"San Francisco is a union town. San Francisco Airport is the people's airport. We know our workers deserve fair pay, fair contract, healthcare and benefits. And we're demanding that our workers to get that benefits and that fair pay right now."
May 1st did not begin as a celebration. It began as a fight. In 1886, American workers took to the streets demanding an eight hour workday instead of the grueling 12 hour shifts that defined industrial labor.
Any player who covers their mouth when confronting an opponent or who leaves the pitch in protest at a refereeing decision will receive an automatic red card at this summer's World Cup.
"It was done out of conscience and conviction, but was not something a few months ago we thought we would ever have to do - or even want to do," said Frances Riley, who had been on the committee of one of the shuttered Women's Institute chapters.
A group of organizations calling themselves the De-ICE Citizens Bank Coalition is demanding that the bank end its relationship with ICE, specifically by halting its financial ties with CoreCivic and The GEO Group, prison corporations that work on behalf of the federal agency.
I turned, and I saw there were two guys on the field. They were running in my general direction... I was irritated to begin with because they stopped the game. They shouldn't be on the field.
Protesters gathered outside the offices at the corner of 3rd Avenue and East 50th Street, seeking entry to the senators' quarters but were denied by the building's head of security.
The court on April 13 found all defendants guilty of inciting inter-ethnic discord following a protest in which participants demanded the release of an ethnic Kazakh detained in Xinjiang.
Rogers gave 'Alaska' the acoustic treatment, surrounded by a string quartet and slowing the song's tempo to folk-tinged crawl, providing a luxurious, introspective rendition.