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Santa Cruz Indymedia | Education & Student Activism | Immigrant Rights | Labor & WorkersMay Day 2007 March from UC Santa Cruz to Downtown
Hundreds of students and workers rallied at UCSC's Baytree Plaza and then marched to downtown Santa Cruz to meet up with families from the Beach Flats. The demonstration, which ended in the Beach Flats, was part of the international workers day celebrations popularly known as May Day. The M.I.R.A. Coalition, Movement for Immigrant Rights Alliance, at UCSC organized students and workers in the march against the current inhumane situation undocumented immigrants are facing and to demand the following:  mira-coalition_5-1-07.jpg
§Baytree Plaza at UC Santa Cruz
 baytree_5-1-07.jpg  brown_5-1-07.jpg  running_5-1-07.jpg While walking down the road from the Baytree Plaza, some students said that we would begin to run for a little bit. When questioned why, I overheard someone casually explain that, "it is what they do in other countries."
Here is an example from Oaxaca, Mexico, September 1, 2006 http://indybay.org/newsitems/2006/09/07/18306605.php#18306612  white_5-1-07.jpg White Only, English Only, Same Thing
 mira_5-1-07.jpg Marching down Mission Street / Highway 1 towards downtown Santa Cruz
 humano_5-1-07.jpg No Human Being is Illegal!
 dream_5-1-07.jpg  middle-schoolers_5-1-07.jpg Students at Mission Hill Middle School
 mission_5-1-07.jpg The march took a long break on Mission Street when students at Mission Hill Middle School crowded along the fence separating them from the demonstration.
 workers_5-1-07.jpg These workers spent most of their day repairing a small section of Mission Street, but they were able to pause for a few moments and watch the march pass go by.
 flyers_5-1-07.jpg Students at Mission Hill received flyers for the MAY 1st WEEK of Action & Awareness at UCSC:
http://indybay.org/newsitems/2007/04/30/18407341.php  elementary_5-1-07.jpg Like the students at Mission Hill Middle School, these students at Holy Cross Elementary School raised their fists in the air and began chanting with us and yelling the slogans off our signs, such as "Brown is Beautiful" and "End Racism"
 join-us_5-1-07.jpg Families living in the Beach Flats organized a march along with la Liga de la Comunidad (Santa Cruz Community Soccer League) which joined the march from UCSC at Mission Street and Pacific Avenue.
 stop-exploiting_5-1-07.jpg Hundreds of Santa Cruzans marched from downtown Santa Cruz to the Beach Flats to protest the inhumane situation undocumented immigrants are currently facing.
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