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May Day 2011 photos

More than 1,500 people marched from Union Park to Pilsen on Sunday afternoon to mark International Workers Day. The march was organized and led by people from Pilsen, including many young people who are fighting for the rights of their immigrant families and neighbors -- just as the original movement that the Haymarket activists helped create 125 years ago struggled for the rights of immigrant workers and their communities. The call of the day? The people are the movement -- and the movement wants justice, dignity, economic and social equity, and the freedom to live unmolested by state, economic or social oppression. La lucha continua! Couple photos from a gathering earlier in the day at Forest View cemetery, burial place of the Haymarket martyrs and site of the Haymarket memorial.
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May Day 2011 march from Union Park to Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood, long a bastion of immigrant communities, particularly today Chicago's huge Mexican community. The march of more than 1,500 people was organized and led by people from Pilsen, including many young people who are fighting for the rights of their immigrant families and neighbors -- just as the original movement that the Haymarket activists helped create 125 years ago struggled for the rights of immigrant workers and their communities. The call of the day? The people are the movement -- and the movement wants justice, dignity, economic and social equity, and the freedom to live unmolested by state, economic or social oppression. La lucha continua! Couple photos from a gathering earlier in the day at Forest View cemetery, burial place of the Haymarket martyrs and site of the Haymarket memorial.
 
 

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