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International Workers Day, May 1, is celebrated by tens of millions of people around the world. Its radical history emerged from the Haymarket Square resistance and the massacre that followed in 1886.
May Day was revived as a workers’ day by the immigrant rights movement in the United States in 2009. As the labor movement continues to blossom in the U.S., more and more people here now recognize International Workers Day, or “May Day.” Thousands of workers joined May Day events around the country this year despite the limitations presented by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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NYC, May 1. Fired Amazon worker Christian Smalls leads a rally in front of Jeff Bezos’s apartment in Manhattan. Liberation photo
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A Hartford family with two young children narrowly avoided losing their home in the middle of this week’s snow storm after community activists rallied to protest their near-eviction by a tax-delinquent, New York landlord.
A proposal to issue fines against vacant storefronts in Hartford roiled the business community downtown, prompting the city councilman behind the idea to take it off the table.
Former GOP gubernatorial candidate Bob Stefanowski ripped into Hartford and its leadership in a national opinion piece Friday, and reactions - pro and con - have poured in since.