May Day immigrant protests roll through the South ...

By Chris Kromm / May 1, 2006

20,000 in Orlando, thousands more in rest of Florida ...

Poultry giant Perdue shuts down eight facilities in Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia ...

Tennessee Pride shut down ...

550 demonstate in Louisville, Kentucky ...

Thousands at multiple rallies in North Carolina ...

Boycott "being felt" in Richmond, Virginia ...

Rallies in four Arkansas cities ...

300 march in New Orleans ...

Alabama company providing Latino laborers shuts down ...

Thousands rally in Houston and along the Texas/Mexico border ...

And of course, in other countries there are massive May Day demonstrations which the media is describing as "mostly peaceful."

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