Caribbean rocks Brooklyn
Peoples of the Caribbean, in a gathering of as many as 2
million, celebrated their unity and pride on Sept. 6 with a
massive festive parade along Brooklyn's Eastern Parkway, ending
at the Grand Army Plaza. The celebration is also a powerful
expression of African pride and reflected the Indigenous
cultures of the region. Along with Caribbean nations, African
Americans participated, some wearing the red, black and green
of the Black liberation movement, along with people from
Brazil, Panama and Venezuela.
Alongside pride went working-class organizing. There was a
strong labor contingent with a presence of Service Employees
Local 32BJ, Carpenters and many others. Organi zers of the
Million Worker March, set for Oct. 17 in Washington, D.C.,
reached out at the parade. Transport Workers Union Local 100
had a huge booth to promote the MWM. The area was visibly
pasted up with stickers that will end up being seen by tens of
thousands of English, French, Spanish and Dutch-speaking
Caribbean people and others.
-- Pat Chin
Reprinted from the Sept. 16, 2004, issue of
Workers World newspaper
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