At a May 1 New Orleans rally and march for immigrant rights, Ted Quant, a social activist and director of the Twomey Center for Peace through Justice at Loyola University, delivered the following speech on the history of May Day, the need for workers and communities to unite across race, and how the attack on immigrant workers is part of a divide-and-conquer strategy by “the 1%.” :
After the state of Arizona banned ethnic studies, Tucson school district followed suit and pulled a number of books, mostly by Latino authors, from classrooms. I
On May Day in New Orleans, immigrants and their supporters marched for just immigration reform and an end to deportations.
At a May 1 New Orleans 
