Roundup of IMC reports of Mayday, 2006


Roundups of Mayday news from Indymedia sites across the country:
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Here are some initial numbers:

10,000 March in Portland, Oregon
San Diego: Over 10,000 at multiple events.
Atlanta: 3,000
Chicago: 300,000
Denver: 75,000
Kansas City: 2,000
Las Vegas:
Los Angeles: 500,000
Madison: 3,000
Miami: 10,000; 65,000 absent from schools
Milwaukee: 70,000?
New Orleans:
New York City: 100,000
Phoenix: Hundreds
Salem, Oregon:
San Francisco: 55,000
Seattle: 30,000
Washington, DC: Thousands

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Accomack County, VA: several hundred
Albuquerque, NM: 2,000
Atlanta, GA: 5,000
Bakersfield confrontation w cops preventing march
Berkeley: 1,000 college & high school students
Boston: 2,000
Boulder, CO: 2,000+?
Ceres, CA (N. San Joaquin Vly)
Chicago 400,000 (one estimate 750,000)
Cleveland OH
Concord, CA-3,000
Dallas 1,500
Denver CO 75,000
Kansas City: 2,000
Eugene 1,000-1,500
Eureka hundreds—march to Arcata
Fresno, CA?
Grand Island, NE: 3,000
Houston: 15,000
Joliet IL: 600
Las Vegas, NV: 2,000
L.A.: 500,000 ( about 72,000 --27% of students absent, 90% of port shut down)
Miami: 10,000 (65,000 walk out)
Madison, WI 7-9,000
Milwaukee: 70,000??
*Modesto, CA: 10,000
NYC 500,000
New Orleans: 500-20,000 (varying sources)
Oak Cliff TX: 500
Oakland, CA: 50,000
Olympia, WA: 400
Omaha: 3-6,000
Philadelphia: 7,000 (inc 1,000 coming from Camden)
Portland- 25,000
Raleigh NC
San Diego: 10,000+ at multiple events
San Francisco: 55-100,000
San Ysidro 1,500
Santa Ana- 2,000
Santa Cruz 4-6,000
Santa Rosa: 6-7,500 *
Santa Barbara: 4-5,000
Sacramento: 15-40,000
Salinas 20,000 biggest ever in county?
San Jose: 50,000 at least—up to 100,000
Seattle: 30,000
Stockton,CA
Tennesse: 10,000+ strike/boycott
Watsonville: 10,000
Virginia Beach, VA: hundreds
Vista, CA: thousands

Pensacola, Homestead, other FL cities: 30,000
also South Dakota, Maine, Nebraska

*Summary of Oregon
The Dalles: 700
Hood River: 1,500
Madras: 250
Cannon Beach: 175
Medford: 500
Eugene: 400
Salem: 10,000
Portland: 7,000

the fire department here in chicago said six hundred thousand, and some cop commanders off camera said seven hundred thousand

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