Hundreds of thousands of people rallied in U.S. cities and around the globe for International Workers’ Day or May Day, with the focus this year on President Donald Trump’s agenda.

Hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. and around the world rallied Thursday in May Day protests that united many in anger over President Donald Trump’s agenda from aggressive tariffs that are stoking fears of global economic turmoil to his administration’s immigration crackdowns.

In the United States, organizers framed this year’s International Workers’ Day protests as a pushback against what they see as the administration’s sweeping assault on labor protections, diversity initiatives and federal employees. Protesters lined streets in many cities from New York to Philadelphia to Los Angeles and held a boisterous rally outside the White House in Washington.

  • msprout@lemmy.world
    54·
    1 天前

    I saw on the news last night that here in Philly, there were almost 70 arrests by city police of a group of union demonstrators doing an organized sit-in. When they were hauling one middle-aged black lady away, the news shoved a microphone in her face and asked if it was worth it. She just replied, “solidarity forever.” ✊🏻

      • msprout@lemmy.world
        10·
        24 小时前

        It honestly shocked me so much that I had to do some research before bed just to make sure that number was right. Seems like it was. But I also was there in Pittsburgh during the riots that happened during the 2009 G20 summit, and that also saw similar numbers of people arrested and charged.

        No city has resources, especially right now, to find charges that stick on all those people, so they put everyone in front of a judge on a rapid fire basis, and that judge basically triages the ones with charges that would actually matter. I saw something like 80% of the cases get dropped entirely, though, many months later, which is still plenty of time to ruin a worker’s life.

  • bonsai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    23·
    1 天前

    Where are people getting news in advance of these protests happening? I feel like I keep finding out afterwards. I would like to attend! I mean I have stopped using most social media but even my friends/family that haven’t don’t seem to know either

    • aramis87@fedia.io
      20·
      1 天前

      I usually start with The Big List of Protests, where a lot of stuff gets cross-posted. Political revolution gets the 50501 protests and some other stuff (note that the site has had connectivity issues when but protests are upcoming and we in the outside aren’t sure if that’s bandwidth issues, hardware/software limitations, or sabotage. If you see an upcoming protest that looks possible, screenshot it just in case you can’t look it up later.] Indivisible runs their own calendar (they have connections with the Democrats, so I wouldn’t use my real contact info with them unless you want you start getting mailers and begging letters), and there’s also No Voice Unheard.

      50501 on reddit recently had some kind of moderator drama (idk i heard about it in passing). The original moderators have a new sub at /r/50501movement, but /r/50501 is still active and I’m not sure how many people know or care about the difference. Depending on how active it is, you may be better off using your state or regional 50501 subreddit anyway.

      If you can’t make a protest, or don’t want to, you can start with Five Calls, which lists current events or upcoming votes to talk to your Congresscritters about. They suggest choosing one topic each day and making one set of calls every day, but any calls you can make are important. Apparently they’re semi-ignoring emails and letters, as so many of them can be brigaded, but they’re still paying attention to phone calls - possibly because the constant ringing is annoying. [If you end up in voicemail, try calling one of the local state offices for your Congresscritter.] If they hold one that you can get to, to go a town hall so they can see lots of angry faces.

      I will note that one reason the Republicans have had so much influence over their Congresscritters is that, apparently in the past, they got 4 phone calls from Republicans for every one phone call from a Democrat. I’m not sure where the math currently stands. If you have any connection with the Congresscritter, mention that: “I worked on/volunteered for/donated to their campaign” (even if it was decades ago), etc. If not, try for some other connection: “I’ve voted for your party my entire life”, “I live in [member’s] home town/office town”, “They were wonderful and helped me with this problem years ago”, whatever you can think of.

      If you are calling, this one’s important: if they do something you approve of, call or write and let them know that as well! No one’s going to like getting yelled at all the time, and we can give them both positive and negative reinforcement. So if Cory Booker or Hakeem Jeffries or anytime else does something noticable you approve of (the sit-in, the filibuster, whatever) call and thank them, even if they’re not your Congresscritter, then call your Congresscritter, tell them how impressed you were with the other guy’s actions, and ask them to support your cause-of-the-day.

      There are a lot more resources out there, and many more things you can do to help, but those are the ones I’d start with.

      • Mike D.@lemm.ee
        3·
        17 小时前

        Thank you for pointing out Five Calls. I’ve been feeling guilty about not attending protests but I’m just not built for them. I read this post today at work and saved it. I made three calls after work and will make two more.

      • PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 天前

        Wonderful post. Thanks. I use 5calls as it makes me anxious to make these types of calls. The format and guide help immensely. I mostly get the voicemail, but on occasion I get an empathetic intern (D).

        Cory Booker gets kudos after his speech and I applauded him for it. Unfortunately, he voted against limiting arms sales to Israel shortly thereafter. That earns him condemnation. Two calls.

        I keep calling my reps and encouraging them to publicly stand up to this regime. I’ve now incorporated my governor into the call rotation, too. I really struggle with the business as usual approach being shown and desire more. We need more from our representatives (D or R). Please call and tell them so.

    • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
      4·
      1 天前

      I mean you have to be a bit plugged in. Im not sure if news communities will take down one talking ahead of time but its not really news till it happens. !50501@piefed.social is the place to go when your part of the federation.

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
    8·
    1 天前

    It annoys me a bit that the local news seemed to cover this a bit better than the other ones and I feel because its mayday. They are like this is the largest mayday since such and such a time but its like hey you know all those other ones were just as large downtown. My local channel has been covering it but like just a blip at one news point before mayday. At least with this one the blurb continued from the afternoon to evening to morning blocks which should have been the case with the others. Should really have a blurb at the weekend ones to since to me those should sum up the week a bit.