In more than 140 countries, May 1 is celebrated as a workers’ holiday. May Day commonly sees organized street demonstrations and celebrations by hundreds of thousands of working people throughout the world. In the United States May Day has become a day to mobilize undocumented workers for immigration rights. Watch May Day coverage from the Mission and around the globe. Click on the reporter’s name on the map below to see what May 1st was like in their country! Produced by AMANDA MARTINEZ and ALBA MORA-ROCA with MISSION LOC@L STAFF


The May Day experiment was broadcast LIVE on May 1st at 6 PM. Due to technical difficulty not all international interviews were included in the show, but can now be seen after the shows end credits.

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  1. Hi Tony Platt, thanks for telling us about the map. Now the links are fixed and you can watch the videos they send to us. Please do not miss the Venezuela video, it’s impressive.
    Thanks again, Alba Mora-Roca.

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  2. Great idea to link us with May Day demos around the world, but links on map take me to Wikipedia and not to your correspondents.
    Tony

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