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'Workers Over Billionaires': Over 3,000 Events Planned for May Day Across US
"The American people are done grinding to get by while our tax dollars fund wars abroad and concentration camps at home."
Apr 23, 2026
A broad coalition of organizations is banding together to stage thousands of planned May Day events across the US based around the theme of building an economy for "workers over billionaires."
May Day Strong, an initiative anchored by 500 labor and community organizations, is set to host more than 3,000 events throughout the country to demand higher taxes on the wealthiest Americans, an end to US Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the war with Iran, and an expansion of democracy over corporate rule.
Organizers of the events are asking participants to refrain from engaging in any economic activity on May 1, which means "no work, no school, no shopping." This particular action was inspired by the one-day general strike that residents of Minneapolis waged in January to protest against the occupy of their city by federal immigration enforcement officers.
Flagship demonstrations will be held in major US cities from coast to coast, with thousands of smaller events scheduled to take place in all 50 states.
Neidi Dominguez, executive director of Organized Power in Numbers, said the rallies are being organized to ensure "our tax dollars going to good jobs, schools, and housing, not to sending federal agents into our cities to attack our neighbors."
Rebecca Winter, executive director of Mass 50501, framed the events as a way for Americans to exert economic leverage to protest injustice.
"The American people are done grinding to get by while our tax dollars fund wars abroad and concentration camps at home,” said Winter. “We pay more for everything while those in power cash in. On May 1, we hit back with our wallets—no work, no school, no shopping. We the people are the economy, and we decide when it stops."
Greg Nammacher, president of Minnesota-based Service Employees International Union Local 26, drew on the Minneapolis experience to explain what the May Day protests are trying to achieve.
"In January in Minnesota this year we experienced the power when community and workers act together to defend our rights and shared values," Nammacher said. "This May Day is a chance for us locally, and nationally, to build on those lessons: We are ready to fight to protect our families and our cities from the billionaire agenda of division and hate."
Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), said the protests would also highlight inhumane US immigration policies and demand a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
"On May Day, we rise because worker justice is immigrant justice," Salas said. "It's been 40 years since the last time this nation recognized the contributions of immigrants by approving a pathway to citizenship. And it's been 20 years since La Gran Marcha—when millions of people took to the streets to reject exclusion, racism, and criminalization of immigrant communities—and we are still facing the same forces, especially under the Trump administration."
Braxton Winston, president of the North Carolina State AFL-CIO, described the demonstrations as a good way to bring new people into the movement and strengthen future actions.
"Now is the time to build coalitions between unorganized workers, unions, and community members for mass actions to disrupt the well-organized, joint efforts of corporations and the White House to exploit American workers," Winston said. "The actions we take on International Workers Day are about building the political, social, community, and labor coalitions needed to disrupt the status quo. The power we flex this May Day will fuel our unwavering commitment to building a bigger, more effective, unified labor movement to win victories for working families."
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'ICE Out for Good': Weekend Rallies Nationwide After Killing of Renee Good
"They have literally started killing us—enough is enough," said one campaigner.
Jan 09, 2026
Progressive advocacy groups are set to lead nationwide rallies this weekend to protest Wednesday's killing of Renee Good by an immigration officer in Minneapolis and the Trump administration's wider deadly mass deportation campaign.
Groups including 50501 Movement, Indivisible, the Disappeared in America campaign, MoveOn, the ACLU, Voto Latino, and United We Dream are planning demonstrations across the country to protest the killing of Good and what Indivisible called the "broader pattern of unchecked violence and abuse carried out by federal immigration enforcement agencies against members of our communities."
More details about the events, including a growing list of demonstrations and rallies, is available here.
According to organizers, the goal of the weekend demonstrations will be to:
- Honor and humanize the lives taken by ICE
- Demand accountability, transparency, and an immediate investigation into the killing of Renee Nicole Good
- Expose the broader pattern of ICE violence, including deaths in detention
- Call for ICE to leave our communities
- Build public pressure on elected officials and federal agencies
- Create space for grief, solidarity, and collective action
- Strengthen local connections and neighborhood response system
Good, a US citizen, was shot multiple times by veteran Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation officer Jonathan Ross on Wednesday while driving in south Minneapolis. Bystander video shows Good slowly maneuvering a Honda Pilot SUV in an apparent effort to drive away from officers when Ross draws his pistol and fires at her head.
