# Mayday, mayday: May 1 2026 protests

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayday-mayday-may-1-2026-protests/1029695>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [May 1, 2026, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayday-mayday-may-1-2026-protests/1029695 "2026-05-01T14:48:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2026, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayday-mayday-may-1-2026-protests/1029695/1 "2026-05-01T14:48:51Z")

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Anybody else going to a protest today and/or on strike?

As most of my work is at home where nobody sees me, about the only effective thing I can do about striking is to not buy anything today; but I am shortly going to head out to a protest.

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**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2026, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayday-mayday-may-1-2026-protests/1029695/2 "2026-05-02T02:24:48Z")

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I took a vacation day (highly unusual), and hung around the house. Doubt it did any good, but it didn’t hurt.

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**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2026, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mayday-mayday-may-1-2026-protests/1029695/3 "2026-05-02T16:55:51Z")

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We listened to speeches and then marched around several blocks waving signs and chanting; herded carefully by quite a few marshals along what must have been a route approved by the city, as while most of the time we were on sidewalks or bike lanes some of the time we were in the street.

No hecklers, and a number of various signs of approval. Downtown Geneva, NY seemed pretty quiet; but I don’t know how busy they usually are on a midday Friday.

News coverage of this day in general, while not nonexistent, seems to me to be somewhat scanty; but I haven’t checked a lot of sites.