Historically, May Day is a celebration of workers’ rights and an opportunity to protest for greater labor protections throughout the world. In Spokane, local nonprofit Latinos En Spokane, with other community partners, organized a march to show solidarity among workers and elevate the need to support immigrant workers.
Our brand new intern — everyone say “Hi, Pascal!” — covered the May Day march last week through photo and video.
“Labor is one point where, when organized, can benefit every community. It is in the interest of all to recognize each other as fellow workers and be in solidarity no matter nationality or immigration status,” Latinos En Spokane wrote in a social media post promoting its May Day march. “A labor movement will be incomplete if we only think of workers as the ones with legal status and exclude those who are immigrants. Workers are workers no matter where you are from.”
Pascal interviewed some of the marchers, who represented both groups across the city demanding better worker protections and members of international movements marching to demand justice for Palestinians. You can watch their video, which contains those interviews, here!
We’re excited that Pascal’s skillset is letting RANGE test out new methods of doing and sharing community journalism, and we’re even more excited to see what they do next.
