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NEWS & LETTERS, June - July 2008
Immigrant May Day March
Over 5,000 people, mostly Latino youth, attended a May Day march and rally from the Fruitvale District to downtown Oakland, Cal., for workers' and immigrants' rights. Young Latinas led the crowd in reading demands of the Oakland Sin Fronteras coalition, including: End harassment and persecution of immigrant communities by federal agencies and local police; halt the use of "no-match" letters to intimidate worker organizing efforts; hold elected officials accountable to support immigrant rights; money for human needs and services, not militarism and war; and no more displacement from our homes and communities. One marcher said: "We need a system not based on money, but based on human dignity. These are human beings, families torn apart and we want to make them whole."
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