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May 1 is historically a day of protest and celebration for working people. On May 1, 1886, thousands of workers calling for the eight-hour-day marched through the streets of Chicago. Today it is celebrated ([link removed]) around the globe as International Workers Day, but this year, in the time of the Trump Administration and unelected billionaire Elon Musk’s attacks on federal workers and others, the day’s events ([link removed]) were imbued with a new sense of urgency. As the Associated Press reports ([link removed]) , “Hundreds of thousands of people in the United States and around the world rallied Thursday in May Day protests that united many in anger over President Donald Trump’s agenda from aggressive tariffs that are stoking fears of global economic turmoil to his
administration’s immigration crackdowns. In the United States, organizers framed this year’s International Workers’ Day protests as a pushback against what they see as the administration’s sweeping assault on labor protections, diversity initiatives, and federal employees.”

I am currently traveling in New York State where I had the chance to attend this year’s Izzy Awards ([link removed]) , named for muckraking journalist I.F. Stone ([link removed]) . The awards annually recognize independent journalists doing the important work of speaking truth to power. I have also had the chance to meet with a number of supporters of The Progressive and hear how our work is being received in communities around the country. This afternoon I will also attend the annual human rights award ceremony ([link removed]) sponsored by the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives and the Puffin Foundation.

This week on our website Henry Redman of the Wisconsin Examiner reports ([link removed]) on the arrest of a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, judge by Trump Administration officials; Ed Rampell reviews ([link removed]) the new films by Alex Gibney on the influence of “Dark Money” in our political system; Nourdine Shnino writes ([link removed]) from Gaza of the tragic story of a Palestinian father’s quest to see his son again; and Michael Ray describes ([link removed]) the struggles with substance abuse faced by inmates in the Ohio prison where he lives. Also, Michaela Brant interviews
([link removed]) Stacy Davis Gates of the Chicago Teachers Union on building resistance through creating coalitions; Jeff Bryant highlights ([link removed]) May Day actions by teachers and others across the country; Karim Sariahmed pens an op-ed ([link removed]) on the threatened cuts to Medicaid and how affected groups are “uniting, across all lines of division, to take back what is being taken away;” and Jus Tavcar opines ([link removed]) on the importance of federal clean energy investments in combating climate change.

Please keep reading, and we will keep bringing you important articles on these and other issues of our time.

Sincerely,
Norman Stockwell
Publisher

P.S. - On May 7, in Madison, Wisconsin, I will be speaking with award winning author Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai about her new volume of poetry The Color of Peace and her two novels drawn from her life as a young woman during the war in Vietnam. The event will take place ([link removed]) at Leopold’s Books and Cafe at 1301 Regent Street and is free and open to the public. It will also be recorded for future viewing.

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