May Day Protests Across Illinois Link Labor, Immigration Rights and Anti-War Calls

May Day protests across Illinois link labor, immigration rights and anti-war calls – Capitol News IL

Rallies were held at more than 50 locations across the state.

May Day protests across Illinois link labor, immigration rights and anti-war calls

CHICAGO — Georgette Foss, 66, walked hand in hand Friday through Union Park with her friend Mary Shapiro, 64, holding a sign that read, “Workers over billionaires — fund communities, not wars.”

Demands for workers’ rights, voting, and immigrant rights highlight May Day

WASHINGTON—Depending on which city, suburb, or small town you marched in, demands for workers’ rights, for closing the income gap between the rich and the rest of us, and against the repressive Donald Trump administration highlighted the 5,000 May Day marches on May 1, International Workers Day. In D.C.’s marches, Trump’s attacks on the standard of living of workers, caused by his war on Iran, his attacks on voting rights, his attacks on immigra…