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Mayday! Mayday! Our Democracy Under Attack!
San Francisco May Day rally and marchers see emergency
Photos: Leon Kunstenaar
(San Francisco, May 1, 2025) - People gathered in front of City Hall for the rally celebrating May Day, the worker's holiday created to "honor the martyrs" that is celebrated throughout the world. It originated in Chicago in 1886 when four labor activists were hung for a crime they did not commit.If there was one sign that summed up the tone of this year's May Day event, it was the one that shouted "MayDay! Mayday! Mayday! our democracy is under attack!" There were many signs on the theme of a democracy in danger and making comparisons to Germany's descent into Nazism.
By world May Day standards, it wasn't huge. Perhaps a couple of thousand people. The last May Day march in Europe that I covered took five hours to pass the place where I stood on a wide Paris boulevard. Americans are just not that political any more. Maybe the trauma of Trump we are beginning to undergo will change all that.
Along with the pro-labor signs and banners, there were many that heaped derision and contempt on Trump. "Fuck Trump" signs were abundant.
The City Hall rally morphed into a march on Market Street heading towards the Embarcadero. As the marchers approached their first stop, the building on Sansome Street housing ICE, a chant of three words, "Trump must go" repeatedly swelled from the crowd. The chant got louder and louder, we almost had a mob. But not quite.
After a short rally, the march headed to the Embarcadero where it dispersed.
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BREAKING: Donald Trump's ICE agents invade an innocent American family's home, force a woman and her three daughters onto the lawn half naked, seize their phones, laptops, and life savings and then leave them like an "an abandoned dog."This is the most horrifying MAGA regime story yet..According to local TV station KFOR, roughly 20 federal agents — including ICE officers, U.S. Marshals, and FBI agents — raided the wrong house in Oklahoma City and told the woman inside, identified as "Marisa," that they had a search warrant. In reality, the suspects named in the warrant didn't live in the house. Not only that, but they weren't connected to anyone in the family.This is whats happens when you mix weaponized incompetency with ruthless fascism. Donald Trump and his minions are as stupid as they are cruel."We just moved here from Maryland. We’re citizens. That’s what I kept saying. We’re citizens," said Marisa.The feds barged into the house, ransacked it, and forced the family outside in their underwear, displaying the kind of callousness and inhumanity we have come to expect from this administration. They seized the family's belongings, calling it "evidence." Since the warrant was invalid for the house, it really just amounted to governmental theft."I told them before they left, I said you took my phone. We have no money. I just moved here. I have to feed my children," said Marissa. "I’m going to need gas money. I need to be able to get around. Like, how do you just leave me like this? Like an abandoned dog.”"They were very dismissive, very rough, very careless,” she continued. "I kept pleading. I kept telling them we weren’t criminals. They were treating us like criminals. We were here by ourselves. We didn’t do anything."One agent dismissively told the family that it was a "little rough this morning," a gross understatement. This is an authoritarian nightmare."It was so denigrating. That you do all of this to a family, to women, your fellow citizens. And it was ‘a little rough’? You literally traumatized me and my daughters for life. We’re going to have to go get help or get over this somehow," said Marisa. The agents told her that it might take days or even months for the family's belongings to be returned. They refused to give her a business card.Please like and share!
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BREAKING: Donald Trump's ICE agents invade an innocent American family's home, force a woman and her three daughters onto the lawn half naked, seize their phones, laptops, and life savings and then leave them like an "an abandoned dog."This is the most horrifying MAGA regime story yet..According to local TV station KFOR, roughly 20 federal agents — including ICE officers, U.S. Marshals, and FBI agents — raided the wrong house in Oklahoma City and told the woman inside, identified as "Marisa," that they had a search warrant. In reality, the suspects named in the warrant didn't live in the house. Not only that, but they weren't connected to anyone in the family.This is whats happens when you mix weaponized incompetency with ruthless fascism. Donald Trump and his minions are as stupid as they are cruel."We just moved here from Maryland. We’re citizens. That’s what I kept saying. We’re citizens," said Marisa.The feds barged into the house, ransacked it, and forced the family outside in their underwear, displaying the kind of callousness and inhumanity we have come to expect from this administration. They seized the family's belongings, calling it "evidence." Since the warrant was invalid for the house, it really just amounted to governmental theft."I told them before they left, I said you took my phone. We have no money. I just moved here. I have to feed my children," said Marissa. "I’m going to need gas money. I need to be able to get around. Like, how do you just leave me like this? Like an abandoned dog.”"They were very dismissive, very rough, very careless,” she continued. "I kept pleading. I kept telling them we weren’t criminals. They were treating us like criminals. We were here by ourselves. We didn’t do anything."One agent dismissively told the family that it was a "little rough this morning," a gross understatement. This is an authoritarian nightmare."It was so denigrating. That you do all of this to a family, to women, your fellow citizens. And it was ‘a little rough’? You literally traumatized me and my daughters for life. We’re going to have to go get help or get over this somehow," said Marisa. The agents told her that it might take days or even months for the family's belongings to be returned. They refused to give her a business card.Please like and share!
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