Question

What do we celebrate on May 1st? Why is this important (especially for immigrant communities and workers)?

Answer 1

“Most Americans know May 1 as a celebration of spring, but few realize May Day is also Labor Day, a global holiday that commemorates the working class and organized labor around the world”

Answer 2

May 1 was chosen to be International Workers' Day to commemorate the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago. In that year beginning on 1 May, there was a general strike for the eight-hour workday. On 4 May, the police acted to disperse a public assembly in support of the strike when an unidentified person threw a bomb.

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