A Day of Shouting, Marching In Name of Multiple Causes
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A hodgepodge of causes brought hundreds of New Yorkers out into the streets to shout and march on the day workers’ rights are celebrated around the world.
They shouted about affordable housing, deportations, worker rights, and Sean Bell — and sometimes all of the above.
In the largest march down Broadway yesterday, flags from around the world waved above the crowd along with posters protesting the recent deportations of thousands of immigrants and the acquittal of three NYPD detectives accused of shooting Bell.
A separate rally in front of City Hall brought the Teamsters Union out to yell about public housing.
Some of the posters did double duty, calling for a stop to “NYPD and ICE terror,” referring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“I think there’s a shared threat of oppression,” one marcher at the Broadway march, Dennis Chin, 23, of New Jersey, said.
A marcher carrying a Sean Bell sign confessed she was more concerned about the deportations than anything else.
Patricia Torres, 36, a mother of four from Mexico, said the deportations scared her because they are separating parents from their children.
“I came more for the raids,” she said, but added, “With that young man, the police were wrong, too.”
