Tag: May Day in Chicago

NOVANEWS By Seth Acre On May Day 2017 thousands of people marched through downtown Chicago in a simultaneous protest and celebration. Organizers estimate that the march drew over twenty thousand people into the streets. The march began with a rally at Union Park and wound its way through the rainy streets of the Chicago Loop before ending at Daley Plaza. The march brought together people from many different communities and struggles, including the movement for Black lives, the Fight for Fifteen, and the Chicago Teachers Union, but the primary focus of the march was resistance to the Trump regime’s war on immigrants. The crowd chanted in both Spanish and English during the march as immigrants and their allies stood together to oppose the increasingly vicious attacks on immigrant communi...