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Posted on May 2, 2008

May Day with Mushrooms

I went to a demonstration this afternoon in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, sponsored by the Farmworkers Support Committee (CATA) based in South Jersey and the Kaolin Workers Union in Kennett Square. This part of rural (but increasingly exurban) southeast PA is a mushroom-growing area; it supplies 40 percent (!) of the United States' mushrooms. CATA and the Kaolin union are both fantastic worker- and immigrant-led organizations that, beginning with the Kaolin Strike in 1993 and culminating in successful unionization in 2002, have kept up the pressure both for workers' rights and migrant laborer and immigrant rights.


I forgot to bring my camera this year, but here are some photos from last year's demonstration:


La Marcha II: Looking toward town


La Marcha II: "Justicia"


La Marcha II: "They can't deport us all!"


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