Venezuelans March for May Day as Maduro Announces Minimum Wage Gain
Venezuelans March for May Day as Maduro Announces Minimum Wage Gain
By Lucas Koerner
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Over a hundred thousand workers poured out on to the streets of
Caracas on May 1st to celebrate advances for workers' rights
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Caracas, May 1, 2015 (venezuelanalysis.com) - Braving near ninety degree temperatures, over a hundred thousand Venezuelans flooded the streets of Caracas on Friday in commemoration of the significant gains for working people under the Bolivarian Revolution.
"We are here celebrating workers' day, the day of the committed, patriotic worker, the public servant who was exploited for so many years," says Indira Bolivar, organizing coordinator of the Revolutionary Work Party of Sucre state. "But today we have awakened with the Revolution and we stand shoulder to shoulder behind the revolutionary process."
Beginning at the Colegio de Ingenieros metro station in the heart of Caracas, the march continued along the steaming asphalt of Avenue Urdaneta, which was transformed into a seemingly endless column of red. Despite the appearance of a uniform mass, the marchers hailed from a range of diverse parties and social movements, for whom May Day bears a variety of meanings.
"Here we workers are here fighting not only for the right to work, for the liberation of the people as workers, but we are also here as workers who fight for access to land, the right to the city, and the right to dignified housing," explains Nelida Cordero, 65, national spokesperson for Resident Workers United for Venezuela, which organizes female domestic workers.
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May Day, 2015, Caracas.
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Agencia EFE - El presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, participa en una concentración este viernes 1 de mayo de 2015, por el Día del Trabajo en Caracas .
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Esta es la ruta de la marcha para el Día del Trabajador
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Supporters of Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro hold a placard and shout during a protest against imperialism, in
Caracas March 24, 2015. | Photo: Reuters
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Residents take part in a demonstration against the recent sanctions of the U.S. Government against Venezuela, in Caracas,
Venezuela, on March. 15, 2015. (Xinhua/Zurimar Campos/AVN) (da)
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Residents take part in a demonstration against the recent sanctions of the U.S. Government against Venezuela, in Caracas,
Venezuela, on March. 15, 2015. (Xinhua/Zurimar Campos/AVN) (da)
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