May Day
That took a long time: the first demonstration in Phnom Penh since several months (or is it years? I lost count)… Some 1500 people showed up for a good humored march in the streets to celebrate Labour Day.
CAMBODIA. Phnom Penh. 1/05/2009: SAM Rainsy, Leader of the Sam Rainsy Party and Kompong Cham Deputy, at the Labour Day celebration.
(Story nr 2009029)
John
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love the blue jeans w/blue banner shot….and, all these YOUNG YOUNG smiling faces
)))…wish i could read Khmer…what do the banners say, ??…
sent u an email this morning
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HAPPY MAY DAY!
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bb
bobblack - May 1st, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Yes young and 70 percent female…
The banners say, stop messing with us or else…
No in fact they ask for decent wages, normal contracts etc… All the things workers in the West were asking (and more or less obtained) 80 years ago…
john vink - May 1st, 2009 at 5:45 pm
John
))))…love the ‘stop messing with us or else’ idea!!! 
..maybe you can encourage them to write that next time
))…especially cool and powerful coming from all those lovely young faces 
))….pulling for them, 80 years late…let’s hope they dont have to wait 80 more years…
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bob
bobblack - May 1st, 2009 at 7:08 pm