KEARNEY — A May Day demonstration was held in Kearney during the afternoon of Thursday, May 1.
The protesters were gathered near the busy intersection of 2nd Ave. and 25th St. There were around 200 protesters who gathered for around an hour.
“Hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. and around the world rallied Thursday in May Day protests that united many in anger over President Donald Trump’s agenda from aggressive tariffs that are stoking fears of global economic turmoil to his administration’s immigration crackdowns,” according to an article by the Associated Press.
“In the United States, organizers framed this year’s International Workers’ Day protests as a pushback against what they see as the administration’s sweeping assault on labor protections, diversity initiatives and federal employees,” according to AP.
May Day is also known as International Workers Day. The date was chosen by the American Federation of Labor to commemorate a general strike in the United States, which had begun on 1 May 1886
