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| When asked if there was any price tag that would make Trump’s attack on Iran unaffordable, Trump’s treasury secretary said, “absolutely not.” But when we need health care, housing, or lower utility bills, Trump and the Republicans always say we can’t afford it. We know the reason: the billionaires, CEOs, and corporate shareholders that buy off some politicians value their profits over our lives. That ain’t right. This week, we’re saying “absolutely not” to spending our health care money on the war on Iran. Use our tool to tell Congress to vote no on more money for war, and to take our money back from the billionaires. Then, use the resources below to keep the pressure on to get ICE out of our communities and keep families housed and together. Politico says the U.S. is blowing $2 billion a day on this war that working people reject. Let’s get our money back. |
| Fund Health Care, Not War on Iran Politico reports that we may be spending up to $2 billion a day on this outrageous war against Iran. Remember when Trump and his GOP allies said we couldn’t afford to keep people healthy, housed, and safe, then they gave our money to billionaires in the Big Ugly Bill? We do! Tell Congress to stop the war on Iran and fund our health care! |
| Tell Congress: Rein in ICE and Border Patrol! We are still fighting hard to get ICE and Border Patrol out of our communities–replacing one MAGA figure with another at DHS is not enough. Congress is still negotiating over the bill that funds these agencies, and legislators need to hear from their constituents. Tell your elected officials that we demand civil rights protections and for them to slash funding for ICE. Contact Congress now. |
| Keep Families Together and Housed In another desperate bid to blame immigrants for their own policy failures, Trump and HUD are trying to kick “mixed status” immigrant families out of public and subsidized housing. It’s cruel, costly, and counterproductive—kicking 37,000 citizen children to the curb during a housing crisis and wasting millions on red tape instead of keeping people housed. Add your voice: urge HUD Secretary Scott Turner to stop trying to separate families and make them homeless. |
| Support Housing Solutions, Not Cuts and Handcuffs! The rent is too damn high—and it’s only getting worse. Across the country, corporate landlords and Wall Street investors like Blackstone and JPMorgan are driving up housing costs while millions of our neighbors are being forced into homelessness. Over 255+ new laws have been introduced to criminalize homelessness since the Supreme Court’s awful Grants Pass decision. And the budget passed by the House of Representatives would make this crisis worse. Tell your representatives to fight back. |
| Help Us Keep Fighting: Donate to People’s Action The struggle for a country where we all can thrive has never been more important. Right now MAGA and the corporations funding them are assaulting our families, our freedoms, and our shared future. We will never stop working for our long-term vision of a healthy, healed country where we all have a voice, but we can’t get there without you. |
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| Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth says today will be the most intense day of bombing so far in the attack by the U.S. and Israel on Iran. This war is immoral, illegal, and unpopular – already less popular than the Iraq War at its end after nine years, and Trump can’t keep his team’s story straight on why they’re launching bombs in the first place. Meanwhile, our costs of living are still going through the roof while billionaires profit. And, Trump and the MAGA faction in Congress are still defending wasting our money on masked, violent, and poorly trained ICE and Border Patrol agents who attack our neighbors. Instead of focusing on what the Epstein class and Christian nationalists want, we need a government that directs our public dollars towards getting our costs down and building well-being for people of every race, gender, and kind of community. This week, we’ve got some effective actions for you to take to demand accountability and care from our elected officials. See below to find out what you can do. It’s going to take all of us to win the future we want, but if we dig deep and organize, we can get there together. |
| Tell Congress: Rein in ICE and Border Patrol! We are still fighting hard to get ICE and Border Patrol out of our communities–replacing one MAGA figure with another at DHS is not enough. Congress is still negotiating over the bill that funds these agencies, and legislators need to hear from their constituents. Tell your elected officials that we demand civil rights protections and for them to slash funding for ICE. Contact Congress now. |
| IRAN: Demand companies side with the people and the Constitution, not the regime waging war As people across the country condemn yet another illegal, immoral, and unauthorized military action by the White House and Israel, join us in demanding that corporate leaders who have been silent and the AI and tech companies whose platforms make wars possible take a stand. Sign the petition. |
