may day

On May Day in New Orleans, immigrants and their supporters marched for just immigration reform and an end to deportations.

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At a May 1 New Orleans rally and march for immigrant rights, Ted Quant, a social activist and director of the Twomey Center for Peace through Justice at Loyola University, delivered the following speech on the history of May Day, the need for workers and communities to unite across race, and how the attack on immigrant workers [...Read more]

On May Day, over one hundred New Orleanians marched to City Hall, where they called for justice for the city's immigrants.  The protestors called for an end to inhumane immigration practices, such as deportation and local law enforcement's targeting of immigrants. [...Read more]