Sunday, May 3, 2009

Video reports on May Day 2009, from San Francisco, Venezuela, China...

Click on: San Francisco: May Day 09 for more video reports from around the world.

VIDEO BY : MARNETTE FEDERIS AND STEPHANIA ROUSELLE FOR THE MAY DAY PROJECT.

Here Mission Local reporter Marnette Federis talk with May Day participants gathered at San Francisco's Dolores Park about what May Day means to them.

May Day Project:
In more than 140 countries, May 1 is celebrated as a workers’ holiday. May Day commonly sees organized street demonstrations and celebrations by hundreds of thousands of working people throughout the world. In the United States May Day has become a day to mobilize undocumented workers for immigration rights. Amanda Martinez and Alba Mora-Roca talked to observers in Russia, Venezuela, Mexico, China and elsewhere to find out how those celebrations differed according to geography.

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