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The 2007 MacArthur Park rallies were two May Day rallies demanding amnesty for undocumented immigrants [1] [2] which occurred on May 1, 2007, at MacArthur Park, in Los Angeles. When the protest overflowed onto city streets, police drove motorcycles through the crowd, then ordered the crowd to disperse.
An estimated 400,000 marched in Los Angeles, according to police [58] The boycott was said to have had "little economic impact" in Arizona [citation needed] Modesto, California saw close to 10,000 people marching in the streets, possibly the largest assembly of people in the city's history. Major city streets were shut down as a direct result.
Police officers monitoring the rally in Portland, Oregon Protestors at the May Day Action Immigrants and Workers March in Washington, D.C. May Day 2017 in New York City. The protests occurred in several major cities, including Chicago, [8] Detroit, [9] [10] Las Vegas, [11] Los Angeles, [12] [13] Miami, [14] New York City, [15] Philadelphia, [14] San Francisco, [16] Seattle, [17] and Washington ...
Accordingly, the Postal Service Board of Governors in 1984 approved the construction of a new $151 million general post office in South Los Angeles. [11] Almost 50 years after Terminal Annex became the city's main mail-processing facility, the new processing facility in South Central opened in 1989. The site is currently used as a data center. [15]
The Central American Resource Center (CARECEN) are two community-based organizations that seek to foster the comprehensive development of the Latino community.CARECEN in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan region was founded in 1981 to protect the rights of refugees arriving from conflict in Central America and to help ease their transition by providing legal services.
Thirteen female refugees from Afghanistan gathered Friday in a Modesto park to celebrate their completion of a program that is expected to improve their families’ economic well-being as well as ...
The Department of Veterans Affairs will host a public Memorial Day commemoration ceremony at Los Angeles National Cemetery, 950 S. Sepulveda Blvd., from 10 to 11 a.m. L.A. Fleet Week in San Pedro
The Sloomoo Institute is a playful palace dedicated to all things slime, where guests can toss it, mold it, walk on it, get drenched by it and even experience the ASMR benefits of it.