once and will say it again. If you want peace, then meet and talk,,, Byeeeeeeeeeeeee jacobo, hope you find a job soon.

Do you believe anyone would post this. I believe it says exactly where some of these agitators are coming from
Cajones writes "Stop crying about your property values, your childrens safety and the welfare of the community as a whole. These folks have a right, a right to our schools a right to our services and a right to drive where, when and as they please. (License, we don't need no stickin license!). Furthermore we have theses rights, unencumbered by your pesty taxes and your pesty laws.".........

Viva La Socialism!!!! How about these last three words. Sounds like CHE and you all know what he was and what he did to Cuba.

Don Charles ,, you beat me to it, well said,,,,,,,,,,, Thanks for bringing up the most important part of that march. The one thing that worries me is, Yale will be handing out licenses and ss cards to the first 500, illegal and bribery wow??

Becki, don't feel sad for me feel sad for your children, teach them to talk things out. As to where your heritage came from, my heart goes out to what they suffered. However they came to the U.S. in the proper way I am sure. No one is against that>

Thanks Rose, my apoligies to Cajames.

Hey Rosie with what is going on right now in East haven, sure comical comments would be fun to read, however you have a bunch of agitators like those I mentioned and then this so called comic Cajones comes in and says that junk. Sure he is all over the park with his comments but he/she should have more sense in what he/she posts.
I read what I read and took offense. There is such a thing as being sarcastic or being a pot stirrer. in this case he/she is a pot stirrer and this is dangerous with all these out of town agitators coming into town. some people are saying that East Haven has been a town of harassment for years and this is a full out lie. Where has there been harassment, violence etc over the years. some people should realize that the feds, the juntas, the hatful politicians are all quite happy about what is going on. They needed a scapegoat and they have one.
Sorry his words are what causes problems with people who believe him/her.
No apologies to Cajones.

For those of you who don't get it...CAjones is an agitator. What he/she is doing is posting in Spanish some of the most radical statements he/she knows would rile up people. Think "dog whistle". "IT" wants you to believe that he/she is a person of Hispanic/Latino descent. Ignore it.

There is an old saying, if you are part of the problem you cannot be part of the solution. Maturo is a big part of the problem and the best thing for our town to move forward is for him to step down. He brought back Gallo after two weeks in office, let him leave with 100k of tax payers money, he did not realize what the FBI investigation was all about, and he does not realize the Latino community in East Haven is here to stay, so he doesn’t respect the fact that there are many legal immigrants that live in this town. He has put this town on the front page and on TV screens around the world day after day, he has helped this town to get a terrible image, that as long as he is in that seat East Haven will never get rid of. For the good of this town he must step down and take his whole office staff with him. The good people of this town have had enough of his arrogance.
Good by Taco Joe.

Don Charles I don't know who you are but I am neither a hater nor a sore losing politician. Just a person who is sick over what this town has become over the last few months. Thanks for the correction to my spelling.
Good BYE Taco Joe. Now I hope that is better for you to understand, Don Charles.

Okay Mike so you are not a hater etc. however Taco Joe just makes you as small as the haters. You should be sick about what is happening in your town, but to join the haters and call the Mayor a slur name is not needed.
Sure he was led down the path by a reporter from the news channel, sure he was stupid to answer as he did. Many people have made dumb comments when they shouldn't have yet are not continually ostracized for their comments as your mayor.
Every day the tv , radio and the Ragister has an article or a comment about East Haven, they love what is going on, if they spent as much time on the real problems like the politicians in Hartford and DC then we would all be more informed as to what is rally happening with our state and country.

dear mike fink, april welcomed illegals in our town for years...this is why we are in this situation today, she was arrested by interferring with police and now her secretary is crying that her rights were violated....really...what a loser go enter another country illegally and see if you survive or better yet go to another country and have a unity march...NOT u will be killed...

If new haven wants to be a safehaven for illegals then let them live there, we are getting the overflow from new haven...

What a joke this Mayor is,
Public works crew's our in to set up for the so called March.$$$$$$$$$$$$
All the EHPD on duty$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
News People in Town for more bad press,
All this because he thought it was a joke that our Town was in TROUBLE
Now we pay the price.
Hay Mayor what happend to the spending freeze? not today Mr Mayor.
If you took it serous the issues we have with the EHPD and kept your mouth shut like maybe say NO COMMENT at this time. Then there would be no March today!.

hey captain the immigration reform pulled a permit for this march and they cant be denied because of their illegal rights so who is going to protect us from this nonsense...u and your gang...i dont agree with this march at all but our pd is protecting us like they have always done.....lets talk spending freeze 17% increase in my taxes thanks april to supporting illegals and this pd issue went into aprils term not joe..

this march violates my right as an american citizen...anyone know a good lawyer because i cant get to mcdonalds for lunch today...

why wouldn't he bring gallo back he was being paid to sit home and we were paying a sit in cheif...its called to save money...i am a hater of illegal immigrants it is called illegal for a reason captain they are breaking the law....wake up

illegal immigrants have more rights than us american citizens and i am sick of it

Poor Karen Did i say anything about illegal or legal?
No i did not.
Its an issue in this Country and East Haven will not solve it.
So what your telling me if someone who may not talk or look like you is illegal.
You hate it so much but you seem to live with the fact that as long as its not me then its bad for the Country.
I am sure you go out to eat at time's well do your self a favor next time your eatting that nice meal out go into the Kitchen and Check ID, Check ID when your trash is picked up, check when your grass is being cut or when your car is washed..
Its about greed my friend and someone who will exploit hard working Men and Woman and not care how they got to this Country.
So do not blame everyone you see and put a label on them.
They are People like us., just looking for a better life.
But then i can be wrong and you may be the one to solve the problem.
Think hard myfriend if April was the Mayor today would there be a March?

Captain Blood, You are a traitor to your Town & Country. Why would you keep supporting the criminals that keep entering our Country illegally ? Why would you continue to blame the America citizens that are now fed up with these people that will never accept the laws of our land ?? Why do you support these illegals that refuse to assimulate to our culture ? Maybe, it is you & your friends that are the Town's biggest problem. Maybe you can start blaming George W Bush, just saying.!

What did Matt Lyons mean when he spoke of the American flag being on the ground?
Was this done at the march of the latino's and was it on purpose?

I was watching the live feed on nhregister.com. They had a banner with many countries flags including the US. This banner was laid on the ground in the center of the rally in the park. That is a federal offense to deface the flag.

Plus people were letting their kids walk on the banner.

What a sad person the PATRIOT, I just tell it like it is.
Low wages my friend thats how it all starts.
I only support the ones who are being used.
I have an idea lets deport anyone who hires someone who is not here Legally.
See how fast the problem may start to go away.

repent ye sinners your churches preach watered down prosperity, no hellfire and brimstone churches there,hard work and talent do not get you to the mansion above. selah

I especially love the sign "we are all immigrants". Yes, that is true, only most of us, or our families, came here LEGALLY, the right way. That is the BIG difference, that is the problem, and that is why discrimination exists. Do it the right way, and there is no problem.

Matt that was to be expected. Look at any rally of ILLEGALS and you will see the flags of other countries including Hammer and Sickle and the red star. It just goes to show you what is thought of by these leaches, yes leaches are what the illegals are. There is no one who can defend their illegality although many try. If they would learn the language and take the tests and become citizens then they would be entitled to what the citizens of the USA get and have, I doubt if it will come to this since the bleeding hearts and those that feel they are good for our nation want them here so they can change the tide of power.