(1 May 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
San Francisco – 1 May 2024
1. Various labor groups and other activists get ready to march
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Berta Hernandez, San Francisco Immigrant Labor Activist:
"We created this coalition to every year bring attention to immigrant rights and also in solidarity with other struggles in the world because May Day is celebrated everywhere else but in the United States, even if the origins are in United States, the struggles of Chicanos. So immigrants are the ones who brought it back. Since 2006, we have continued to bring attention to that, attention to our struggle, especially the question of millions of undocumented workers, that after 30 years still don’t have any possibility of regularizing their status."
3. Organizer leads protest chant from truck bed
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Berta Hernandez, San Francisco Immigrant Labor Activist:
"I hope it will be a momentum for hired workers. The minimum wage was raised. It’s not sufficient. It’s not enough for the city of San Francisco. I don’t think that… for me, minimum wage should be no less than $50 an hour. It’s impossible to rent an apartment and to raise a family in the city. So what happens when the salaries that are 20 and below? You have to live in a single room with your family. That’s the circumstances of many service workers, definitely of the circumstances of immigrant families in the city."
6. Various march along San Francisco streets
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Boxinett King, San Francisco In-Home Caregiver & Union Worker:
"When I started here, I was only making $9 an hour. Now I’m on the road to making $25.50 an hour. So I know what unity, when we stand together, how we can come together and fight. I’ve been fighting here since ’91, and I have seen so many different changes when we all stand together as a community, as a whole."
8. "End Capitalism Before It Ends Us!" sign
9. "Workers Should Run the World" sign
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Boxinett King, San Francisco In-Home Caregiver & Union Worker:
"When we fight, we win and we fight for all. And this is the whole purpose of being present and conscious that we are making a movement, not just for this generation, but for the next generation, because that’s what we stand here for."
11. Protestors bang on drums
STORYLINE:
Workers and activists in San Francisco marked May Day with marches and rallies throughout the famously liberal city, calling for greater labor rights and higher wages.
May Day, which falls on May 1, is observed to celebrate workers’ rights. It’s also an opportunity to air economic grievances or political demands.
During a march in the city’s predominantly Hispanic Mission District, protestors held signs with slogans like "End Capitalism Before It Ends Us" and "Workers Should Run the World."
While labor activists celebrated recent minimum wage hikes, some said salaries are still not keeping up with inflation.
A large portion of the crowd were there to protest the ongoing conflict in Gaza with signs and chants.
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