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Baltimore: there are ICE agents questioning people in Waverly this morning. Be careful and know your rights.

A group of May Day protesters marched from City Hall to Baltimore's Holocaust Memorial today on their way to meet up with other protest groups downtown. 📸: Jerry Jackson/The Baltimore Banner www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...

Hundreds of protesters hit Baltimore’s streets for May Day marches: ‘This is just amazing’ Story here ---> tinyurl.com/hwu4jsnj

More: #Baltimore #MayDay

Protestors have made it down Light Street and are almost at McKeldin Plaza @thebaltimorebanner.com

Thousands gathered in McKeldin Plaza right now

Lester Spence lecturing on the political lessons of “Dance My Pain Away” www.youtube.com/watch?v=quUS...

Not kidding about the Labor march “thundering” through downtown #Baltimore. So rad. #MayDay

Video of the chant as the Labor march thunders through downtown #Baltimore #MayDay

it's May Day in Baltimore

May Day protesters march from Baltimore's Penn Station down St. Paul Street to join other protest groups at McKeldin Square. 📹: @kaitlinobscura.bsky.social www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...

I’m absolutely blown away by how many people who have shown up at the main rally here in downtown #Baltimore. Might be 10K here. Could be more. I’ve been to Os games with smaller crowds. I’m not even joking about that. Just incredible. #MayDay

Under Trump, Americans are relearning the lesson we learned about the oligarchy during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good.

Find a protest near you this May Day to support the workers that keep America running ❤️‍🔥

#Baltimore and #Maryland, who is joining us at our rally for our Solidarity Feeder March on MAY DAY. 99% vs 1. Find your place among us. We're friendly, I swear!

📣 Migrant justice ✊ Labor power 🍉 Free Palestine 🎓 Hands off higher ed 👊 Smash the billionaires 👶 and bring the kids! 6 feeder marches, one massive May Day rally More info: bmoremayday.org

Anyone know how much she profited on Trump's illegal market manipulation and insider trading scam?

"Partly we... inspire growing numbers by displaying mass turnouts at marches, rallies & town halls. Partly we evidence growing militance & commitment by... escalating civil disobedience via encampments, blockades... occupations, & perhaps most critically, strikes" znetwork.org/znetarticle/...

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did.

Urban Reads Bookstore is a black-owned bookstore that continues to be threatened by white supremacists. This is happening in BALTIMORE. How do we help? Well, join them on a community walk to spread awareness and show up in solidarity for Baltimore and Urban Reads.

I'm attending Indivisible Baltimore's event, “Indivisible Baltimore joins National Day of Protest” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

Just a thought... The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. U.S. Const. art. II, § 4.

From Reagan appointee Judge Wilkinson on the 4th Circuit: “The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order. Further, it claims in essence that because it has

🚨WATCH | The charred bodies of 5 Abu Al-Roos family children—burned alive in a U.S.-Israeli strike on a tent shelter in Gaza’s Al-Mawasi “safe zone.” Their plastic and nylon tents ignited instantly. 15 killed in total, including a child with special needs.

Introducing the Official 50501 Starter Pack! go.bsky.app/A8WgvjQ This is a great way to find your local group, or connect with folks across the People’s Movement. Thanks to one of our CA volunteers for this awesome contribution! 💙

All out for May Day! On May 1st—the international holiday for working people—feeder marches from all over the city will be converging on McKeldin Square downtown for a huge protest against the Trump regime and its billionaire backers. More info @ bmoremayday.org

"Smoke was everywhere. I didn’t think I was gonna make it through the day. I didn’t. I didn’t think one of my men was going to make it past the third day because it was so reactionary and everybody wanted a finger to point." baltimorebeat.com/a-mass-movem...

NEW: Three Maryland institutions signed on to support a lawsuit against the federal government over its revocation of student visas. The University System of Maryland, which includes 12 public universities/centers signed on, but Johns Hopkins did not: www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...

Bike to Work Week is May 12–18, 2025! Held each May across the U.S., this event encourages bicycling and raises awareness about bike safety. Register now at buff.ly/OU8rC1M to join the movement, visit a local pit stop, and pick up your free event shirt.

DO NOT NORMALIZE TRUMP AS PRESIDENT. Pass it on....

Yesterday was incredible. The official count is in — 5.2 million people joined the #HandsOff protest nationwide. So many are asking: what’s next? Mark your calendars: 4/19 is the next nationwide day of protest.

This. ⬇️

let's go. sign up for a march near you: wfpus.org/HandsOff

Join Free State Coalition and @50501activists.bsky.social for peaceful rally on April 5, 2025 at Baltimore City Hall from 12pm – 3pm. Democracy dies in division! Stand United against Opression! One Fight! One Future! #freestatecoalition

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.

Time to boycott Unilever. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Updated piece on Schumer postponing his book talk in Baltimore today on the heels of planned protests via @baltimorebeat.bsky.social baltimorebeat.com/u-s-senator-...

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP. Schumer Fetterman Cortez Masto Durbin King Shaheen Gillibrand Schatz Hassan Peters Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.

Reading about white moderate Dems in House who criticized Rep. Al Green reminds me of MLK's famous lines "I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate" who he viewed as the "greatest stumbling block" to equality www.mediaite.com/politics/hou...

What a photo. Green must be the start of something, not the end.

Republicans are driving the government into a shutdown, begging Democrats for help. This is our FAFO moment and need to be used to stop Trump and Musk’s reckless power grab. No concessions, no appeasement. Use every bit of leverage to shut down their chaos and take back control.

This is fun

We’re partnering w/ a number of groups participating in an #economicblackout THIS Friday, 2/28. Do not spend, if possible. No Starbucks on your way to work. No drinks w/ the coworkers after work. No dining out. No Walmart run. No quick McDonald’s drive-thru hit. Hurt their wallets!

The U.S. broke with European allies and voted alongside Russia on Monday to try to block a U.N. resolution condemning Russia’s war in Ukraine. Regardless, the resolution passed with 93 votes. The U.S. had supported a competing resolution that did not hold Russia accountable for the conflict.