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All American Canal demonstration

Date: 11/17/2009 Album ID: 891471

Photos by Eric Miller

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From Left: John Carlos Frey and John Hunter pull themselves across a string of buoys that they had secured in the All American Canal Tuesday afternoon at the Imperial Valley Irrigation District Drop 3 Hydroelectric Plant 30 miles east of El Centro. Eric Miller Photo Miller/Tuesday, November 17, 2009

A lone buoy floats on the surface of the All American Canal near the Imperial Valley Irrigation District Drop 3 Hydroelectric Plant 30 miles east of El Centro as the name of Stephani Martinez’s late husband Sergio Contreras who drown only a few miles down the canal, is strung to several other buoys with different names of those lost to the dangerous canal. Eric Miller Photo Miller/Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Stephani Martinez tears up as she remembers her late husband Sergio Contreras who drown in the All American Canal in February as she holds a paper cross bearing his name while Laura Hunter embraces her, as they are present during a demonstration at the All American Canal Drop 3 Hydroelectric Plant 30 miles east of El Centro Tuesday afternoon to show the safety features they would like the Imperial Irrigation District to approve to prevent future drowning. Eric Miller Photo Miller/Tuesday, November 17, 2009

From Left: John Hunter secures a cable with a series of buoys attached as John Carlos Frey adds tension to the cable as they protest the lack of safety in the canal Tuesday afternoon at the Imperial Irrigation District Drop 3 Hydroelectric Plant 30 miles east of El Centro. Eric Miller Photo Miller/Tuesday, November 17, 2009

John Carlos Frey director of “800 Mile Wall” explains his reasons for diving into the All American Canal to secure a buoy system in the event that someone were to fall in and why he thinks the Imperial Irrigation District is so hesitant to secure any safety features, while he stands in front of the canal near Hydroelectric plant at Drop 3 about 30 miles from El Centro Tuesday afternoon. Eric Miller PhotoMiller/Tuesday, November 17, 2009

From Left: John Carlos Frey is written a citation for diving into the All American Canal from a sheriff's deputy while John Hunter waits on the hood of the sheriff’s vehicle to be issued his citation after they strung a series of buoys across the All American Canal Tuesday afternoon near Hydroelectric Plant at Drop 3 about 30 mile east of El Centro to show the Imperial Irrigation District the safety measures needed to be taken to prevent future drowning in the canal. Eric Miller Photo Miller/Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Vice president of the IID Anthony Sanchez defends that the All American Canal is a federal government canal and the IID is not solely responsible for decisions made involving it, as he respond to accusations presented at the IID board meeting Tuesday afternoon in El Centro. Eric Miller Photo Miller/Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Decorative crosses with Spanish phrases, such at “por que” are held by local supporters at an IID board meeting Tuesday afternoon as they demand better safety precautions be taken to decrease the number of drownings every year by immigrants and local citizens in the All American Canal. Eric Miller Photo Miller/Tuesday, November 17, 2009

From Left: Laura Hunter reaches to embrace Stephani Martinez who carries a paper cross that was taped to a buoy, the cross bearing the name of her late husband who drown in the All American Canal was one of several that was strung across the canal Tuesday afternoon near Drop 3 of the IID Hydroelectric Plant to show the Imperial Irrigation District the safety features needed in the canal to prevent future deaths. Eric Miller Photo Miller/Tuesday, November 17, 2009

John Carlos Frey director of “800 Mile Wall” swims a rope across the All American Canal near Drop 3 of the Imperial Irrigation District Hydroelectric Plant 30 miles east of El Centro Tuesday afternoon as he and other activists attempt to secure a buoy system to show the Imperial Irrigation District how simple and necessary the buoys are to save lives of immigrants and locals that fall into the canal. Eric Miller Photo Miller/Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Stephani Martinez tells her husbands story to IID board members Tuesday afternoon at the El Centro IID building on Broadway in El Centro while Laura Hunter holds a picture of Stephani’s late husband Sergio Contreras, an undocumented immigrant that drown crossing the All American Canal. Eric Miller Photo Miller/Tuesday, November 17, 2009

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