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, including an economic blackout as part of 3,500 "May Day Strong" events across the country.
Confirmed
“We’re taking collective action to send a message to the billionaire class: it’s our labor, our spending and our participation that keeps the whole system running, and if we don’t work, they don’t have profits,” said Kukutla.
“As educators, we feel a very real accountability to the young people in the families that we serve,” Stacy Davis Gates, president of the Chicago Teachers Union and Illinois Federation of Teachers, said earlier this week.
And thousands of teachers and protesters marched through downtown Raleigh, North Carolina , in what local outlet the News & Observer reported may be “one of the biggest labor actions in the state’s history”. “We are asking people to take a step into further exerting their power in all aspects of their lives – as workers, as students, as members of local organizing hubs,” she said.
Activists and organizers rally and shut down 4th and Pennsylvania Avenue to observe May Day and D.C. Statehood Day in Washington, D.C., on May 01, 2026. "Time and again, New York City works have shaped history from where we stand right now, " Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in an address at the event.
The Sunrise Movement, a youth-led climate activist group, said that over 100,000 students would be striking from school on Friday. A group of protesters in Memphis, Tennessee , blocked the entrance to Elon Musk’s xAI datacenter by lying in the streets.
President Trump will always have the backs of American workers.
What's confirmed
- “We’re taking collective action to send a message to the billionaire class: it’s our labor, our spending and our participation that keeps the whole system running, and if we don’t work, they don’t have profits,” said Kuk
- “As educators, we feel a very real accountability to the young people in the families that we serve,” Stacy Davis Gates, president of the Chicago Teachers Union and Illinois Federation of Teachers, said earlier this week
- And thousands of teachers and protesters marched through downtown Raleigh, North Carolina , in what local outlet the News & Observer reported may be “one of the biggest labor actions in the state’s history”.
- Activists and organizers rally and shut down 4th and Pennsylvania Avenue to observe May Day and D.C.
- The Sunrise Movement, a youth-led climate activist group, said that over 100,000 students would be striking from school on Friday.
- President Trump will always have the backs of American workers.
What's still developing
- Activists and organizers rally and shut down 4th and Pennsylvania Avenue to observe May Day and D.C. Statehood Day in Washington, D.C., on May 01, 2026.
- The Sunrise Movement, a youth-led climate activist group, said that over 100,000 students would be striking from school on Friday.
- President Trump will always have the backs of American workers.
- "Time and again, New York City works have shaped history from where we stand right now, " Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in an address at the event.
- A group of protesters in Memphis, Tennessee , blocked the entrance to Elon Musk’s xAI datacenter by lying in the streets.
- “We are asking people to take a step into further exerting their power in all aspects of their lives – as workers, as students, as members of local organizing hubs,” she said.
- And thousands of teachers and protesters marched through downtown Raleigh, North Carolina , in what local outlet the News & Observer reported may be “one of the biggest labor actions in the state’s history”.
- “As educators, we feel a very real accountability to the young people in the families that we serve,” Stacy Davis Gates, president of the Chicago Teachers Union and Illinois Federation of Teachers, said earlier this…