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COMMUNITY GROUPS, IMMIGRANTS, STUDENTS, THE UNEMPLOYED AND OTHER PROGRESSIVE ACTIVISTS TO HOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE

MONDAY APRIL 27, 2009
12NOON
AT UNION SQUARE

TO ANNOUNCE FINAL PLANS
FOR MAY DAY 2009
THE 100TH DAY OF
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S ADMINISTRATION

Street vendors, day laborers, students, union and other progressive activists along with many others will hold a press conference Monday, April 27 at 12noon at Union Square to announce final plans for May Day 2009.

Filipino activists and immigrants will bring a 6foot letter addressed to President Barack Obama urging him to pass a fair, humane, and just comprehensive immigration reform this year. Ecuadorian activists will announce plans for a hunger strike to begin soon. Street vendors will focus on the issue of vending licenses, permit caps as well as police harassment.  Day laborers from Queens as well as New Jersey will also talk about police harassment and the demand for workers centers not ICE detention centers.

Union activists as well as unorganized workers will call for the passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, which will help the 80% unorganized in this country to form unions without repression or backlash.

Members of the May 1st coalition will provide details and final plans for May Day 2009.  Thousands of people are expected to gather this May Day and all are calling on President Obama to pass fair immigration reform with an immediate path for documentation of the undocumented. Groups around the country point out that immigrant rights supporters and many Latinos were instrumental in President Obama's victory.

Demonstrations are taking place May 1st in cities around the country including Los Angeles, Detroit, Madison, Tucson, Houston, San Francisco, San Antonio, Boston and many other cities.

The New York City rally and march will begin at Union Square at 12noon with music and culture.  The rally will begin at 4pm and demonstrators will leave Union Square at 530 to march to Federal Plaza.

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