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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 ...
From January 28 through February 4, 2017, a large number of protests at international airports and other locations were held across the United States and abroad, in opposition to Donald Trump's Executive Order 13769, known as Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States.
The first May Day protests originated in several countries throughout Europe including Stockholm, Madrid, London, Brussels, and Geneva in 1890. [2] While the demand for an 8-hour workday was the primary concern that protesters were protesting for, other demands included improved working conditions, universal suffrage, peace among nations, and international solidarity. [2]
Enjila Farokh Ahmadi, right, talks about her experience going through IRC’s child-care microenterprise development program as IRC business counselor Halima Mohammadi, during a graduation ...
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.
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.