A very wide rage of issues are going to be represented at the May Day march later today:

The fight for $15; demands to stop police and Border Patrol agents from continuing to kill unarmed, innocent people; immigrants and LGBT rights; support for indigenous rights at Oak Flat and Rio Yaqui; public education (reinstating Mexican-American studies); and the “We Stand With Rosa!” campaign (supporters of Rosa Robles Loreto, who’s been living in sanctuary at Southside Presbyterian Church for eight months now) will also be present. 

Jim Byrne, who is one of the advocates who helped organize this year’s gathering, says this is also about making noise against violence toward sex workers, transgender people—the list is long.

“(These are) people trying to make ends meet, to make a living, to do what they can, and everybody who is at this march is trying to make sure we stand in solidarity,” he says. 

Members of Tucson’s May 1st Coalition—which include labor groups, immigration activists, etc.—will start off at the Santa Rita Park for opening remarks and an invocation by the Calpolli Teoxicalli danza group. The march will then head to Mirasol Park, 29th Street near Mountain, where the Escuelita Musical will perform and more speakers will come forward. 

Also, there will be food!

The march is from 5 to 7 p.m., and will meet at Santa Rita Park.

This article appears in Apr 23-29, 2015.

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4 replies on “Let’s Make Some Noise at the May Day March This Evening”

  2. Hey Jimmy, Boy!

    People hare having a hard time “making ends meet” precisely because, for decades, YOU and the rest of THESE Sensational Folks have worked hard to “aid and abet, entice and invite, and otherwise to encourage the illegal entry of Impoverished Mexicans for both political and economic exploitation.”

    The MORE people who compete for jobs, the lower the wage and the harder time working folks have in “making ends meet.”

    Savvy?

    Wasn’t that Steinbeck’s lesson in “Grapes of Wrath?”

    YOU are no more than a “useful idiot” and a “tool” for right wing, republican cheap labor business interests!

  4. bslap..if you read their FB blogs you will see that all the special interest groups want to band together to get their voices heard in larger crowds…I guess you could say their causes are falling off the face of the Earth and by numbers they look better…haaaaaaaa…not

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