Rallies were being held throughout Los Angeles County Monday as part of the nationwide Labor Day effort billed by organizers as “stop the billionaire takeover,” while the Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor Labor Coalition 46th annual Solidarity Parade and Picnic Rally was taking place in Wilmington.

The rallies were organized by May Day Strong, a partnership of various labor, political and environmental organizations that bills itself as “working people rising up to stop the billionaire takeover — not just through the ballot box or the courts, but through building a bigger and stronger movement.”

May Day Strong is calling for:

— Protecting and defending “Medicaid, Social Security, and other programs for working people”;

— “Fully funded schools, and health care and housing for all”;

— “Stop

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