Thursday, May 1
12:00 pm
Indiana Statehouse
200 W. Washington St.
The Trump administration and the billionaire ruling class are pushing an aggressive agenda aimed at dismantling workers’ rights—slashing federal union bargaining, accelerating automation without protections, and using divide-and-conquer tactics to keep us disorganized and disempowered.
May Day is a time to take to the streets and say: Power belongs to the working class. Our labor keeps society running. And the ultra-rich know that and fear our collective power. We will not stand by while our rights, livelihoods, and futures are stripped away.
Life is getting harder for working people. A study by the Commonwealth Fund found that the United States has the highest mortality rate among wealthy countries, with figures that tower over countries like Chile at 14.3, South Korea at 8.8, and the U.K. at 5.5 per 100,000 live births. A tiny handful of millionaires and billionaires continue to hoard society’s wealth, while politicians in their pockets scapegoat environmental regulations and immigrants for job losses and economic decline. While Republicans enact this rightwing billionaire agenda, the Democrats do nothing to stop them. Meanwhile, the real damage is being done behind closed doors. In just the first four months of this year:
- The Department of Education has been dismantled.
- Union contracts face termination by executive order, threatening the right to organize across the workforce.
- The Department of Health and Human Services is laying off thousands.
- The 1798 Alien Enemies Act—once used to justify Japanese internment—has been invoked to accelerate deportations.
- for the first time in 81 years, the U.S. denied Mexico’s request to supply water from the Colorado River to Tijuana, causing Mexico to be unable to complete its usual water deliveries to the U.S.
- Over 500 NIH research grants have been canceled, slashing $2 billion in funding, part of a broader attack on DEI, trans rights, and academic freedom.
All these injustices have a common root: political and economic power is held by a tiny handful of millionaires and billionaires utilizing the Republican and Democrat parties.
May Day was born from the struggle to end exploitation and oppression in all its forms. That fight continues. This year, it’s more urgent than ever, so show up and show out with us on May Day at the City-County Building. Let’s remind the billionaires: there are more of us than there are of them—and without us, nothing works.