May Day Workers’ Rights Rally

Animated with plenty of music, dancing and poetry, a workers’ rights rally in Washington Park Friday afternoon was an upbeat contrast to the frustrated protests that exploded across Europe in honor of May Day. Far more hopeful, dozens of union workers and immigration reform advocates mingled in the grass, listening to speakers who called for workers of all backgrounds to unify against corporate and social oppression to build a greater, more equitable, America.

Flanked by her two sons, both wearing homemade shirts protesting the deportation of their father, one woman said her husband was both a determined worker and a victim of a broken immigration system.