International Workers' Day is celebrated with rallies and protests all over the world on May 1, but it's not a big deal in the United States. Back in 2018, Brooke spoke with <a href="http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/history/faculty/donna-haverty-stacke">Donna Haverty-Stacke of Hunter College, CUNY</a> about the American origin of May Day — and about how it has come to be forgotten. The first national turnout for worker's rights in the U.S. was on May 1, 1886; contrary to what you may have heard elsewhere, it wasn't the same thing as the Haymarket Affair. Haverty-Stacke is also author of <a href="https://nyupress.org/books/9780814737057/">America’s Forgotten Holiday: May Day and Nationalism, 1867–1960</a>, and she explains that the fight over May 1, or May Day, is also about the fight for American identity and what it means to be radical and patriotic at the same time. 

 The OTM crew (in 2018) sings "Into The Streets May First," a never-before-professionally-recorded 1935 Aaron Copland anthem:

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