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September 4, 2012:
Four members of the Worcester (Massachusetts) Unemployment Action Group pose for a photo in the soup kitchen where they hold weekly meetings, the day after their successful Labor Day street theater action.
The day before this photo, six members of the group snuck into the state's largest Labor Day parade, in Marlborough, Massachusetts, and carried this hand-painted banner one and a half miles in view of several thousand people. The team handed out approximately seven hundred flyers, chanted for jobs and asked parade viewers to "Tell the politicians we need jobs now!"
By good luck, the group grabbed a leading position in the parade, preceding the state's two candidates for U.S. Senate. Members say they failed to register with parade organizers in advance, and obtain a properly assigned parade position, through an unforeseen administrative error.
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