Image: People holding a banner reading ‘No war, no ICE, May 1st general strike’ at a protest in Atlanta, Georgia, on 28 March 2026. Photograph: Elijah Nouvelage/AFP/Getty Images

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Lex McMenamin of the Guardian reports: “Thousands are set to join an economic blackout for International Workers’ Day on Friday, as part of 3,500 “May Day Strong” events across the country. Organizers are calling for “no school, no work, no shopping” with walkouts, marches, block parties and other gatherings planned into the evening.

On the east coast, protests were already under way by the early morning. In Manhattan, a group of Amazon workers, Teamsters and local politicians set off marching from the New York public library’s main branch to Amazon’s nearby corporate offices to demand the corporation cut its contracts with ICE and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In the nation’s capital, protesters with the organization Free DC shut down intersections across the city, holding handmade banners reading “WORKERS OVER BILLIONAIRES” and “HEALTHCARE NOT WARFARE”.

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