Protests of the May day: '50501' movement organizes anti-trump demonstrations in us

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Protests after the “50501” movement – short for 50 protests, 50 states, 1 movement – in response to the controversial steps of the Trump government against immigrants and federal workers Pass in the first 100 days Thursday throughout the country.

The numerous people take to the streets in cities, including Los Angeles, New York City and Washington, DC, for May – or International Working Day – to protest against an attack on immigrants, workers and students who exercise their right to expense.

“Trump and his billionaire profits try to create a race on the bottom – about wages, advantages, about the dignity itself,” says the movement of the movement. “This May day we defend ourselves. We are calling for a country that brings our families above their fortune – public schools through private profits, healthcare towards hedge funds, prosperity on the policy of the free market.”

The first protest for the first May day in May on Thursday brought together several causes with chants of “Free Palestine”, signs that read the freedom of the detained Columbia graduates Mahmoud Khalil and the rights of the worker rights: “Trump: Hands from our unions”.

“Trump has the arms and working class who forgot who our enemies are,” said an organizer with the party for socialism and liberation to the large amount that gathered on the New York Union Square. “Our enemies are not international students who organize themselves on their campus. Our enemies are not employees without papers who contribute to their communities who pay taxes and cannot receive services. Our enemies are not employees who work for companies.”

“No-dieser racist, sexist, anti-workers, homophobes, foreign, transthobic system is our enemy,” said the organizer when the crowd cheered as a reaction.

A group of around 150 people marched from the Union Square to Stephen A. Schwarzman building of the New York Public Library, where rallies on the front stairs of the front continued.

Demonstrators sang and cheered when they were Palestinian flags and characters with the inscription “Request people: stop the deportations.” Several speakers spoke about the goal of the government of immigrants and the US financing of Israel for weapons and military equipment, since the civilian fatalities in Gaza continue to increase.

The movement 50501 came from a Reddit forum launched on January 25, which led to a wave of state -wing protests, which was led by basic organizations after Trump's inauguration. What started as an online movement quickly took the street, with at least four main demonstrations in the past four months.

Before the protests of May 19, the youngest came on April 19, as crowds of people in several states in several states to oppose what the organizers describe as President Donald Trump's executive overread, including deportation without proper procedure, the termination of federal authorities and threats of university formation.

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In the city center of Los Angeles, a large number of people gathered against the Trump government against the Trump government and the efforts to improve black and migration behind.

“The real parasites of this country are the billionaires that destroy the institutions of this country,” said Aquilina Soriano Versoza, the founder of the Pilipino Workers Center.

The crowd broke into several chants: “If I say workers, you say! When I say immigrants, say you do! If I say union, you say yes!”

“Enough with the senseless attacks on our brothers and sisters who came to this country to look for a better life,” said Carmen Roberts, Vice President of the SeiU Local 2015, the largest union in California, which represents over half a million long -term care members.

“Let us choose a unit about the division,” she said, adding “Sí, Se Pöede”, Spanish for “yes, it can be done”.

Similar crowds made their way through the streets of Washington, DC, where the wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man from Maryland, who was wrongly deported to El Salvador last month, spoke to demonstrators.

“My husband was illegally arrested, kidnapped and disappeared, thrown away, to die in one of the most dangerous prisons in El Salvador without a mistake,” said Jennifer Vasquez Sura when the amount of shame reacted.

“This pain is indescribable. My children … were left in a silence of the absence of their (father) and they miss him more than anything,” she added. “Stop playing political games with my husband's life.”

The Trump government has taken exceptional measures to take immigration, to put immigration and enforce the enforcement of customs under pressure in order to increase the pace of the arrests of migrants and to advertise mass postponement plans. The latest procedure included the illegal deportation of Abego Garcia. On Tuesday, Trump admitted that he was able to secure the return of Garcia, but refused to do so.

Delia Catalina Ramirez, the daughter of Guatemala immigrants, also spoke to DC demonstrators.

“We understand that this president wants to share us. He wants to compete against each other,” said Ramirez.

“But look around, friends. We are black, we are brown, we are Asian, we are Arabic, we are Muslim, we are Jewish, we are white, we are working class and we are congressmen and say: 'Enough is enough.'”

Ramirez pointed out on mobilization and actions such as the protests of the day in May as “the only thing that will stop fascism”.

“This is how resistance looks,” she said. “You will do your best to share us further. But this is a moment when it doesn't matter whether you come from Colombia, Jamaica, Venezuela, Poland, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, Mexico. When you come from Afghanistan, we all come together now.”

50501 describes itself as “decentralized” and says that all of his events are organized by independent volunteers. Over 1,000 events in communities across the country are listed in a map on his website.

The protests on Thursday are part of a partnership with the group May Day Strong, compared to CNN, co -founder and digital director of the political revolution PAC.

“We will not be available because this administration kidnaps our neighbors, tramples our rights, the judges are imprisoned, people in our marginalized communities harm and transforms the evil project in 2025 into reality. If the government even attacks a person, they attack every American,” said Saay.

The day in May is often a day for protests and civil lawsuits against labor rights, but most Americans do not have the working day, and a protest for the middle of the working week is a difficult offer for mass visit.

“Although it is a weekday, we still expect a large turnout because the American people are committed to defending the rights of their communities,” said Saay. “On May 1st we will deal with our communities and our unions because we know that they would do the same for us.”

The protests come two days after Trump had marked 100 days in office. In this short time he excited the world order by seting up tariffs that threaten global trade. Reduction of the administrative state under the Slapdash cuts of the Department of Government Efficiency; Roll back protection protection for transgender people; and exercise of the executive power with contempt for checks.

Trump's 41% approval assessment is the lowest of the Dwight Eisenhower, which has been returned 100 days ago over six decades ago, for each newly elected president. The approval of Trump's handling of the presidency has been 4 points and 7 points lower than at the end of February since March. Only 22% say that they admit Trump's handling of the job, a new low and about twice as many, emphatically that they are very disapproving (45%).

The first Trump presidency was recorded on the day after the inauguration in January 2017 with immediate mass protests in the form of the women's march. The second time the protests were slower until recently.

The protests “hands out” on Saturday, April 5th, aimed at both Trump and the billionaire Elon Musk in response to what the organizers described as an “hostile takeover” and attacks American rights and freedom. The organizers said they had three demands: “An end to the billionaire takeover and the rampant corruption of the Trump administration; an end to reduce federal funds for medicaid, social security and other programs to which people relate, and an end to attacks on immigrants, trans people and other communities.”

Almost 600,000 people had registered to take part in the events, some of which took place in large cities such as London and Paris, so indivisible, one of the organizations that led the movement. In Washington DC, several democratic congress members, including democratic representatives Jamie Raskin, Ilhan Omar and Maxwell Frost, spoke to the masses to criticize the Trump government.

On Saturday, April 19, the protests “50501” in the USA gathered in a similar disapproval for the actions of the Trump presidency, one of the most important concerns of this protest the emergency of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Maryland -mann, was wrongly deported into an El Salvador prison.

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