FLAGSTAFF — Protesters took their positions again in front of Flagstaff City Hall during the May Day Strong Protest on Thursday, May 1, 2025. KAFF News reported that organizers had expected more than 1,200 protesters to attend the event, which was held between 4 and 6 p.m.. However, those attending said that number was exceeded at the peak of the event.
Video courtesy of Jake Bacon of the Arizona Daily Sun appearing on Women’s March Flagstaff showed protesters with signs crowding the corner of the Flagstaff City Hall and stretching down the street.
The Flagstaff protest was part of a national event organized by Indivisible Northern AZ, and co-sponsored by locally by AZ LD7 Democrats, Arizona List, AZ Students Association, Catch Fire, Coconino County Democratic Party, FLAGPAC, and Women’s March Flagstaff.
In Arizona alone, more than 26 other May Day demonstrations were planned, including an event a Jameson Memorial Park in Sedona.
Workers across the United States gathered to demand a country that puts our families over their fortunes—public schools over private profits, healthcare over hedge funds, housing over homelessness, organizers said.
May 1 is International Workers’ Day, or Labor Day, throughout the world – except in the United States. It was the date of the 1886 general strike called by the American Federation of Labor.
KAFF news reported that “Participants held signs reading ‘Invest in People, Not Cuts,’ ‘Support Work, Labor Unions, Bring Dignity to Working Families,’ ‘Equality Harms No One,’ and ‘The Environment is Bipartisan,’ as chants echoed through downtown streets. The demonstration reflected a growing national movement demanding that government budgets prioritize people over profits and protect the most vulnerable.”
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