President Donald Trump and senior members of his administration quickly spread lies about Good, with the president saying she "ran over" Ross and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and others accusing the 37-year-old mother of three—one of whose children is now orphaned—of "domestic terrorism."
"After ICE executed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis and federal agents shot two more people in Portland, the 50501 Movement is demanding the immediate abolition of ICE," 50501 said in a statement Friday. "Renee Nicole Good and the Portland victims are just the most recent victims of ICE’s reign of terror. ICE has brutalized communities for decades, but its violence under the Trump regime has accelerated."
Renee Nicole Good was a 37-year-old wife and mother of three children who loved to sing and studied creative writing.We will not sit by while violence goes unanswered and our communities are terrorized.Please join us this weekend to say ICE Out For Good.
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— Indivisible ❌👑 (@indivisible.org) January 9, 2026 at 5:29 AM
"Marginalized communities have taken the brunt of their force; in 2025, at least 32 people died in ICE custody," 50501 added. "This past September, ICE shot and killed Silverio Villegas González, a father and cook from Mexico who was living in Chicago. In that same city, a Border Patrol agent celebrated after repeatedly shooting and injuring Marimar Martinez. The American people have had enough."
The ACLU said in a statement that "an ICE agent killed Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis mother, shooting her three times in the head through her car window. This is a reckless, horrific shooting that should have never happened."
"Renee's killing came just one day after the Trump administration stormed Minnesota communities with an unprecedented 2,000 federal agents. Children are afraid to go to school and Minnesota families are reeling from fear and a sense of chaos," the group continued. "For months, the Trump administration has been deploying heavily armed federal agents into our communities. They are smashing car windows, dragging people from their cars, zip-tying children, and physically harming our neighbors—citizens and noncitizens alike."
"We can't wait around while ICE harms more people," the ACLU added. "Congress MUST demand an end to these reckless immigration raids, and oppose any bill that would add to ICE's already massive budget."
United We Dream said that Good's "brutal killing is a horrifying reminder of the threat armed forces pose to our collective safety, especially at a time when local, state, and federal officials have consistently called on the federal government to invest in the resources working families truly need—healthcare, housing, access to food—instead of indiscriminate terror in our communities."
"In 2025 alone, 32 people died in immigration detention," the group added. "Billions poured into immigration raids for the sake of ripping apart communities in cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, and Minneapolis does nothing but lead to irreparable damage, violence, and death. We demand an immediate end to this cruelty and for elected leaders at every level to speak out in defense of immigrant communities and our shared safety.”
MoveOn argued that "the Trump administration is not making anybody safe—they are creating chaos and destroying lives."
"You don’t raid peaceful cities, schools, libraries, and churches unless your goal is to terrorize communities and silence dissent," the group added. "MoveOn is outraged and devastated that the unnecessary, reckless, and escalatory deployment of ICE is causing even more senseless killings. Trump’s ICE agents need to follow the advice of local officials and leave Minnesota immediately.”
Represent Maine, an "ICE out for Good" national coalition partner, said in a promotion for a Saturday noon rally in Augusta that "ICE’s campaign of terror is out of control and leading to the murder of our people."
"Entire communities are being traumatized," the group continued. "Immigrants, refugees, and American citizens are being targeted. This is not normal border enforcement: This is state violence."
"We will gather to remember those who have been killed, kidnapped, and disappeared by ICE, and the families and communities devastated in their wake," Represent Maine added. "We demand ICE out of Maine NOW!"
Dan Harmon of 50501 Minnesota said Friday, "They have literally started killing us—enough is enough."
"We are a peaceful and community-oriented state that will not allow the violent ICE secret police to continue kidnapping our neighbors and killing our friends," he said. "Immediately after the shooting, hundreds of Minnesotans gathered to respond on site, just as we did in 2020 after officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd."
"ICE must be removed from Minnesota and permanently abolished," Harmon added.
