Listen: May Day Preview!

May Day is upon us—get out into the streets!

By Bob Hennelly

On the latest episode of WBAI’s "What’s Going On?” we preview multiple May Day events scheduled for our region to protest the first 100 days on the Trump/ Musk junta attack on democracy, union rights, our immigrant families, Medicaid, Social Security and public education. 

We get a preview from Mia McDonald, CWA District 1’s deputy director of legislative affairs on the massive May Day rally and march sponsored by over 50 unions and aligned community groups as well as by the New York City Central Labor Council at 5 p.m. at Foley Square.

In the second half of the show we hear from Jun Chang and Aaron Liu who discuss the noon May 1, protest highlighting the barbaric practice of 24-hour workdays for women of color home care workers who only get paid for about half the time they work. Liu and Chang also talk about why they oppose Mayor Adams and Speaker Adams “City of Yes” saying that it surrenders the public interest to the real estate industry that currently owns our politics.

We close out with a conversation with Mary Ann Trasciatti, president of the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition and director of Hofstra University’s Labor Studies about the radical roots of May Day and why we are seeing a resurgence in the face of Trump’s authoritarian rule.

Listen to the entire show below: