Day without Immigrants
The media has been full of coverage about the turnout yesterday on May Day. Here’s a view of Market Street in San Francisco.
Hundreds of thousands of mostly Hispanic immigrants skipped work and took to the streets Monday, flexing their economic muscle in a nationwide boycott that succeeded in slowing or shutting many farms, factories, markets and restaurants.
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Here in Green Valley, we noticed that Manuels was closed for the day, posting a sign that read, “Closed. We would like to serve you but we are understaffed.”
I’m sympathetic to their plight, but the Mexican version of our National Anthem was a real turnoff for me. We will find out in the days ahead if their efforts were helpful or harmful to their cause.
May 7th, 2006 at 10:45 pm
You can’t see me in the picture, can you? That’s because I was 2 stories underground catching the subway the heck out of there–but it would have got me closer to home if the usual Market St. busses had been running and I was severely PO’d.