May Day

We, the 50th Chicano Moratorium Committee, representing the Chicano/Mexicano/Latino communities in Los Angeles, California, declare our support and sponsorship for the May 1st action planned at 11 a.m. starting on Olympic & Broadway Blvd. in DTLA, as the historic route to L.A. City Hall since “A Day Without Immigrants & The Great American Boycott” in 2006. 

As we continue to commemorate, protest, and demonstrate our traditional days of unity, such as the August 29, 1970 Chicano Moratorium anti-war protest in E.L.A., we honor May Day of each year by recognizing an international day of worker struggle for an 8-hour work day. May Day commenced over a century ago to honor the fight for an 8-hour work day in the U.S.A., where workers were murdered during protests while organizing in Chicago, Illinois.

Our communities are built and sustained by working families, now called the “essential workers”, and we are made up of multi-cultural & multi-generational humans that arrive from all directions on Earth. The Chicano/Mexicano/Latino populations consist of contributors to our society, whether documented and/or undocumented, and we recognize the right to garner citizenship, or not, through our labor value and historic presence in these lands.

The current debates/political divisions on immigration reform in the U.S., on the heels of the traumatic abuse of families, children, and refugees at the southern border by “Homeland Security” forces, directly affects our communities by demonizing our presence and blaming our families for economic, health, and social/political challenges throughout the U.S. states. 

We join in unity this May Day 2021, to support the proposed “U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021”, as a starting point in resolving the tragedies of separating families, abusing children in concentration camps, ending mass deportations, and for immediate legalization and family unity for all.