Bernie Sanders joins May Day protesters in Philly to rally for workers and immigrants, and against Trump
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
Updated May 1, 2025, 7:58 p.m. ET | Published May 1, 2025, 6:18 p.m. ET
Railing against “tax breaks for billionaires” and issuing a warning to Pennsylvania lawmakers, Sen. Bernie Sanders delivered a firebrand speech Thursday afternoon to a crowd clustered outside City Hall.
On a day of national May Day protests against President Donald Trump’s administration that ended with the arrest of dozens of protesters a few blocks from City Hall, the 83-year-old former presidential candidate said: “The American people by the millions are saying no to oligarchy, no to Trump’s authoritarianism.”
After his speech, several hundred marched north on Broad Street, and some of them sat down at Broad and Vine Streets, chanting: “We shall not be moved.” After being warned that they would be subject to arrest, 70, according to police, were led away in handcuffs and charged with obstruction of a highway. They were shouting: “We are the union, the mighty, mighty union.”
The demonstration came at the end of daylong protest events held in several locations around the region, and hundreds around the nation, many organized online under the hashtags #buildtheresistance and #50501, which stands for 50 protests, 50 states, one day. The gatherings in Philadelphia and elsewhere took aim at a variety of issues, including the administration’s aggressive immigration policies and workers’ rights, but the leitmotif was what the protesters viewed as Trump’s threats to democracy.
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