Amie here. Busy week for protests and rallies—there’s Workers Memorial Day events happening, plus May Day rallies and strikes and teacher walk-ins and walkouts!

In this issue: Candidate events and protests, this week’s viral post, and reader soundoff.

Candidates to meet this week include Josh Turek, Zach Wahls, Lindsay James, Sarah Trone Garriott, and Zach Lahn. See times and dates here.

Featured protests and rallies:

One Des Moines worker is so fed up with the broken healthcare system in the United States that he’s moving to Germany.

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