Chicago – From labor rights rally to social justice, staff around the world will start protesting on Thursday.
In some countries it is a public holiday to respect labor, but workers planned in the United States say that most of their message is about fighting against President Donald Trump’s immigrant, federal activists and target policies in diversity programs.
Thousands are expected to protest from Tokyo to Chicago. In some parts of the United States, the fear of the Trump administration is expected to keep some immigrants home.
Chicago’s long -time labor leader George Mujika said, “Now everyone is in the attack,” where the May Day rally was a huge vote on the Histor.
May Day’s roots, or International Labor Day, in the history of US labor for a century turbulent and expanded towards the original period.
In the 1880s, unions, pressing for better workplace conditions began to advise on the eight -hour work day with extensive demonstrations and strikes. In May 1886, a bomb was thrown and the police were retalted with the gun battle, a labor rally in Chicago became deadly. Several workers, most of their immigrants, were convicted of the conspiracy to induce violence among other allegations. Four were hanged.
Unions later recommended that workers per May 1 would be honored.
Unions have taken over worldwide as unions move towards better rights for workers, in recent years, May Day, rally and riots have taken place.
Most of the protests were peaceful but there was a clash with the police.
Last year, Paris police dismissed tear gas because thousands of protesters sought better pay and work conditions through the French capital. In New York City, May Day protests are matched in the campus campuses in Palestinian student camps, resulting in numerous arrests.
This year, organizers of numerous cities, including New York, have called for many reasons and groups.
“We are organizing for a world,” New York’s American Civil Liberty Union is organizing for a world where there is housing, healthcare, fair wages, union protection and protection – regardless of race, immigration status or jeep code, “the American Civil Liberty Union of New York has said in a statement.
Other notable US demonstrations include a labor rally at Philadelphia City with Vermont Sen Bernie Sanders and Protests in Colorado State Capitol and Los Angeles, Seattle and Washington, DC
Although labor and immigrant rights were historically involved, the focus of May Day rally in the United States was transferred to migration in 2006. It is only when about 5 million people, including about half a million in Chicago, took to the streets to protest the federal law, which live in the United States without legal permission.
The crowd for the protests on May 1, since then, has declined with the rights of voters such as splintering and transferring activism groups.
This year, in Chicago, organizers say that the Activism, which starts on Thursday, will continue with Sinco de Mayo boycotts and walkouts. Their focus workers’ rights, but anti -immigrant speeches from the Trump administration are also increasing.
The organizers have acknowledged the cool impact on the migrant community as the so -called sanctuary has crack in the so -called sanctuary cities, especially about the application of Trump. They are expecting less migrants but are expanding their promotion to more unions, including teachers and nurses.
“There is a lot of fear,” said Omar Lopez, a long -time Chicago organizer.
In some countries, May Day is a public holiday for workers, including France, Kenya, Russia and China, where it lasts five days.
It is also a traditional span of spring that is observed in a way that is not involved in the streets or citizen disobedience.
In Hawaii, it is called May 1 Lei Day, which is not an official holiday, but a state -of -the -art celebration of Hawaiian culture and Aloha Spirit by creating and delivering Lee – usually flower necklace.
Otherwise, people identify the holidays with gifts and flowers filled with flowers at the doorstep of friends. The city of Annapolis in Maryland is set to hold its 70th May basket competition, where residents and traders surpass each other for the best flower system.
“This is the way of our community to say goodbye to the winter and welcome the beauty and energy of the spring,” said Gavin Buckley, Mayor of Annapolis.
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