May Day at the AFL-CIO: Anti-Deportation Art Projected on Headquarters Building

Display highlighted deportation crisis’ impact on immigrant workers

(Washington, DC) Last night, the AFL-CIO and its pro-immigrant allies highlighted the cost of the deportation crisis by way of a 90 by 60 foot projection of a video onto its downtown headquarters. The video, featuring the stories and names of deported immigrant workers, will be projected onto the AFL-CIO again tonight, May 1^st, as well as tomorrow, May 2^nd, from 8:30pm to 11:30.

• The anti-deportation video can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8PYme-us4M&feature=youtu.be
• A video of the event unveiling the display, including AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, can be found here: http://youtu.be/LANYbzbV60s
• A “storify” of event highlights, including pictures that press and blogs can use with attribution, can be found here: http://go.aflcio.org/MayDayAFLCIO
• A flickr with a complete set of event photos can be found here: http://go.aflcio.org/MayDayPhotos

If any publication requires uncompressed files of event video, please contact [email protected]

All video and stills can be used by press with proper attribution. For video, please attribute to the AFL-CIO. For photos, please attribute to Bill Burke, Page One Photography.

Contact: Jeff Hauser or Gonzalo Salvador (202) 637-5018