20 years after A Day Without Immigrants, the struggle continues!

Added: 2026-05-06

[00:00:00]20 years ago, there was a general strike on May Day and it started right here in California. 2006, there was a horrible racist piece of legislation called the Sensenbrenner bill. It would make it a felony to be undocumented. But in the face of this attack, immigrants fought back. In April, organizers [music] in Los Angeles announced there'd be a day without immigrants on May Day. [music] No school, no work, no shopping. They would show that immigrants make the society run. Then, on May Day, two and a half million people participated in the general strike. They created so much pressure that the people [music] stopped that racist bill. It wasn't the Democrats that prevented that bill from passing. Before the general strike, 36 of them supported [music] it. It was the millions of people who organized, struck, and made it impossible for them to pass that bill.

[00:00:50]So, this May Day, join us in continuing the fight. When we organize in the millions, we are unstoppable. [music] That's how we make change. And this campaign is part of that movement.

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