Coalition Plans May Day Actions (and you thought last years protests were big??)

[BayCityProgressive]

http://www.workers.org/2007/us/may-day-0215/index.html

In an historic development in the U.S. immigrant rights struggle, a coalition of national organizations met in Los Angeles on Feb. 3-4 to plan and coordinate the “Great American Boycott II” for May 1.



Feb. 2 protest in front of Los Angeles
Federal Building.
WW photo: Dante Strobino
Called by the March 25 Coalition, initiator of the 2006 May Day actions that brought millions into the streets, the coalition aims to defend immigrant workers and show their power by bringing “business as usual” to a halt across the country on May Day.

William Torres of the coalition described the boycott as “the ultimate fight for dignity and justice.”

After the 2006 actions, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) stepped up vicious raids and deportations in an attempt to stop immigrant workers from organizing.

In one of hundreds of examples, ICE combined union-busting with immigrant worker repression by arresting 21 workers at a North Carolina hog-processing plant on Jan. 24. The raid followed two major protests at the Smithfield plant: one initiated by Latina women to stop harassment over immigration papers, and another led by African-American workers to demand union recognition and Martin Luther King Day as a paid holiday. (Workers World, Feb. 2)

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Basically hundreds of thousands of union workers, immigrants, citizens of New Orleans, Anti-War protesters, and gay rights activists will make their demands on May Day. This will blow last years protests which were MASSIVE, out of the water. An all people's movement is starting to come together in the US. people are starting to link immigration with economic justice, the war, homophobia, racism ect. people are starting to see how all of these things are caused by our corrupt system. Thes eimmigrants jobs are a property right. They came here to work hard for almost nothing. They have built these companies up and they are just as much owners as the rich white guys who bussed them in.