The L.A. Times reports on Save Our State's latest rally in "Immigration Protest in Baldwin Park Is Peaceful" from Wendy Thermos. It includes the following summary of the counter-protesters:

Next to City Hall, where about 60 protesters opposed to illegal immigration waved signs and American flags, about 600 counter-protesters sang, danced, chanted and beat drums to urge tolerance.

There's a good chance that as you read the last you thought to yourself, "there's probably a lot the LAT isn't telling me".

In addition to the singing, dancing, chanting, and general party atmosphere, here are some of the signs the Los Angeles Times failed to mention:

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printed: "Fight the Right! Fight Capitalism!" (apparently from the "Party for Socialism and Liberation") alongside an ANSWER LA sign
homemade: "Racists get out of Aztlan"
scrawled on a T-shirt: "F*ck the Minutemen; F*ck the S.O.S.; F*ck the police too"
homemade: "Stop anti-immigrant facism! All workes [sic] unite! Smash all borders."
homemade: "One world for the workers without borders"

this:
printed: "White racists this is our continent"
printed: "All Europeans are illegal on this continent since 1492"
printed, large: "Dump Racist Arnold Schwarzenegger" from the Latino Movement USA. That organization is headed by Juan Jose Gutierrez (also here). A few weeks ago Gutierrez held an anti-Arnold press conference in L.A., part of which was broadcast on KFI. Gutierrez turned the podium over to an associate who proceeded to discuss the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and how because of that treaty we couldn't prevent any Mexican from just coming to the U.S. at will. More on that press conference here.

this:
flag with Che Guevara
homemade: "...We are here to confront the racist squatters on our continent who dare to call us foreigners..."
homemade: "MEChA"

Another large banner was from a Socialist organization, which has also appeared at past protests. And, the National Lawyers Guild was there, as were the San Gabriel Valley Neighbors for Peace, last mentioned here.

If you're sensing a common thread among the protesters, and you think the L.A. Times report was basically lying to you, please send a short, polite note to: readers.rep *at* latimes.com.