Driving to work this morning, tuned into a Spanglish latino hip hop station. They were talking about DWL. Day Without Latinos, set for May 1. The professor from UC Riverside who was speaking was pretty powerful in encouraging people to go by making refences to making history, flexing power as a united group, etc.
Got me wondering. What about companies, like where I work, where the Latinos are scattered throughout the various departments? Since I work at a software company, and we're pretty much all well-educated and professional, if they didn't show up, it probably would just send a message of annoyance, rather than "oh no, our office is paralyzed." Nobody else would really suffer, but those who participated would have one fewer vacation days set aside for real vacations. Which, in a way, has a financial cost.
