5-07-07, 9:47 am

BRIDGETON, NJ - 1MAY07 - On May Day immigrants and their supporters marched through the streets of Bridgeton, NJ, a small town with high unemployment, and a growing community of Latino immigrants. Many are farm workers, and the march was organized by the Farm Worker Support Committee (CATA). Other immigrants work in service and light industry. Marchers protested anti-immigrant bills in Congress and local anti-immigrant initiatives. Many African American residents watched the march go through the neighborhoods they share with Latinos, and many cheered the marchers on.

KENNETT SQUARE, PA - 1MAY07 - On May Day immigrants and their supporters marched through the streets of Kennett Square a small town where thousands of immigrant workers labor in sheds growing mushrooms. The march was organized by the Farm Worker Support Committee (CATA) and many workers came from the only union shed, Kaolin Farms.

WASHINGTON, DC - 30APRIL07 - Macrina Cardenas, legislative coordinator of the Mexico Solidarity Network, fasts for a week before May Day, with supporters, to protest the wave of immigration raids across the country. The group calls for stopping the deportations, and protested anti-immigrant bills in Congress and local anti-immigrant initiatives. They called for amnesty -- permanent residence visas which would give the undocumented immediate legal status and rights -- and equality -- opposing second-class status as temporary workers. For more images: http://dbacon.igc.org/PJust/mayday07-00.html

See also the photodocumentary on indigenous migration to the US, Communities Without Borders (Cornell University/ILR Press, 2006).

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