Around Europe groups of the populist right took to the streets on May Day in a series of demonstrations, many of them focusing on defending the jobs of native workers against the hoards of cheap immigrant labor.
While the numbers were mostly small, the spirit was there. See below for examples of coverage for France, for Spain, for Portugal, and for Germany (where leftist counter-demonstrators attacked several NPD rallies.)
Balkanizers Balkanized
Meanwhile, here in the US, open-borders advocates held a series of generally poorly-attended marches and rallies across the country. Particularly gratifying was the weakness and dispersion of the LA events, where multiple competing demonstrations took place, with the combined attendance only a small fraction of the hundreds of thousands who attended the mass demonstration there on May Day, 2006. According to the LA Times:
… even as President Obama, a Democratic Congress and many immigrant activists agree on the major outlines of a reform package, some Southern California activists say differences among them have shattered previous unity and resulted in plans to field separate marches.
The division of this year’s actions apparently fell partly along racial lines, with, for example, the South Asian Network planning its action in the outlying community of Artesia, rather than in downtown LA. Disagreements over just how open the borders should be contributed further to the splintering of other planned actions (as doubtlessly also did the presence of the our favorite splitters and wreckers – ANSWER.) Overall – couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch!
(At Nissa Rebela’s action: “There is no solidarity without identity.”)
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