An analysis of this years May Day demo in Olympia, Washington.
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#Portland #MayDay When Riot Cops Attack: Repression & Solidarity
Events like May Day are a temperature check for the collective hive mind of the left reflecting on the year behind them. Because it is a tradition that skates back more than a hundred years, it rarely stands out as the most pressing of days, mainly because it is part of a regular organizing cycle. Good years or bad losses, May Day comes on the same day.
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#MayDay: #BlackBloc Activists Clashed With Police in #Portland
In Portland, Oregan Black Bloc activists clashed with police during this years May Day protests.
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#Minneapolis: Anti-War Committee Protects Fascist Trump Supporter at #MayDay March
At the International Worker’s and Immigrants Rights Day march in Minneapolis, “security” (protest marshals, aka peace police) was provided by a variety of leftist organizations. Among them, the Anti-War Committee. During the march, a man in a black bomber jacket that said “Polizei” on the back and was wearing a black “Make America Great Again” hat. He and a friend with long brown hair, glasses, and a brown jacket, were taking pictures of people in the march and taunting them.
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Reportback #MayDay 2017 March in Santa Cruz #CA
A family that lives in the Beach Flats led the march with a child’s sign proclaiming, “Fuera Trump! Viva La Raza! Viva Los Trabajadores!”
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Heavy Clashes During #MayDay in #Paris
This years May Day demo was much bigger than in the previous years. According to the cops 30.000 people joined the demo, organising CGT stated that 80.000 people joined. At the front of the demo there was a black bloc with more than 1.000 people.
#Mayday in #Wuppertal, #Germany: Autonomous Demo & Schusterplatz-Streetparty Kettled After Police Violence
This year the 31th edition of the yearly autonomous May Day demonstration took place in Wuppertal, Germany. At the end of the demonstration the front group of the demo was kettled, a few people were detained and some were subject of police violence. The streetparty at Schusterplatz was also kettled for a while.
#Mayday: The Bay Shut Down ICE, The Ports & the Streets!
Thousands of workers, trade unionists and youth protested SF ICE and the ILWU shutdown the bay area ports. Rallies were held throughout San Francisco and other cities in the Bay area.
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“If necessary #Marien41 Will be Occupied 41 Times – Hands Off #CityPlaza & #Friedel54!”
Wuppertal, Germany: For a District Social- and Refugee Welcome Center at Marien Street 41
Solidarity with City Plaza in Athens and all other squats on the planet! Friedel 54 in Berlin will stay! Take the streets for an autonomous May Day!
Today, the 30th of April we did a small action in front of the building at Marien street 41 to create awareness of the many empty buildings at the Ölberg district and the repression against self-organised housing projects. It was an action in front of the building. Still.
Image: Small action in front of Marien 41 in Wuppertal, Germany earlier today.
