(The Center Square) – Billionaire greed and government corruption are focal points of Labor Day weekend rallies scheduled across North Carolina.
Workers Over Billionaires will be staged in Franklin and Pittsboro on Friday evening. Twenty-two more locations are lined up on Monday.
Organizers say local labor unions, community organizations, immigrants, educators and working families will gather in what is part of the more than 1,000 events across the country.
On its website, May Day Strong pushes protection of Medicaid and Social Security; “fully funded schools, and health care and housing for all”; to “stop attacks on immigrants, Black, indigenous, trans people, and all our communities”; and “invest in people not wars.” The group’s name draws from International Workers Day, and support is through some unions and political organizations.
A release says in part, “The May Day Strong Coalition is organizing over 1,000 events nationwide to reject the billionaire takeover of government and stand up for working people. This year, it’s more than just traditional barbecues – it’s a fight for democracy, fully funded schools, health care for all, and to defend against attacks on workers’ rights, immigrant families, and Black and brown communities.”
The nearly two dozen sites on Monday are in Hayesville, Bryson City, Asheville, Burnsville, Mount Airy, Lenoir, Huntersville, Monroe, Salisbury, Lexington, Winston-Salem, Greensboro, Hillsborough, Durham, Chapel Hill, Morrisville, Raleigh, Southern Pines, Sanford, Fayetteville, Wilmington and Old Fort.
Another event, Labor in the Pulpit, is in Williamston on Sunday morning.
