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NEWS & LETTERS, JUNE 2003
Los Angeles May Day
Los Angeles--Over 10,000 demonstrators, mostly from
south of the border, marched on May Day through downtown Los Angeles to the
Federal Building. They held a rally with a performance by a lively Mexican
musical group, climaxed by speakers addressing the crowd. Signs included “Stop
the Scapegoating,” “Legalization Now,” "Drivers License Now,”
“Health Care, Not War” and “No To U.S. War.” The event was sponsored by MIWON (Multi-ethnic Immigrant
Workers Organizing Networks) which includes Immigrant Workers Union, Garment
Workers, Korean Immigrant Workers Advocate and other organizations. Activists from progressive organizations such as Assi
workers, United Teachers Los Angeles, Bus Riders Union and others, as well as
independent individuals, supported the immigrants. Today’s intensifying immigrant bashing and deep cuts
in all levels of government social and civil programs, like health care and
education, and increasing unemployment, are tied to Bush’s wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan. Bush justifies his wars at home and abroad by the terrorist attacks
on September 11, 2001 but they also stem from today’s world economic crisis,
the worst since the Great Depression. --Basho |
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