#may-day

#may-day

May Day, an ancient festival celebrating spring, coincides with a full flower moon this year, inspiring seasonal recipes with local ingredients and garden flowers.

City officials, including Board President Rafael Mandelman and congressional candidate Supervisor Connie Chan, were arrested at San Francisco International Airport on Friday during a May Day protest against conditions for airport workers and ICE's presence in airports across the country.

Neidi Dominguez, founding executive director of Organized Power in Numbers, stated that they expect more than twice the number of May Day events than last year, indicating a significant increase in participation and activism.

The message this year is that the country should be 'focusing on workers over billionaires.' We know there are bus drivers in New York and teachers in Idaho and nurses in Louisiana who are feeling the impact of a system that has decided to put billionaires ahead of everyone else.

August Spies, one of the Haymarket martyrs, stated, 'If you think that by hanging us, you can stamp out the labor movement... expect salvation-if this is your opinion, then hang us! Here you will tread upon a spark, but there, and there, and behind you and in front of you, and everywhere, flames will blaze up. It is a subterranean fire. You cannot put it out.'

3 Women unfolds in Southern California's hazy desert, where Millie's breezy, talkative nature entrances her naïve new roommate/coworker, Pinky. Hovering at the edge of the narrative, stoic artist Willie paints an eerie, reptilian mural in an emptied swimming pool.

Freedom of expression is taken each time silence feels safer than speech, each time convenience outweighs conviction, each time we mistake the absence of punishment for the presence of freedom.

Neidi Dominguez stated that the number of May Day events this year had more than doubled compared to last year, with expectations of over 3,000 actions across the country. She emphasized that Minneapolis provided significant motivation for this year's actions, highlighting the growing awareness of workers' collective power.