| Fight Forward Phonebank As we fight to get our money back from ICE, we continue to hold Fight Forward Phone Banks in-person and online! Together, we’ll have 1,000,000 deep-listening conversations with multiracial, working-class people across the country. We’ll connect around the daily struggles working people face, expose how the Big Ugly Bill harms our families, and lay the foundation to win big in 2026. Make calls with us! |
| Keep Families Together and Housed In another desperate bid to blame immigrants for their own policy failures, Trump and HUD are trying to kick “mixed status” immigrant families out of public and subsidized housing. It’s cruel, costly, and counterproductive—kicking 37,000 citizen children to the curb during a housing crisis and wasting millions on red tape instead of keeping people housed. Add your voice: urge HUD Secretary Scott Turner to stop trying to separate families and make them homeless. |
| Support Housing Solutions, Not Cuts and Handcuffs! The rent is too damn high—and it’s only getting worse. Across the country, corporate landlords and Wall Street investors like Blackstone and JPMorgan are driving up housing costs while millions of our neighbors are being forced into homelessness. Over 255+ new laws have been introduced to criminalize homelessness since the Supreme Court’s awful Grants Pass decision. And the budget passed by the House of Representatives would make this crisis worse. Tell your representatives to fight back. |
| Help Us Keep Fighting: Donate to People’s Action The struggle for a country where we all can thrive has never been more important. Right now MAGA and the corporations funding them are assaulting our families, our freedoms, and our shared future. We will never stop working for our long-term vision of a healthy, healed country where we all have a voice, but we can’t get there without you. |
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| Do you get tired of hearing that our country can’t afford health care, housing, and a healthy climate for everyone–while we can always seem to afford endless wars? I know that I do. Thanks to the labor of working people of every race, gender, and kind of community, this is the richest country in the history of the world. We work hard to build healthy, strong, and safe families and communities, not to fund wars launched by billionaires that kill other working people, shatter lives, and make profits for a greedy few. This week, we invite you to join us in demanding that corporations that get rich from our work take a stand for our values and say NO to the war on Iran. We’ve also got other actions you can take to build a country where everyone can thrive. Join us! |
| IRAN: Demand companies side with the people and the Constitution, not the regime waging war As people across the country condemn yet another illegal, immoral, and unauthorized military action by the White House and Israel, join us in demanding that corporate leaders who have been silent and the AI and tech companies whose platforms make wars possible take a stand. Sign the petition. |
| Keep Families Together and Housed In another desperate bid to blame immigrants for their own policy failures, Trump and HUD are trying to kick “mixed status” immigrant families out of public and subsidized housing. It’s cruel, costly, and counterproductive—kicking 37,000 citizen children to the curb during a housing crisis and wasting millions on red tape instead of keeping people housed. Add your voice: urge HUD Secretary Scott Turner to stop trying to separate families and make them homeless. |
| Together We Declare May Day Join a national call on March 4 at 8 p.m. Eastern to hear the latest from the May Day Strong network: including our demands for May 1, how we’re building toward a day of No Work No School No Shopping, and the release of the Real Affordability Agenda, our blueprint to put a good life back within reach for working people. R.S.V.P. now! |
| Fight Forward Phonebank As we fight to get our money back from ICE, we continue to hold Fight Forward Phone Banks in-person and online! Together, we’ll have 1,000,000 deep-listening conversations with multiracial, working-class people across the country. We’ll connect around the daily struggles working people face, expose how the Big Ugly Bill harms our families, and lay the foundation to win big in 2026. Make calls with us! |
| Help Us Keep Fighting: Donate to People’s Action The struggle for a country where we all can thrive has never been more important. Right now MAGA and the corporations funding them are assaulting our families, our freedoms, and our shared future. We will never stop working for our long-term vision of a healthy, healed country where we all have a voice, but we can’t get there without you. |
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Wisconsin Assemblymember, Former Connecticut Regulatory Chair and California Commissioner, and New York and Nevada Community Groups Say Cheaper Bills Are Possible Today
February 2026 press briefing transcript and video
Washington D.C. – As more Americans struggle to afford what they need to live, investor-owned utility companies across the country are boasting about how raising energy bills helps them lock in billions in profits. In a press briefing organized by People’s Action Institute, local officials, former regulators, nonprofit leaders and policy experts made it clear that working families do not need to wait for the results of the 2026 midterm elections for their utility bills to come down.
