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International Workers Day, 2008

May 6, 2008
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Andrew at May Day march

Okay, so this is a little late, but I just now figured out how to upload photos from my cell phone to my computer. Don't laugh, I am slowly catching up with the rest of civilization. Anyway, these are a couple of photos from last Thursday, ie May Day, ie International Workers Day. I met up with Andrew and a couple of his classmates on Muni, where a large group of SFSU students had swarmed and taken over an entire train.

"Amnistia para Todos"

I'm just glad I knew what was going on, because if I had innocently been taking Muni and all of a sudden a mob of students pounding drums and chanting "Si se puede!" had appeared, I might have found it mildly irritating. But as it was, it was pretty fun to be caught up in the excitement. We (our little group, not the entire mob) stopped in the Castro for a couple of beers before the rally in Dolores Park, and then joined the march to Civic Center before everyone wandered off in different directions. I'm not the most political person, so for me the best part was just being out in the sun. But like I mentioned already it was easy to get caught up in everyone else's enthusiasm, which made the whole thing pretty fun in the end.