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Scoop Images: Mayday All Around The World
Images from mayday actions in London, Yugoslavia, Poland, Spain and the USA. More images will be published of the global actions as they come available.
The following pictures are sourced from INFOSHOP: http://www.infoshop.org/mayday2000_news.htmland INDYMEDIA: http://www.indymedia.org/
YUGOSLAVIA: Members of the
anti-government student organization Otpor (Resistance),
arrive in the central Serbian town of Kragujevac, greeted by
local members, for a joint Mayday celebration and
demonstration against President Slobodan Milosevic's regime,
in Kragujevac, 140 kilometers (85 miles) southeast of
Belgrade
LONDON: Mac Attack In Central
London
LONDON: Big Ben and
Anti-capitalist flags
LONDON: Guerilla Gardeners In
Parliament Square
POLAND: Young members of the
Polish Socialist Party demonstrate in Warsaw Monday, May 1,
2000, during leftist observances of International Labor Day.
Once a communist-sponsored holiday, now left-wing and
anti-authoritarian parties organize May Day Celebrations
demanding more jobs and better government protection for the
poor.
MADRID: Thousands of
demonstrators holding banners and shouting slogans
participate in the May Day march in downtown Madrid, Monday.
Spanish unions staged their traditional rally, demanding
more security at work.
SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS: Child
protestors dressed as
birds.
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