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Vieques: Celebration and commitment

May 9, 2003

Hundreds of people stood waiting outside the gates of Camp Garcia, the U.S. Navy’s firing zone in the island municipality of Vieques. They were waiting until 12:01 AM, May 1, the first full day when the...

A legacy and a pledge

May 9, 2003

May 1 is a symbolic day of struggle and international solidarity among all the workers of the world. It is also the day I was born. On a May Day morning, 26 years ago, my parents,...

Cleveland fights for healthcare

May 9, 2003

CLEVELAND – The battle for affordable healthcare was the central theme of this year’s May Day event here, where, for the second year in a row, the Cleveland AFL-CIO officially observed this historic working-class holiday. For...

D.C. rallies for immigrant rights

May 9, 2003

WASHINGTON – Immigrant workers observed May Day with a Capitol Hill rally to demand that Congress grant legal residency to 8.5 million undocumented workers by passing the FREEDOM Act. They then moved downtown to a “Justice...

National Clips

May 9, 2003

LAWRENCE, Kansas – People protest war profiteering Over 2,000 residents marched through the center of Lawrence to protest the war in Iraq. The end of the war didn’t keep people like Richard Morantz from protesting. Morantz,...