May Day Marches
Coverage of May 1st marches in Downtown Los Angeles.
By Eric Richardson — May 03, 2009 — 3 Comments
On May 1, 2009, six separate immigration marches passed through Downtown Los Angeles, lasting from early afternoon into the evening rush hour. A sequence of images...
By Eric Richardson — May 02, 2009 — 4 Comments
Marchers who made their way from Echo Park to Downtown held up red and white cards on Friday afternoon to spell out "Workers First," a creative twist for a day in...
By Ed Fuentes — May 01, 2009
An accurate prediction of today’s traffic was made by a bus driver crawling north on Main Thursday afternoon. As she maneuvered past LAPD construction and a DWP...
By Eric Richardson — May 01, 2009
Early LAPD estimates placed the crowd for Downtown's earliest May Day immigration march at 2,000 - 3,000 this afternoon, far less than the numbers organizers had...
By Eric Richardson — May 01, 2009 — 2 Comments
An hour before the first May Day march is scheduled to start moving, preparations are well underway at the north end of Broadway. Perhaps the first closure of the...
By Eric Richardson — May 01, 2009
Hours before three immigration marches are scheduled to make their way up Broadway, the street was quiet this morning. A scattering of Metro buses made their way...
By Eric Richardson — April 29, 2009 — 17 Comments
On Friday, five different marches will make their way through Downtown, all calling for changes in federal immigration policy. Three will make their way up Broadway...
By Eric Richardson — May 01, 2008 — 1 Comment
Today's marches and the associated street closures were apparently too much for USPS, which decided to take a holiday from mail collection in at least one Historic...
By Eric Richardson — May 01, 2008 — 4 Comments
All blogdowntown coverage of today's marches is available in this May 1 topic.
The May Day marches converged Downtown a little after 3pm, with crowds far smaller...
By Eric Richardson — May 01, 2008
All blogdowntown coverage of today's marches is available in this May 1 topic.
For the second year running, the Ronald Reagan State Building is likely to win the...
By Ed Fuentes — April 30, 2008 — 9 Comments
May 1st is March Day for Downtown L.A., as four marches set out from three start points, dividing Downtown into four pieces and making sure tomorrow will be an interesting...
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