<p><font size=3><strong>Over 3,000 people march on Toronto's first May Day march on a working day</strong></font></p>
<p><font size=2><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/sites/default/files/images/6990825682_cdda5f1565_c_0.img_assist_custom.jpeg" alt="" title="" class="image image-img_assist_custom " width="360" /></span>Toronto -- Six years ago, inspired by 'A day without immigrants' marches across the United States, No One Is Illegal began organizing the May Day of protest in Toronto. We knew that May 1, 2012 would fall on a working day, but did not anticipate how momentous this year would be. On May Day 2012, we joined with thousands of others in over 150 cities across Turtle Island (colonial Canada and the United States) to mark International Workers Day and demand the freedom to move, return, and stay for all. </font></p>
<p><font size=2>What took place in Toronto could not have been possible without the commitment and energy of the May 1st Movement, Occupy Toronto, Food Not Bombs, Opirg Toronto and the over 40 organizations that endorsed, mobilized and organized for the largest May Day in recent memory. </font></p>
<p><font size=2>"We will link our struggles", insisted Gunjan Chopra, organizer with No One Is Illegal - Toronto at the start of the rally. In one voice, the over 3,000 people assembled outside Nathan Phillips Square agreed. And link them we did. From naming war, environmental destruction, capitalism and colonization as the forces that force people out of their homes here and elsewhere, to targeting policies of immigration, social security, policing and austerity that are making the lives of our communities miserable, May Day was a moment of unity, of building relationships across struggles, and of asserting that together, we are unstoppable.</font></p>
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