Photo Gallery: May Day Protest on Cap Hill
On May Day, Denver hit the streets, loud, unafraid, and united in protest against fear, detention, and exploitation. They came with signs, songs, and stories. Workers. Mothers. Students. Dreamers. Shoulder to shoulder, they filled the Capitol steps and poured into the streets, not in anger alone, but in unwavering love for their communities and each other.
May Day has always been about more than labor. This year, it became a protest in its purest form; a collective defiance against injustice, against fear, against policies that treat human beings as problems to be removed. It was a day for the voiceless to be heard, for those pushed to the margins to take the center.
They marched not just for rights on paper, but for dignity in daily life. For the right to work without threat. To live without ICE raids. To speak without retaliation. The chants rang out like hymns: “The people united will never be defeated.” And at least for one radiant and powerful afternoon in Denver, they weren’t just words. They were truth.
This was protest as ritual. Protest as resistance. Protest as love.
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Walk through the gallery below, and feel the power of unity in motion, faces lit with courage, hands held high, and hearts beating together.
Photos by @zhartmanphotography | zhartmanphotography.com
