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World's Workers Rise Up in Celebration and Protest on May Day
Demanding dignity and end of economic status quo that undermines labor rights and fair treatment, world's labor force celebrates and activates
May 01, 2014
In marches and street demonstrations, people across the world on Thursday were marking May Day, or International Labor Day, by demanding better treatment of working people and union members as they also called for respect of democratic freedoms and equal rights.
In Turkey, thousands of people defied new laws barring unauthorized public protest and took to the street in Instanbul where they met with police in violent clashes:
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In marches and street demonstrations, people across the world on Thursday were marking May Day, or International Labor Day, by demanding better treatment of working people and union members as they also called for respect of democratic freedoms and equal rights.
In Turkey, thousands of people defied new laws barring unauthorized public protest and took to the street in Instanbul where they met with police in violent clashes:
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In marches and street demonstrations, people across the world on Thursday were marking May Day, or International Labor Day, by demanding better treatment of working people and union members as they also called for respect of democratic freedoms and equal rights.
In Turkey, thousands of people defied new laws barring unauthorized public protest and took to the street in Instanbul where they met with police in violent clashes:
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