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Up to 1 million in L.A.
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BY NAOMI CRAINE
LOS ANGELES—Cheers and chants rang through this city from morning until well into the evening May 1, as up to a million people marched to oppose anti-immigrant legislation and demand legal status for undocumented workers.
Police estimated a midday downtown march to City Hall at 250,000, and said more than 400,000 marched four miles down Wilshire Boulevard, west of the city center, later in the day. Organizers said both actions were larger, up to a million. Smaller demonstrations also took place throughout the metropolitan area. Click to read rest of article.
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AP/Nick Ut (top); Militant/Rollande Girard (bottom)
Top: Stores closed for May Day boycott on Olvera Street in downtown Los Angeles, where half a million protested. Bottom: Contingent of UNITE HERE union at May 1 march of 400,000 in Chicago, where May Day started in 1886 with fight for eight-hour day.
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400,000 in Chicago
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BY ERNEST MAILHOT
AND ROLLANDE GIRARD
CHICAGO—A throng of protesters demanding legalization of immigrants poured into the downtown area here May 1. Whistles and chants of Sí se puede (Yes we can) bounced off skyscrapers. They could be heard blocks away as the march proceeded to Grant Park. After the front of the march reached the rally site demonstrators kept coming for another five hours. Twenty-six workers at the IFCO pallet company, originally from Mexico, who were arrested in an immigration raid here April 19 and face deportation charges, were at the head of the march. Click to read rest of article.
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