Our fifth annual Youngstown May Day Festival was held April 26-27, 2025.

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Highlights included:

 

The  Mahoning Trumbull Workers Memorial Ceremony honoring workers fallen on the jobsite, a ceremony co-sponsored by the Workers United and the AFL-CIO. 

 

The weekend’s speakers and roundtables included: Our “101” workshops include an Intro to Grassroots Activism, Immigration Defense NOW, a panel on Progressive electoral strategy, and an introduction to conscious living practices. We also welcomed back our beloved speaker Sean Posey, and a talk on the problem with school vouchers and democracy.

 

The event included crafts for young and old including making mini Maypoles, rainbow wind chimes, community mural paintings, a zine making workshop and a special workshop on blackout poetry.

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Music included We Are Pirates, Crash the Great, Tim Raridon, Jonathan Blackshirt, Danny McMaster, Indig0Forest, Emotional Labor, Tay'larrae, Tom Cvetkovich, and Black Wolf & the Thief.