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Council hears May Day remarks calling for worker solidarity, services for immigrant and trans communities
Summary
Elected officials and community leaders used the meeting to mark May Day, calling for labor solidarity and resources for immigrant, trans and low-income residents; speakers urged funding and policy support for shelter, mental-health services and a Trans Latina initiative.
Councilmembers and community advocates used the May agenda to mark May Day and to press the City of Los Angeles to deepen support for workers, immigrants and transgender communities.
Councilmember Soto Martínez (as identified in the transcript) and Councilmember Eunice Hernández introduced speakers who framed May Day as a day of labor solidarity rooted in the 1886 Chicago movement and in later local immigrant and labor actions. Several speakers said they marched the previous day and urged continued organizing “until every worker has a living…
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