{"id":48000,"date":"2026-05-02T12:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T19:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=48000"},"modified":"2026-05-02T12:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T19:51:09","slug":"a-moment-of-reckoning-4000-may-day-demonstrations-across-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/a-moment-of-reckoning-4000-may-day-demonstrations-across-us\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A Moment of Reckoning\u2019: 4,000+ May Day Demonstrations Across US"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Demonstrators attend a May Day rally marking International Workers’ Day in New York, on May 1, 2026. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Photo by Kena Betancur\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDuring the \u2018No Kings\u2019 demonstrations, we showed what we\u2019re against. May Day is the day we\u2019re making clear what we are fighting for,\u201d said one organizer.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Prager<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 01, 2026 (CommonDreams.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In thousands of locations across the United States<\/a>, workers<\/a> and students are taking off from work and school and swearing off shopping on Friday as part of a national May Day protest<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

May Day Strong, a coalition of activist groups and unions<\/a> organizing the events, said more than 4,000 actions, from marches to pickets to displays of peaceful civil disobedience<\/a>, were underway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018Workers Over Billionaires\u2019: Over 3,000 Events Planned for May Day Across US<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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US Working Class Mobilizes Ahead of Nationwide \u2018May Day Strong\u2019 Rallies<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It is yet another nationwide display of coordinated resistance to the Trump administration\u2019s agenda, including its war in Iran and its use of US Immigration<\/a> and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to attack immigrant communities, issues that were at the forefront of March\u2019s \u201cNo Kings\u201d protests<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Six young protesters with the Sunrise Movement<\/a> were taken into custody<\/a> after blocking a bridge in Minneapolis in what they said was an act of \u201cnonviolent noncooperation\u201d to \u201cstand up to the war in Iran and against ICE terrorizing our neighbors and our cities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dozens more Sunrise protesters in Portland held a sit-in in the lobby of a Hilton hotel that was housing top officials with the Department of Homeland Security, leading to eight arrests<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s May 1st, it\u2019s workers\u2019 day,\u201d one of the protesters was recorded saying while being led away by police. \u201cDon\u2019t forget that you have power.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In New York, over 100 activists\u00a0lined up<\/a>\u00a0outside\u00a0every entrance<\/a>\u00a0to the New York Stock Exchange in downtown Manhattan, banging drums and chanting \u201cNo ICE, no war!\u201d where they were met by a flood of cops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe rich get richer off the backs of poor and working class people.\u201d A May Day protester outside the NY Stock Exchange calls for taxing the rich to fund healthcare and support for the most vulnerable.

\u201cTax the rich and feed the poor.\u201d

WATCH \u2b07\ufe0f @JordanChariton<\/a> & @JonFarinaPhoto<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/v9PPI3l4Fj<\/a><\/p>— Status Coup News (@StatusCoup) May 1, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote>