Thousands Plan May 1 Marches in US in Heated Election Year
Source: Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — May 1, 2016, 1:47 AM ET
Thousands are expected to rally in cities across the United States on Sunday for immigrant and worker rights and against what they see as hateful presidential campaign rhetoric.
Events are planned in cities from New York to Los Angeles to call for better wages for workers, an end to deportations and support for an Obama administration plan to give work permits to immigrants in the country illegally whose children are American citizens.
Organizers said they will also speak out against hateful rhetoric targeting immigrants, workers and women following remarks by leading Republican presidential contender Donald Trump. Trump has called for a wall on the border with Mexico and chided Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton for playing the so-called "woman card."
"In addition to fighting for workers' rights, we are fighting for our dignity this time around, our self-respect," said Jorge-Mario Cabrera, a spokesman for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles.
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The media underplayed it, as if a sea of people blotting out boulevards as far as the eye could see in city after city wasn't all that unusual. It was wonderful, whole families marching and notably peaceful.
As ABC points out the numbers have dwindled for the annual May 1 (Mexican Labor Day/International Workers Day) marches, but it seems like more will be coming out this year. 
In the late 19th century, May Day was chosen as the date for International Workers' Day by the Socialists and Communists of the Second International to commemorate the Haymarket affair in Chicago. International Workers' Day may also be referred to as "May Day", but it is a different celebration from the traditional May Day.
It's always been ironic to me that a world-wide holiday that began in the US is not known IN the US.