California was built by labor. This May Day let’s reclaim it.

Friends,

Today is May Day—International Workers’ Day—a global celebration born in struggle and sustained by solidarity. It’s a day forged in fire and blood by the labor movement. 

A day that honors the workers who risked everything for the rights we have today: the eight-hour workday, child labor laws, weekends, overtime. 

None of that came from benevolence. None of it came from political parties. It came from strikes, picket lines, and people standing up together.

I’ve been in those fights.

As a former elected leader in my teachers’ union, I’ve watched firsthand what solidarity can do—how it transforms fear into courage and despair into power.

And I’ve also watched the Democratic Party throw that power away.

In California, they’ve spent years selling us out to the same corporate donors who bankroll the GOP. 

They let union-busting tech giants rewrite employment law. They gutted public pensions, ignored farmworkers, and slow-walked protections for gig workers into oblivion.

They didn’t just forget the labor movement—they betrayed it.

That’s why I’m proud to be organizing this campaign for Butch Ware and the Green Party. 

Because this is the only party that doesn’t take corporate money. And the only party that understands workers’ rights and human rights are one and the same.

We believe in building power from the ground up—starting with the people most brutalized by this system, from the agriculture fields of the Central Valley to the refugee camps of Rafah.

Steinbeck wrote: “In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”

May Day isn’t just about labor—it’s about liberation. Everywhere. For everyone.

Chip in now and help us bring this message to every corner of California.

And let’s not forget our history:  

The 1934 West Coast Longshore Strike. The 1965 Delano Grape Strike. The justice-for-janitors campaigns in the ‘90s. Even this week, 55,000 public employee went on strike in L.A.

California has always been the beating heart of worker-led revolution.

And too often, when those fights reached Sacramento, it was Democrats—bought off by the same bosses we were fighting—who stalled, watered down, or sold us out entirely.

That’s why this moment demands something more. 

A party that’s not afraid to take the side of labor—every time. 

We can bring that spirit back. 

But not with Democrats holding the line for Google and BlackRock. Not with Republicans crushing unions in the courts.

If we want a California that honors labor, we need a party that does too. 

We’re building a movement that organizes alongside workers—not over them.

If you’ve had enough of broken promises and corporate puppets, chip in now. This May Day, let’s remember what solidarity can do—and let’s rebuild it together.

In solidarity,

Jason Call
Campaign Manager, Butch Ware for Governor