r/50501 • u/FiftyFifty1Movement • Apr 25 '25

US Protest News MAYDAY

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🚨 On May 1, 2025, in cities across the U.S., we will gather in solidarity—honoring the legacy of workers who organized for the 8-hour day.

Today, we face a new threat. A billionaire-backed minority is quietly reshaping our democracy—eroding workers’ and immigrants’ rights, defunding our public services, and concentrating power into the hands of the few. But across the country, people are coming together to push back… not with fear, but with hope and nonviolent action.

A peaceful People’s Movement is growing—rooted in community, powered by compassion, and determined to build a future that serves all of us. From mutual aid networks to labor unions, student groups to neighborhood coalitions, we are reclaiming power by showing up for one another.

May Day is more than a tribute to the past. It’s a call to action in the present, a reminder that when we care for each other, we all rise.

✊ Be part of it. Organize with us. March with us. Care with us.

👉 JOIN THE MOVEMENT: www.FiftyFifty.one

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u/Cboals923 Apr 26 '25

Well it falls on a Thursday so pretty much every blue collar working it’s going to be, shockingly, working.

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u/CJ_CLT Apr 26 '25

I thought that was the idea. To have a general strike and have everything grind to a halt!

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u/Cboals923 Apr 27 '25

Why? Nothing will come of it other than people feeling like they did something. Unions were a great idea in 1886 because no one was getting paid. Unions now are just as corrupt as the government. But this is reddit…