Overview
- May Day Strong, a broad labor and community coalition that mapped roughly 3,000 or more U.S. actions for Friday, urges people to skip work, school, and shopping.
- Organizers center three demands that include taxing the rich, ending ICE operations and war, and expanding democracy over corporate power.
- Major marches are scheduled in New York from Union Square to Washington Square and in Los Angeles starting at MacArthur Park, with dozens more rallies across California and a slate of events in Arizona.
- Los Angeles labor groups have trained volunteers in de‑escalation and plan hundreds of peacekeepers to keep marches nonviolent.
- Chicago Public Schools will hold classes Friday but will allow excused civic absences and field trips to pro‑labor rallies under an agreement with the teachers union.