May Day and Trump's First 100 Days

Build the Resistance Newsletter #3

Dear Friends,

Yesterday, April 29th, marked Trump’s 100th day in office. It also marked Trump’s latest victory — becoming once again the least popular president in recent history. In the past 80 years, only two presidents have polled approval ratings as low as Trump has during his first 100 days — Trump 2017 and Trump 2025.

While we celebrate that so many of us can see through his lies and are able to assign blame where blame is due, let us use that momentum to carry us into a day of action this Thursday.

Since 1886, the 1st of May has long been considered a day to celebrate workers. Chosen to commemorate a general strike in the United States which began May 1st, the day reminds us that worker’s rights have long been an American value. The original rally began peacefully with workers striking for the right for an eight hour work day and ended tragically on May 4th after a bombing. This lesson serves as a valuable reminder that we must be the ones to take and secure our rights.

A late 19th century May Day protest

This year, May Day Strong will mark our collective response to Trump, Musk and their fellow profiteers attempts to strip back our rights, deny us our earned benefits, and rob us of our dignity as workers. The ongoing attacks on labor rights, unions, and immigrants are full fledged war on the working people and we will not back day.

On May Day we are standing united, demonstrating firsthand that we are the many and they are the few. We are reclaiming our power form corporate elites and building a world where every family has housing, healthcare, fair wages, union protection, and safety. Find the nearest event to you and stop the billionaire takeover.

We are open-sourced and volunteer-run — your submissions to our databases are the fuel for this people-powered engine. Keep ‘em comin!

Into the streets May First! (1934)

by Alfred Hayes

Into the streets May First!

Into the roaring Square!

Shake the midtown towers!

Shatter the downtown air!

Come with a storm of banners,

Come with an earthquake tread,

Bells, hurl out of your belfries,

Red flag, leap out your red!

Out of the shops and factories,

Up with the sickle and hammer,

Comrades, these are our tools,

A song and a banner!

Roll song, from the sea of our hearts,

Banner, leap and be free;

Song and banner together,

Down with the bourgeoisie!

Sweep the big city, march forward,

The day is a barricade;

We hurl the bright bomb of the sun,

The moon like a hand grenade.

Pour forth like a second flood!

Thunder the alps of the air!

Subways are roaring our millions –

Comrades, into the square!