Why Immigrant Workers Will Fill the Streets This May Day
April 3, 2009
Why Immigrant Workers Will Fill the Streets This May Day
By David Bacon
In a little over a month, hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, of people will fill the streets in city after city, town after town, across the US.
This year these May Day marches of immigrant workers will make an important demand on the Obama administration: End the draconian enforcement policies of the Bush administration. Establish a new immigration policy based on human rights and recognition of the crucial economic and social contributions of immigrants to US society.
This year’s marches will continue the recovery in the US of the celebration of May Day, recognized in the rest of the world as the day recognizing the contributions and achievements of working people. That recovery started on Monday, May 1, 2006, when over a million people filled the streets of Los Angeles, with hundreds of thousands more in Chicago, New York and cities and towns throughout the United States. Again on May Day in 2007 and 2008, immigrants and their supporters demonstrated and marched, from coast to coast.
One sign found in almost every march said it all: “We are Workers, not Criminals!â€
Lets all march in Mexico on May 1st.
And all Americans should go to Mexico and march in the streets and protest their Gov't sending all of their citizens into our country to use up our resources and destroy our country.
Our chants could be "take your citizens back , we don't want them"!