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As Trump Escalates Attacks on Dissent, Oct. 18 'No Kings' Protests Set to Be Even Bigger Than June
"We're going to show up in the largest peaceful protest in modern American history," said Indivisible's co-founder. "Millions will come together in more cities than ever to say collectively: No kings ever in America."
Sep 30, 2025
As President Donald Trump and his allies continue to target immigrants, journalists, and anyone else critical of the increasingly authoritarian administration, organizers are gearing up for another round of "No Kings" rallies across the United States, which they expect will draw even more demonstrators than a similar day of action in June.
"Sustained, broad-based, peaceful, pro-democracy grassroots movements win. Trump wanted a coronation on his birthday, and what he got instead was millions of people standing up to say NO KINGS," Indivisible co-founder and co-executive director Ezra Levin said in a Tuesday statement. "No Kings Day on June 14 was an historic demonstration of people power, and it's grown into a broad, diverse movement."
"While Trump escalates his attack with occupations of American cities and secret police forces terrorizing American communities, normal everyday people across this country are showing up every single day with courage and defiance. On October 18, we're going to show up in the largest peaceful protest in modern American history," he added. "Millions will come together in more cities than ever to say collectively: No kings ever in America."
Indivisible is planning next month's peaceful protests alongside groups including the ACLU, American Federation of Teachers, Common Defense, 50501, Human Rights Campaign, League of Conservation Voters, MoveOn, National Nurses United, Public Citizen, Service Employees International Union, and United We Dream.
IT’S OFFICIAL: We now have more protests planned for October 18 than there were back in June.It’s not even October yet but you’ve already put 2,100 events on the No Kings map.We hope to see you at the largest day of peaceful protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
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— Indivisible ❌👑 (@indivisible.org) September 30, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Organizers announced the second Not Kings mobilization earlier this month. As a federal government shutdown loomed on Tuesday, they said that over 2,110 protests are now planned across all 50 states—more than those that drew over 5 million people to the streets in June.
"We the People of the United States of America reject the Trump regime's repeated assaults on our freedoms," said 50501 national press coordinator Hunter Dunn. "This administration has invaded our cities, dismantled our social services, and tossed hard-working Americans into concentration camps. He has sacrificed our Constitution on the altar of fascism. On October 18th, the American people will gather together to practice two time-honored American traditions: nonviolent protest and anti-fascism."
Trump has deployed the National Guard in Los Angeles, California, and Washington, DC, and this week is moving to do the same in Portland, Oregon, and Chicago, Illinois—where US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are already carrying out the deadly "Operation Midway Blitz" as part of Trump's national push for mass deportations. The administration is also specifically targeting pro-Palestinian foreign students, which a federal judge on Tuesday rebuked with what one reporter called "the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era."
Also on Tuesday, during an unusual gathering of US military leadership in Virginia, Trump declared that the country is "under invasion from within" and generals should use American cities as "training grounds," while Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pledged to overhaul the inspector general process: "No more frivolous complaints, no more anonymous complaints, no more repeat complaints, no more smearing reputations, no more endless waiting, no more legal limbo, no more sidetracking careers, no more walking on eggshells!"
Trump seems to think that the National Guard is some pawn he can play whenever he wants to feel powerful. But let's be clear about what he's doing: he is using the US military against its own people. This is authoritarianism.
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— Public Citizen (@publiccitizen.bsky.social) September 30, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Meanwhile, Jacob Thomas, a military veteran and communications director for Common Defense, said that "as veterans and patriots who swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution and the freedoms that it enshrines, we are appalled at the lengths President Trump and his billionaire buddies have gone to to strip our neighbors and communities of the rights, dignity, and freedoms owed to everyone residing in this country."
"We must all do our part to fight back against his authoritarianism and military occupation of cities," he continued. "We cannot allow a wannabe dictator to destroy our democracy, gut veteran healthcare, keep people from accessing the ballot box, and tank our economy. We must all join together in solidarity to fight back and secure our freedoms. Two hundred and fifty years ago, Americans stood up to a tyrant king, generations later our great-grandparents defeated fascism abroad. Now it is up to us to defeat fascism at home."
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