IWW members in Sioux Falls South Dakota demonstrate in solidarity with immigrant workers on May Day

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IWW members in Sioux Falls South Dakota demonstrate in solidarity with immigrant workers on May Day
Submitted by intexile on Wed, 05/02/2007 - 4:19pm.

Article and Photo by By Sheri Levisay - The Argus Leader, May 2, 2007

It's hard to get people to a rally about workers rights on a beautiful 70-degree day in Sioux Falls.

In fact, it's hard to get people interested on any day in Sioux Falls, said Mike Beaver, one of the organizers of a May Day Rally on Tuesday at Van Eps Park.

"People don't care," Beaver said.

But six people did care enough to show up near the Minnehaha County Courthouse, trickling in between 4 and 5 p.m.

The majority of them are active with the Industrial Workers of the World, "a solidarity union interested in immigrants rights, both legal and illegal," Beaver said.

Some of them looked the part. Beaver wore a T-shirt saying, "Not my president." Various piercings, tattoos, red-streaked hair. One smoked a cigar, another a pipe. One carried a police-style riot shield.

Travis Stuckey, another organizer, showed up a bit late. "It's the first time I've ever worked on May Day," he said.



He had passed out Spanish-language pamphlets at bus stops, near the John Morrell plant and other places where Hispanic workers were likely to gather.


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