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DESCRIPTION:MAY DAY, MAY DAY: Save Our Democracy! Stop the Billionaire Takeover! 
 \n\nNationwide Protests for Labor, Immigrants, Education, Health Care 
 Access, Democracy & more \n\nMay 1, 2025\n\nFind a protest or action in 
 your area:\n\nMay Day Strong: 
 https://maydaystrong.org/\n\nALSO:\n\nhttps://www.fiftyfifty.one/events\n\nhttps://www.mobilize.us/mayday/\n\nhttps://events.pol-rev.com/search?search&contentType=EVENTS\n\nhttps://www.nvunheard.org/protest-listings/\n\nNational 
 Education Assoc. & educator protest actions: 
 https://www.mobilize.us/nea/?tag_ids=26351\n\n\nMAY DAY STRONG\n\nJoin us 
 in the fight to uphold the Constitution and end executive 
 overreach!\n\nTrump and his billionaire profiteers are trying to create a 
 race to the bottom—on wages, on benefits, on dignity itself. This May Day 
 we are fighting back. We are demanding a country that puts our families 
 over their fortunes—public schools over private profits, healthcare over 
 hedge funds, prosperity over free market politics.\n\nOn May 1, 2025, in 
 cities across the U.S., we will honor the legacy of the workers who gave 
 everything for the eight-hour day—and we will carry their struggle into 
 today’s fight for a country that serves the many, not the few.\n\nOur 
 movement shows the world that the American working class will not sit idly 
 by as plutocrats rip apart the democratic institutions and civil liberties 
 while undermining the rule of law.\n\n50501 Bluesky: 
 https://bsky.app/profile/50501movement.bsky.social\n\n\nTHE ORIGIN OF MAY 
 DAY - Indivisible 
 SF\n\nhttps://indivisiblesf.org/blog/origins-of-may-day\n\nFrom time 
 immemorial, people living through cold winters celebrated the coming of 
 spring  and the new planting-season, often with festivals on the 1st day of 
 May. Similarly, the cessation of snow and frigid rain triggered the renewal 
 of strikes, street protests, and struggles for justice and human 
 rights.\n\nOn May 1st, 1886, Chicago labor unions went on strike for an 
 8-hour work day with 80,000 people marching up Michigan Avenue in the first 
 mass May Day March. They chanted: "8 hours for work, 8 hours for sleep, 8 
 hours for what we will."\n\nTheir strike was violently suppressed by the 
 cops, a provocateur threw a bomb at a rally in Haymarket Square, and over 
 the course of several days both strikers and police were killed and 
 wounded. Many strikers were arrested on flimsy evidence and some were 
 executed.\n\nAmerican unions then set May 1st, 1890 as a national day of 
 action for the 8-hour day. Socialists in Europe did the same, declaring May 
 Day to be International Workers Day. Since then, throughout the world May 
 1st has continued to be a day for social and economic justice movements of 
 all kinds and issues.\n\nIn 1894, President Cleveland invoked the 
 Insurrection Act and ordered the U.S. Army to violently suppress the 
 Pullman Strike by railroad workers. This caused great public outrage. To 
 appease public anger, Congress then declared the first Monday in September 
 to be "Labor Day," a new national worker-related holiday, but one shorn 
 from May Day's radical social-justice roots.\n\n\n50501 Commitment to 
 Non-Violence\n\nWe are dedicated to promoting nonviolence in all aspects of 
 our interactions, fostering a culture of respect, understanding, and 
 peaceful conflict resolution.\n\nWe believe that dialogue, empathy, and 
 cooperation are essential in creating a safe and just environment for 
 all.\n\nThrough our actions and commitments, we strive to reject harm and 
 build a community rooted in compassion and mutual 
 respect.\n\n\nORGANIZATIONS:\n\n50501 Movement\nIndivisible\nMoveOn\nOne 
 Fair Wage\nFood & water Watch\nChicago Women Take Action\nChicago Teachers 
 union\nWin Without War\nParents Together Action\nScholars for Social 
 Justice (SSJ)\nWorking Families Power\nBargaining for the Common 
 Good\nNational Education Association (NEA)\nAmerican Assoc. of University 
 Professors\nDebt Collective\nPublic Citizen\nPopular Democracy\nPeople's 
 Action Institute\nSunrise Movement\nAFSCME 3299\nSURJ\nACRE Action Center 
 on Race & the Economy\nPublic School Strong\nWomen's March\nStrong Economy 
 for All Coalition\nUSSW \nHeal Together\nAFT\nand more\n\n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/04/23/18875804.php
SUMMARY:May Day, May Day! Nationwide SOS Protests to Stop the Billionaire Takeover
LOCATION:Nationwide peaceful protests - SF Bay Area and beyond
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/04/23/18875804.php
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