Hello fellow iReporters,

I just wanted to say thank you for your patience through the BastaDobbs petition action. I read your comments and know that this action disrupted your community for a few days.  I do think that disruption can be a good thing, breaking us out of our everyday mindsets and introducing us to ideas and stories that might otherwise go unnoticed. I hope that the growing chorus of voices who were saying ¡basta! (enough) to Lou Dobbs' vilification of Latino and immigrant communities was one of those stories.

CNN never reported on the BastaDobbs campaign even though they sent cameras to multiple public protests across the country that we organized.  They even edited a BastaDobbs representative who made critical remarks about Dobbs on Anderson Cooper's show.  So with our voice shut out of their television network, we decided to bring the story here, to iReports, so that the voices of more than 100,000 people making a stand against one of the most powerful news networks in the world would be heard.  Because you are the people who watch the stream of iReports most closely, fortunately or unfortunately, you heard our story the loudest.

To set the record straight, it was not CNN who put these iReports up, and in fact I am still surprised and pleased that the admins let me and others speak our minds.  I think this is a true testament to the egalitarian nature of this site and platform.  I also hope that this story will inspire you all to speak out on changes you wish to see in the world. 

This will be the last post from iBastadobbs for a while. But I am inspired by this community's hard work and even your efforts to silence our voice when you thought it was intolerable.  We all have the right to speak our minds, Lou Dobbs, iBastaDobbs and you.  So keep doing the important work you do!

iBastaDobbs