Walkout is a 2006

2006 in film

- Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2006...

 HBO

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 film

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 based on a true story of the 1968 East L.A. walkouts

East L.A. walkouts

The East Los Angeles Walkouts or Chicano Blowouts were a series of 1968 protests against unequal conditions in Los Angeles Unified School District high schools. The first protest took place on March 6...

. It premiered March 18, 2006 on HBO. Starring Alexa Vega

Alexa Vega

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, Efren Ramirez

Efren Ramirez

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 and Michael Peña

Michael Peña

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, the film was directed by Edward James Olmos

Edward James Olmos

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. Moctezuma Esparza, one of the students who was involved in the walkouts, was the film's executive producer and many of the actors playing parents in the film were also protesters.

A month after the film first aired, 2,500 Colorado students initiated a walkout of Denver schools to protest H.R. 4437

H.R. 4437

The Border Protection, Anti-terrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005 was a bill in the 109th United States Congress. It was passed by the United States House of Representatives on December 16, 2005 by a vote of 239 to 182 , but did not pass the Senate...

, known as the "Sensenbrenner Bill." This House

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 bill would have made it a felony

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 (rather than a misdemeanor

Misdemeanor

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) to be in the US illegally.