A wall-to-wall crowd lined Brooklyn’s Eastern Parkway on Labor Day to revel in the culture and politics of the annual West Indian Day Parade.

Local 100 was a major presence in the day’s vibrant culture and boisterous politics.

Well before dawn, local 100 members accompanied Honorary Grand Marshal Roger Toussaint in a traditional J’Ouvert celebration.

Later, the  Local 100 President marched the length of the parade route arm-in-arm with New York Governor David Paterson, New York mayoral candidate Bill Thompson and comptroller candidate John Liu.

Still to come was the Local 100 float. Flanked by costumed dancers from Elegance  Mas’ Camp, scores of Local 100 members marched with the float, from which DJ New Wave blasted a medley of Caribbean hits and old favorites.

In addition to carrying hundreds of traditional campaign posters urging the crowd to vote for Thompson, Liu and Public Advocate candidate Bill de Blasio, the Local 100 political contingent sported life-sized posters of a Godzilla-like Mayor Bloomberg, crushing a subway car in one hand and a bus in the other, stomping on panicked commuters while crying, “I don’t need NYC, NYC needs ME!”

Local 100 members who accompanied the anti-Bloomberg poster distributed to appreciative parade watchers thousands of post-card sized versions of the poster, inscribed with a 4-point summary of Bloomberg’s attacks on the MTA and Local 100.