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Protests against Trump in May During the day, butt about us: Live updates

Protests against Trump in May During the day, butt about us: Live updates

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Protests against what the organizers call the “billionaire takeover” are planned in every US state.

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Washington – thousands of people marched near the White House as part of nationwide protests against the Trump government, their politics and the billionaires, which they support in what the organizers call “a war against working people”.

Over 1,000 demonstrations and rallies are planned in every state and abroad. The 50501 movement, which has stimulated other nationwide protests this year, helps to organize demonstrations together with unions, student groups and other basic organizations this year.

One of the larger protests is expected in Washington, DC, where a rally “Move Movement USA” is planned in the National Mall. In Philadelphia, Senator Bernie Sanders will connect the “workers over billionaires” who are organized by the city's AFL Cio chapter.

The organizers say that the protests will concentrate on the opposition to President Donald Trump and the billionaire supporters, including Elon Musk, who led the reduction of the Federal Workforce through the Department of Government Efficiency. The organizers accuse the Trump administration Musk and their wealthy supporters of “deleting work rights, breaking our unions and silence to silence”.

“We are calling for a country that brings our families above their fortune – public schools through private profits, healthcare towards hedge funds, prosperity about the policy of the free market,” says the organizers' website.

The protests come according to Trump's 100th day and as the President Lower the Recognition Reviews. Since his return to the Oval Office, Trump and his administration have reduced thousands of jobs in the federal government, issued tariffs that have led to an escalating trade war with China and started a deportation program that triggered bitter court campaigns.

Jaime Contreras, the Executive Vice President of the SEIU 32BJ union, which represents 185,000 workers along the east coast, joined the protest in Washington with dozens of members to work for the rights of immigrants. “We are workers. We are not criminals. We have come here. Represented workers in commercial office buildings, German offices and airports from Maine to Florida. According to the organization's website, more than 40 percent of Seiu members are minorities. The organization was founded in 1921 by a group of immigrants who worked as caretaker.

The audience protesters in Washington swelled to thousands until 12 noon. People of all ages include traffic when they marched and sang on the streets north of the White House, which has now become a common protest phrase in the district: “This is how democracy looks like.”

The crowd was Jodi Sangster, whose resignation from the US Army came into force on the day of the protest. She said while she had planned to retire before Trump returned to office, she had “never served”. The Lieutenant Colonel said that it had come out to protest against the “openly unconstitutional” actions of the government, in particular what it said that the erosion of the proper procedure in the migrant court system was a procedure from the procedure. “Without them everyone can be snapped together and that feels like Germany of the 1930s. And that's why none of us served.”

Jennifer Ives, a teacher for public school from Germantown, Maryland, belonged to a lot of hundreds that gathered in a small city park from the White House on the morning of May 1st to decipher what she called the attacks by the Trump government on migrant communities.

Ives said it was “difficult to recognize this country” and pointed out the recent deportation of three children, all US citizens, including one with cancer.

Her friend Monica Berlin kept a sign with reading “inhuman callus” and said that the nationwide protests have maintained their mood.

“This is one of the few things we feel better and energetic,” said the 54-year-old account manager for a security company.

Trump received great support from the billionaire class in the run -up to his second term in the run -up to his second term. While Musk issued 288 million US dollars for the election of Trump, Mark Zuckerberg's Meta and Jeff Bezos' Amazon gave both 1 million US dollars for Trump's opening funds and have been in line with the president's agenda since then.

Meta scrapped his American fact program and outdated how political content managed. The Washington Post, which belongs to Bezos, did not provide any confirmation in the last elections and announced an opinion page in February to focus on “personal freedom and free markets”. Meta and Amazon have joined other companies to scale diversity programs. An initiative that Trump used in managers.

In a recent interview with the Atlantic, Trump paid Bezos compliments and said: “He is 100 percent. He was great.” Trump spoke about the owner of Facebook and Instagram and said: “Zuckerberg was great.”

At the beginning of April, demonstrators in all 50 states took to the streets in large and small cities to gather against Trump and his extensive actions. There were more than 1,000 hands of protests, and the organizers estimated that more than half a million people showed rallies.

Demonstrators asked by reporters from USA Today Network stated that they had occurred to combat job cuts in the social security agency and the department for veteran matters. Some wore signs that support transit rights and decipher the economic effects of tariffs. Others gathered to show their opposition to Trump's deportation program, especially after Kilmar Ábrego García in El Salvador was wrongly sent to a maximum security prison.

Before these demonstrations, the press spokesman for the White House, Karoline Leavitt, “Protests, complaints and legal guidance” said the president will not prevent the promises he made to make our federal government more efficient and accountable. “

Trump stopped a rally to Michigan on April 29 to celebrate his first 100 days in office. During his speech, Trump, Medicare and Social Security vowed, and defended his extensive efforts for tariffs, immigration and Doge, which promised much more.

“We have achieved more in three months than most of the administrations in four or eight years,” said the president and added: “We are just starting.”

The events, which are called a strong day in May 2025 and May Day, use the hashtag #maydaystrong and are considered “National Action Day of Action”, which is supported by a coalition of over 250 local organizations.

Groups march on streets, gather in communities, protest at the local level in congress offices, hanging banners and implementation of walk-ins before schools.

The demonstrations of May 1 will also extend over the United States because the organizers indicate that they have planned rallies in Florence, Italy. Paris; And in cities throughout the United Kingdom.

“We are driving back our power of company elites and will not be intimidated by Trump, Musk or her billionaire drivers,” wrote the organizers. “You have ruled for too long. Your time has expired. And the day in May is only the beginning.”

The organizers say they are calling for the protection of medicar and social security, “fully financed schools, healthcare and living space for everyone” and a stopover to keep “attacks on immigrants, black, indigenous, trans people and other communities”.

May Day is a seasonal celebration of spring, which is characterized by parades and bright colors and a day to honor workers who are often shaped by protests and rallies.

With its roots in the pagan tradition, the celebrations extend to the Middle Ages on May when the festivals marked the middle of the spring equinox and the summer solstice. In many parts of the United States on the day of spring on May with Maikpole dances and the shift of flower baskets.

May 1st was associated with the rights of the workers in 1886 when hundreds of thousands of workers in Chicago took part in a strike lasting several days to push an eight -hour working day.

The strikes were violently shaped by bloodshed as clashes between demonstrators and the police. Over half a dozen people were killed and dozens were injured, including May 4, 1886, Rally on the Haymarket Square, where a bomb exploded in a close combat.

In 1889, Labor activists declared international workers' day on May 1st to commemorate the Haymarket affair and the lawyer for employee rights. Today, many nations officially recognize the date as a vacation in South America, Africa, Europe and Asia. In the United States, the efforts to bring the working day from September to the day to a relocation of loading were possibly unsuccessful.

Post: ZAC Anderson, Claire Thornton, Francesca Chambers and Lori Comstock, USA Today Network

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