May Day Strikes Hit Cities Around The Country | HuffPost Latest News

Workers in cities from coast to coast took the day off Monday to hit the streets and protest the Donald Trump administration for what organizers hoped would be the largest May Day demonstration in the U.S. in years.

The mass protest coordinated by labor, immigration and other progressive groups served as another early test of the grassroots momentum against the new White House and its right-wing policies. It came on the heels of a climate march that drew tens of thousands to Washington, D.C., on Saturday.

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#BREAKING #HappeningNow 10,000 marching close down Wilshire Blvd #LosAngeles #ResistLA #MayDay #InternationalWorkersDay #MayDay2017 #resist pic.twitter.com/Sxj1Z5n0tf
SEIU 721 (@SEIU721) May 1, 2017

Backers of the May 1 protests saw the day as an ideal opportunity to challenge the Trump administration over its immigration crackdown. The president has promised to ramp up deportations of undocumented workers, strip federal funding from so-called sanctuary cities, and build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico.

Zeferina Perez, a 59-year-old who came from Mexico two decades ago, said she wanted to show that American businesses cannot function without immigrant labor. She said it stung to see her community vilified on the national stage when immigrants were working hard for meager wages and often exploited to begin with.

We need to demonstrate to everyone that immigrants are important to this country, said Perez, who was passing out protest leaflets in D.C. ahead of Monday. Were willing to take any job that they give us. We only want to work and take care of our families.

Quantina Pringle, a 34-year-old restaurant server, spoke at a workers rally in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of D.C. Pringle called for an end to sexual harassment in the restaurant industry, and a raise in the tipped minimum wage. (Servers in D.C. are paid $2.77 per hour before tips.)

Im here for the people who have to balance their checkbooks off the attitudes of others, said Pringle, who is a member of Restaurant Opportunities Center, a worker group that helped organize the May Day rallies.

Pringle was accompanied by her boss, Imar Hutchins, who owns the Florida Avenue Grill. Hutchins restaurant is typically closed on Mondays, but he said he had shut it down for the day without immigrants in February as a show of solidarity.

I support my workers, Hutchins said. We try to make our restaurant the best place we can for our people.

Police in Portland, Oregon, canceled a permit for a march there and said the demonstration had become a riot after self-described anarchists allegedly set fires and threw objects at cops, who responded by firing what TV-station KGW called non-lethal weapons at demonstrators. A police car was destroyed and windows were smashed. Numerous people been arrested, police said on Twitter .

In California, protesters faced off with local law enforcement on Monday while rallying against the immigration crackdown.

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Alameda County Board of Supervisors shutdown. #NoBanNoWallNoRaids #MayDay2017 pic.twitter.com/TZ3QBtLm1s
Karissa Gerhke (@KarissaGerhke) May 1, 2017