The March

Summer 2006

	Illustration: Mikhaela Reid ©2006

By Nancy Carlos

I walk through

the yelling people.

I feel like my ears

are gonna explode,

shaking from the

people shouting

"¡Sí se puede, sí se puede!"

	Illustration: Tom Toles/The Washington Post © 2006 King Features Syndicate "Terrifying to think what might happen if they could all vote."

I get mushed like a pancake

thrown to the side

like trash just because

I am an immigrant.

All that matters is we

fight for justice

yelling...

"Sí se puede"

"El pueblo unido, jamás será vencido"

We walk through

the shivering cold.

My feet feel

like heavy bricks.

I tell myself I will

never rest until I

get my freedom.

Nancy Carlos, 11,wrote this after she and the other students in the 5th grade at La Escuela Fratney participated with 30,000 people in an immigration rights demonstration in Milwaukee on March 23, 2006.

Summer 2006