For the past 130 years, workers around the world have gathered on May 1st to defend workers’ rights. While we can’t celebrate May Day in person as a chapter this year, we hope everyone is still staying connected to each other and to the struggle for justice. Join these virtual gatherings to celebrate May Day 2020!
SpeakOut! MAY DAY MESSAGE FROM ANGELA DAVIS
Friday, May 1, 3pm
On this International Workers Day, political activist, scholar, author, and SpeakOut speaker Angela Davis reflects on possible ways forward and what it’s going to take to bring about economic and racial justice. She invites us to reimagine a society that benefits all workers – from low wage earners to workers in the gig economy; from those working remotely to those on the front lines of the pandemic; from artists to incarcerated people.
SYSTEM IN CRISIS: A WORKING-CLASS VISION FOR THE FUTURE
Friday, May 1, 4pm
Celebrate May Day with a discussion from leading labor voices about how we can build a radical working class response to the current crisis. Featuring:
Stacy Davis Gates, VP of the Chicago Teachers Union
Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA
Sarah Jaffe, labor journalist
Register through Eventbrite to receive a link to the stream on the day of the event.
This event is a fundraiser for Haymarket Books and Labor Notes. Haymarket Books is an independent, radical, non-profit publisher. Labor Notes is a media and organizing project that is the voice of union activists who want to put the movement back in the labor movement.
LabourStart VIRTUAL MAY DAY
Friday May 1st (ongoing)
LabourStart is the news and campaigning website of the international trade union movement. LabourStart has organized an online May Day event spanning the globe – in cooperation with the International Trade Union Confederation and the global union federations. This Virtual May Day will feature videos from trade unions around the world — speeches, music and stories from workers’ struggles on every continent.
We are so excited to be honoring Dima Khalidi of Palestine Legal at our 
estine Legal into a 9-person movement lawyering nonprofit that takes the lead from the movement it serves, using the law as one among many tools that can be deployed together to fight injustice. Palestine Legal’s support to activists advocating for Palestinian freedom and resisting widespread efforts to shut them down models a kind of principled advocacy that demands our individual rights of speech and association, and our collective right to join for justice. Dima’s leadership has built an institution that protects the people who are questioning one of the most entrenched of orthodoxies – unquestioning support for Israel and the political ideology of Zionism – and that is committed to building solidarity with and uplifting other movements for social justice. As a leader, Dima is dedicated to supporting others in building their collective power – both inside the organization she directs and outside in the movements she supports. 
