Opposition to Trump unites May Day protesters.

As soon as Monica Rivera Rosado saw on Facebook that members of New York City’s Puerto Rican community were rallying in solidarity with thousands of protesters in San Juan Monday afternoon, she dropped what she was doing and rushed over to Union Square.

“I’ve been seeing all the posts of people marching throughout the streets in Puerto Rico and you know, I miss it. I want to be there,” said Rosado, who grew up in the island territory but is currently getting her master’s degree in environmental education at New York University. “I definitely support the student movement and I would’ve loved to be involved in their fight right now.”

Mounting frustration over Puerto Rico’s crippling debt crisis and expected austerity measures reached a timely boiling point on Monday, as workers in cities around the country and the globe took to the streets in honor of May Day, or International Workers’ Day.



Caitlin Dickson.
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