I am in the crowd and the organization I'm involved with had our table in the park (top of the screen in the video), we sell socialist books and buttons.  Books with an anti-imperialist theme.  We meet once a week and hope to have interested some new members today.  We seek to stop exploitation of all kinds.

There are a handful of socialist parties in Seattle and we all had tables and booths in the tree lined crescent path around the grassy area.  The park is where the CHAZ/CHOP was the last time the orange idiot had the nuclear codes.

May day in Seattle in the past has been infested with 'faux' anarchists who are actually members of I.C.E. and such who show up to make trouble.  It is done to give May Day a bad name.  Store windows are broken, and then boarded up with plywood stocked just for the occasion.  The plywood went up within minutes at American Apparel in 2012.  Masked men in designer black flew in, did their thing, and vanished.  I know one of them came up from Oakland, CA.  With at least 1000 people attending, such a thing did not happen this year.  It was a very nice event. 


May Day celebrations began in the 19th century as labor movements commemorated the Haymarket Riot of 1886, when police killed several workers protesting for an eight-hour work day. In later years, May Day celebrations were used as an occasion to protest against wars and promote peace.

Current cultural propaganda describes May Day as a day celebrating the arrival of SPRING.  It was quickly pointed out in our local news today that only a 'minority', 20% they said --- Think that May Day is a day devoted to protest.  AFTER citing the 20%, the announcer took a quick pivot and said, 'What do you think'.

After cleverly making you think as intended.