# Event Details

- **Event Name**: May Day and the Commons
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 30 Apr, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Thu, 30 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Historian Peter Linebaugh gives a lecture in honor of May DayAbout this EventOur May Day began in America. From the May pole dance with indigenous folk at Merry Mount, Massachusetts, in 1627, to Chicago’s police riots in 1886 at Haymarket Square against advocates of the eight-hour day, May Day has given us both green and red themes to celebrate. Suppose we paused to think of each of these stories as history’s seeds that have yet to reach their maturity? Conquest and settlement were accomplished with means of mechanization.  On May Day, whether as a story of Puritanical expropriation from earthly subsistence or as a story of gilded age exploitation of immigrant wage-slaves, we may easily find contemporary themes related to the extractions and extinctions of our own time. May Day celebrates the green and red struggle of workers across the planet who cry for health and wealth, common wealth.  Registration on EventBrite is required. However, an EventBrite ticket does not guarantee entry as this is a first-come-first-served free event.Peter Linebaugh was born in Washington, D.C. in 1942, the year the Nazis launched the V-2 rocket. He became an anti-fascist, and grew up in London, Cattaraugus, Muskogee, Karachi, and New York. He became a historian under the eloquent peacenik and labor historian, E.P. Thompson. He has written books such as The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day, The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century, and The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/new-york/may-day-and-the-commons/100001982825745180
- **Event Categories**: health-wellness
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: New York
- **state**: NY
- **country**: United States
- **location**: The Great Hall at The Cooper Union
- **lat**: 40.7289152
- **long**: -73.9903084
- **full address**: The Great Hall at The Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street, New York, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is May Day and the Commons being held?
  - **A:** May Day and the Commons takes place on Thu, 30 Apr, 2026 at 06:30 pm to Thu, 30 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 pm at The Great Hall at The Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street, New York, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing May Day and the Commons?
  - **A:** May Day and the Commons is organized by Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art.

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