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MEDIA ADVISORY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 27, 2026
CONTACT: [email protected]
Boulder County Democratic Socialists of America, Labor Council, educators, and community groups to rally for International Workers’ Day
Local unions, elected officials, and advocates will converge downtown in solidarity with workers on May 1 to demand fair wages, immigrant protections, an end to corporate rule, and more.
WHO: Boulder County Democratic Socialists of America, co-organizing alongside the Boulder Area Labor Council, Boulder Valley Education Association, the National Education Association, and local Indivisible organizers. Participating unions and labor partners include the Starbucks Workers United, CWA Local 7799, the Boulder County Employees Union, United Campus Workers Colorado, and UNITE HERE Local 23, with additional union partners expected to join.
WHAT: A public May Day rally marking International Workers’ Day. The program will open with a community gathering and remarks connecting local struggles — a proposed minimum wage rollback, wage cuts for tipped workers, immigration enforcement targeting working families, and inadequate school funding — to the national fight against corporate dominance and executive overreach. From there, a workers’ panel will put the mic in the hands of local union members first, pairing their stories with remarks from elected officials and labor champions.
The rally will close with a practice picket: sign-making, labor songs, chants, and a march onto the sidewalks surrounding the bandshell. Organizers are also answering the call of the national May Day Strong campaign, encouraging Boulder County residents to observe the day with no work and no shopping.
WHEN: Friday, May 1, 2026, 4–6 p.m.
WHERE: Glen Huntington Bandshell, Central Park, Boulder. The event is free and open to the public. Attendees can register at mobilize.us/s/wmOLcM.
WHY: May Day has its roots in the American labor movement. The 1886 general strike for the eight-hour workday, the Haymarket massacre, and the long arc of workers refusing to disappear quietly into the machinery of capital. In Boulder County today, that arc hasn’t straightened:
- Starbucks workers are organizing despite retaliation.
- School staff is fighting for the funding their students deserve.
- Tipped workers are watching legislators move to cut their wages.
- Immigrant workers face an immigration enforcement apparatus that has, in the estimation of co-organizers, become a tool of political intimidation rather than public safety.
The rally positions local grievances within a broader truth the labor movement has understood for well over a century: Workers’ rights are won, collectively, in the open through struggle.
Confirmed elected speakers include former Boulder mayor pro tem and city council member Lauren Folkerts and Rep. Yara Zokaie. Additional speakers are expected to be announced in the days ahead.
“Workers in Boulder County are being squeezed from every direction, with wage cuts hitting everyone from tipped minimum wage workers to teachers to farmworkers,” said Elias Lindgren, Boulder County DSA’s communications coordinator. “Meanwhile, we have an administration that is terrorizing and kidnapping workers in our most vulnerable communities. Every right working people have ever won came through collective action, solidarity, disruption, and by refusing to make it easy for power to ignore us. May Day is not just a celebration but a reminder of what’s actually possible when we force those in power to meet our demands.”
About Boulder County Democratic Socialists of America
Boulder County DSA is a local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, the largest socialist organization in the United States. Boulder County DSA organizes in Boulder and Broomfield counties around labor rights, housing, health care, immigration justice, anti-imperialism, the environment, and democratic accountability.
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