
Over one thousand people marched from south Tel Aviv's Florentin's community garden plot to Rothshild Boulevard, in a red-flagged first of May demonstration.
Upon arrival at Rothshild, several speakers raised their voices in favour of solidarity amongst workers and against the capitalist and racist approach of the current government.
Among the speakers were the chairwomen of the Open University's labour committee (who have been striking against their terrible employment conditions for over two weeks now) and of the labour committee of the "Andaluse" orchestra, who have not received a salary for over 4 months now. A students rep as well as a representative of the fired train employees (fired because they are Arab's) , social workers as well as Knesset member Dov Khenin spoke about the price paid by Israel's working poor as well as the unemployed.
The somewhat ceremonial ending included the singing of the "
Internationale", with Dov Khenin susanboyling it, he's got a good voice actually and he knows the lyrics, unlike some of his audience.
2 comments:
Thanks for posting. Who wrote the text? Has a British sound and spelling. Just curious.
nope, just humble me. However, I was taught English by a Brit.
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