9/01/2003

CNN has coverage of the March on Yale this morning, as well as other real Labor Day events, here. "This is the site of national Labor Day outrage," Jackson said. "This is going to be for economic justice what Selma was for the right to vote." The march began shortly after 9 a.m. and ended in a rally at Yale's Beinecke Plaza and Woodbridge Hall, which houses university President Richard Levin's office. Police said between 1,000 to 1,500 people marched with Jackson, including Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz, who graduated from Yale, and state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, a Yale Law School graduate. Jackson and about 30 others then blocked traffic. To the cheers of protesters, Jackson was the first to be handcuffed at about 11:30 a.m. and led onto a bus to be processed at police headquarters.

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