Take to the Streets on May Day, San Diego!

A guide to where, when, and who for local protests and Thursday & Saturday

A dozen rallies and marches await your participation locally, as part of more than 1100 protests in nearly 1000 cities across all 50 states.

The urgency is real as our democracy is eroding rapidly, with Donald Trump trying to consolidate his one-man rule.

The signs are all around us, from the Oklahoma family terrorized and left penniless by nameless thugs claiming to have secured a warrant, to the deployment at the border of the military in artificially created special zones to the ham-fisted threats being made, to our neighbors and countries that now consider us to be former allies.

Oh, and our economy is about to go to shit, inflation will rise, people will lose their livelihoods, and stores will have limited inventories. It’s important to remember that the “so-called” liberation day was just a month ago; shipping goods from overseas normally takes about six weeks.

It’s wishful thinking to believe that we’ve seen the worst of it. Trump and his minions hear and see what they want to believe, it’s the rest of America that awaits the opportunity to build something better.

It’s becoming increasingly clear that the individual and collective acts of protests and defiance are the only force strong enough to counter this major assault on the rule of law, on our government institutions, on civil society, on the international order.

The morally hollowed out political creatures who seem to think that a strongly worded letter will do the trick are being replaced by cosplaying resistance wannabe leaders who have nothing to sell other than returning to what once was.

Any so-called resistance that doesn’t put the oligarchy as the source of our political, social, and economic problem has zero chance of success. Trump and his ilk exist due to the ultra-ultra rich, who view his peccadilloes and noise as opening act entertainment.

At the beginning of May and the end of Trump’s first hundred days in office, we must make our voices loud enough to break through the noises seeking to trivialize resistance to the erosion of our rights. As we chant Hands Off! & No More Cuts! & Fight Back! in the streets and green spaces of our country, more people will join, more people will throw sand in the gears, and more people will learn the power of collective action.

“I run the country and the world,” Trump bragged recently to The Atlantic. The Canadians just told him to fuck off. Let’s amplify that message. When people act together we, as FDR once said, “can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could even hope to bring about.”

San Diego Resistance Calendar

I published a day early this week because of all the events on MayDay.Normally this is posted on Thursdays at Words & Deeds and The Jumping Off Place

I do my best to alert readers to events as fast as I learn of them. If you hear or know of something, let me know: shoot me an email, message me on Facebook, or leave a comment on this post.

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Thursday

5/1- Union Pickets, March & Rally (The Big One)

• 8AM — Health care workers picket at Hillcrest UCSD Medical Center

• 10AM — March to Balboa Park (6th & Laurel)

• 11:30AM — Rally in Balboa Park with union members, allies, and community supporters as workers on the frontlines of the labor movement share their stories. RSVP

5/1 - National Law Day of Action - U.S. Courthouse• 333 W Broadway, Noon- 1pm. Law Day takes on special significance as Americans’ concerns about due process come to the forefront. Many lawyers will repeat their oath of allegiance to the Constitution.
5/1 - Chicano Park, Community Self Defense Coalition Rally at 4pm March at 5:20pm. Education, not deportation! Abolish ICE!
5/1 - We Can't Wait! 8-9am, Picket for Fully Staffed, Stable and Inclusive Schools,
Lincoln High School, Mountain View School, National Education Assn Event PLUS SDEA Pickets at San Diego Schools all week.
5/1 - Carlsbad/Oceanside Picket, Corner of Pine Ave & Carlsbad Blvd, 4pm, Organized by DEMCCO
5/1 - El Cajon Mayday National Day of Action - 11am - 1:30pm, Corner of Magnolia and Fletcher Pkwy
5/1 - San Marcos Mayday National Day of Action- 3-4:30pm, Grand Ave & San Marcos Blvd
5/1 - El Centro Mayday Strong, 11am-1pm, 1537 Main Street
5/1 - May Day Strong Rally with SURJ in solidarity with SDEA, 7:30-8:30am. Patrick Henry High

Friday

5/2 - Issa Hold a Town Hall Escondido, 10:30 - 11:30am
5/2 - What’s the Plan? A Weekly Discussion with Indivisible’s Co-Founders. Noon.
Virtual event, Registration
5/2 - Civic Sundays: Truth Bomb Briefing with Johanna Siegmann, 2pm (Virtual) Truth Bombs are a simple new, non-confrontational, social-media-based tool to fight disinformation.

Saturday

5/3 - Unite for Climate March Waterfront Park. 11am-2pm, Organized by San Diego 350 and over 40 community organizations.
5/3 - Oceanside Mayday Day of Action, N. Coast Hwy & Pier View Way (Civic Center) 10am
5/3 - Rancho Bernardo Rally for our Rights - 16770 Bernardo Center Dr 11am -12:30pm by Indivisible North County
5/3 - Temecula Duck Pond MAYDAY 10am-noon 28250 Ynez Rd. Temecula RSVP
5/3 - Tesla Takedown,11am. Otay Ranch Town Center Chula Vista Indivisible event.
5/3 - Tesla Takedown, La Jolla 4545 La Jolla Village Dr., 1pm Rise of the Resistance Event
5/3 - San Diego City Works Press, 20th Anniversary Book Release Party for Sunshine Noir III, w/ a special guest chapter from the guy who posts this blog, Central Cultural de la Raza 2004 Park Blvd, 5-8pm

Sunday

5/4 - Picket - Blue Corner Group, Poway 11am-12:30 pm Poway and Community Roads
5/4 - Peaceful Protest - At the Kook Statue, Encinitas - Noon-2pm
5/4 - Support Ukraine Rally at Balboa Park 2-4pm El Cid Statue
5/4 - Ramona Resist Protest 11-am-1pm, 10th and Main streets.
5/4 - Democracy Corner Sign Waving, in front of the Islands restaurant on Otay Lakes Road. Noon-1pm Chula Vista (yay!) Indivisible event.

Monday

5/5 - Defending Democracy Discussion Group (League of Women Voters) (Virtual) 5:30-6:30pm Zoom Meeting ID: 865 0396 6768 Passcode: 710390

Tuesday

5/6 - Demonstrate for our Democracy, 4:30-6:30pm, Corner of Mira Mesa Blvd & Westwood Pkwy Black Mountain Democrats

Wednesday

5/7 - Community Health & Resource Fair 10am-3pm, Jackie Robinson Family YMCA
151 YMCA Way, San Diego.

Thursday

5 /8 - Immigration & Deportation Meeting 9-11am (Virtual) League of Women Voters
5/8 - Weekly El Cajon Darrell Issa Rally 11am-1pm, Parkway Plaza 415 Fletcher Pkwy

Friday

5 /9 - No Kings Now or Then, 1-2:30pm (PDT) (Virtual) Speakers: Historian and political writer Heather Cox Richardson, Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell, Representative Jamie Raskin

Upcoming Events

5/17 - CTA Fight for Schools Rally, Roosevelt Middle School, 11am INFO

5/31 - Vision 2025 Community Summit 10a - 4p Southwestern College 900 Otay Lakes Rd, Chula Vista by Community Advocates for Just and Moral Governance (MoGo)

***Click HERE or HERE for more upcoming events.

Notice: There will be no Events Calendar on May 8.

I’ll be out of town.