May Day in 2022

May Day Quick Facts - US 2022

AKA Name	International Worker's Day, Labour Day
ℹ HashtagsCompiled on05:14	#MayDay, #MayDay2022
Related Hashtags	#MAY
2022 Date	May 1, 2022
2023 Date	May 1, 2023

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May Day in 2022

May Day marks the halfway point between the first day of Spring and Summer Solstice. This day can be traced back to the days of the Romans as it involved many pagan rituals and ancient customs.

Top X Posts (formerly Tweets) for May Day - in 2022

Updated 05:12

Comrades today is a workers Holiday Rally like Hell Happy May Day to all workers across the globe ‼️ #MayDay @amazonlabor ✊🏽 Message of the day AMAZON recognize the #ALU 🗣 https://t.co/kGA7CjIkFC
— Christian Smalls (@Shut_downAmazon) May 1, 2022

The Salvadoran minister of labor just threatened to arrest workers who plan to march for May Day. By the way, this guy is on the Engel List. https://t.co/CMRMRj6vM6
— Ricardo J. Valencia Ph.D (@ricardovalp) April 28, 2022

Today, May 1, is International Workers' Day! It commemorates the sentencing to death of eight anarchist workers in Chicago who were framed for throwing a bomb at police who attacked a strike demonstration in May 1886 https://t.co/iCVvyOzAfP https://t.co/CbM0Q1lY6U
— Working Class History (@wrkclasshistory) May 1, 2022

This May Day remember August Spies, a Chicago anarchist and labor activist who was convicted of conspiracy in the Haymarket affair. His final words before execution were "The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you are throttling today." https://t.co/yCTcDZqFIA
— Ian Coldwater 📦💥 (@IanColdwater) May 1, 2022

Happy May Day to all. Workers are the backbone of New York. 💪 Today we celebrate the international workers’ movement; our demands for solidarity, worker power, and peace; and the eight-hour workday, first fought for and won by unions and socialists more than a century ago. https://t.co/IvOj3OktZY
— Kristen Gonzalez (@Gonzalez4NY) May 1, 2022

May Day Action for a Living Wage! Meet in front of the fountain at 4pm on Monday ✨ https://t.co/nlpPAoYeTc
— SBU Living Wage Campaign (@sbulivingwage) April 30, 2022

Multiple assaults reported today at the May Day direct action in Seattle, here is aerial footage of ANTIFA assaulting a Christian street preacher in broad daylight https://t.co/IJxYz1PKO7
— Drew Hernandez (@DrewHLive) May 2, 2022

Today, we are celebrating May Day in the celebration of our union brothers, sisters, and siblings unionizing their workplaces at Amazon, Starbucks, and all across the US. Workers of the world unite! https://t.co/muSxNR3iml
— Young Democrats of America (@youngdems) May 1, 2022

New Spreads for Beltane/May Day. One is about where you should focus your inspiration and the other is about spicing up things in the bedroom. Passion spread $15 / Fire Spread $10. DM for readings Enjoy your Beltane if you are celebrating today 🙏 #witchtwt #tarotreader #tarot https://t.co/Ub48hB7ihl
— ShayZ's Tarot Readings Open! (@shay3181) May 1, 2022

1/ May Day, international workers’ day, had US origins in the Eight Hour Day movement that emerged after the Civil War. This Marx had predicted. “The workingmen of Europe feel sure that, as the American War of Independence initiated a new era of ascendancy for the middle class… https://t.co/QmMTZP4maZ
— Thomas Mackaman (@MackamanThomas) April 27, 2022