Vol. 73/No. 19      May 18, 2009

Several dozen workers from the day laborers center marched in a contingent to Dolores Park. The Drill Team of Local 10 of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union participated along with workers from the Service Employees International Union, Carpenters Local 22, and other unions. Following a rally in the park, some 1,500 protesters set off through a light rain to the Civic Center.

About 1,000 people joined the May Day march in San Jose, including student contingents from Santa Clara University, Foothill and De Anza community colleges, San Jose State University, Stanford, and area high schools.

In Watsonville, 80 people protested on May Day outside a branch of Wells Fargo Bank, which organizers said has a stake in the company that builds prisons that house immigrants. Located in the Salinas Valley, Watsonville has been a center of farm worker struggles in years past. A banner carried by members of the student group MEChA at Cal State Monterey declared, “No farm worker has to die!” Every summer farm workers in California die from working without shade, adequate breaks, and water.
 
 
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