May Day 2007 March from UC Santa Cruz to Downtown
May 1st, 2007
Hundreds of students and workers rallied at UCSC’s Baytree Plaza and then marched to downtown Santa Cruz to meet up with families from the Beach Flats. The demonstration, which ended in the Beach Flats, was part of the international workers day celebrations popularly known as May Day. The M.I.R.A. Coalition, Movement for Immigrant Rights Alliance, at UCSC organized students and workers in the march against the current inhumane situation undocumented immigrants are facing and to demand the following:
* Stop the militarization of the U.S.-Mexican Border
* Stop the unjust deportation and criminalization of all immigrants
* Support and protect workers rights
* Legalization for undocumented
* Close inhumane detention centers
* Stop the Separation of families
* Stop the military recruitment of immigrant youth
* Equal rights as citizens, regardless of immigration status
