VCPL calls on everyone to join the May Day rally at Battery Park in Burlington at 6pm. We will have a speaker at the rally encouraging unions to endorse Apartheid Free Community and join the struggle for Palestinian liberation. We will have a table with fliers to hand out to rank and file trade unionists.

May Day, the international workers holiday, commemorates the strike for the 8 hour day in 1886. Police responded by brutally crushing the protest in Chicago, arresting its leaders, and sentencing 8 workers to death.

This May Day, we will honor those martyrs and the tens of thousands in Gaza, by calling on Vermont workers to support Palestinian trade unions’ call for solidarity with their struggle for liberation. There will be live music by local bands and free food provided by People’s Kitchen. See you at the rally! Free Palestine From the River to the Sea!