“Americans are struggling to pay bills from their investor-owned utilities,” Blueprint for Affordable Energy Coauthor Mónica Mariko Embrey said. “Energy bills outpaced inflation, while investor-owned utilities are doubling down on more expensive fossil fuel infrastructure to maximize future profits.”
The Blueprint for Affordable Energy, launched during today’s press conference, prioritizes five solutions to bring relief to households struggling with affordability, the effects of the climate crisis, and public health challenges:
- Protect working families by stopping shutoffs and utility debt, and limiting rate hikes to protect our most vulnerable families.
- Stop relying on fossil fuels because they’ve proven to be expensive, dirty, and unreliable.
- Build renewable energy because it’s proven to be cleaner, cheaper, and faster.
- Prioritize families, not Wall Street. States can take action by capping utility profits, making utilities pay their fair share, and make utilities pay for blowing their budget when they are overspending on infrastructure.
- Build the energy system of the future. Data centers and infrastructure overbuilding drive up utility bills, and keep fossil fuel infrastructure online longer than it’s needed, forcing working families to unfairly shoulder these costs. States should enact policy guardrails to stop utilities from boosting the price tag of upgrades so they can raise rates for consumers, end blank checks from state governments and make big tech pay their fair share. Additionally, states must consider cross-cutting policies, including alternative financing, public power, and increasing transparency and oversight.
“We stand at a pivotal moment in our nation’s history as tech billionaires seek to impinge upon our communities and our natural resources with AI and data centers,” Wisconsin State Assembly Rep. Supreme Moore Omokunde, D-Milwaukee, said. “Communities have made themselves heard on this issue. We need to pause rapid data center expansion in order to protect communities and our natural resources and to protect our natural constituencies of land, air, and water.”
Rep. Moore Omokunde was joined in Wednesday’s briefing by:
- Former EPA Regional Administrator and CA Public Utilities Commissioner Martha Guzman Aceves,
- Former CT Public Utilities Regulatory Authority Chair Marissa Gillett,
- Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN) Executive Director Laura Martin, and
- People United for Sustainable Housing (PUSH) Buffalo Executive Director Dawn Wells-Clyburn, and
- Blueprint for Affordable Energy coauthors Victoria Kaplan and Mónica Mariko Embrey.
“There is a perverse investment signal in traditional utility regulation that encourages investor-owned utilities to prioritize large, upfront capital expenditure investments over lower-cost operational solutions,” Former CT Public Utilities Regulatory Authority Chair Marissa Gillett said. “We’re focused on Utility Return on Equity (ROE) because it undervalues what the utilities and their investors are accumulating. Lowering ROE can be done. There are legislatures that have bills to lower ROE under consideration in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, and I lowered ROE when I was the chair of the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority.”
Polling proves electricity bills are a “major” source of stress for more than one-third of all Americans. Since 2020, electricity prices have risen by over 30%, outpacing the general rate of inflation. 14 million U.S. households are facing significant utility debt, with total unpaid, overdue balances topping $23 billion. American households have been denied cleaner, more reliable, and more affordable energy while corporate utilities leverage fossil fuel subsidies and tax incentives and put shareholder returns above meeting people’s basic needs. Three out of every four American households pay monthly bills to corporate utilities that are posting record-breaking profits. These profits coincide with significant rate increases for consumers. Corporate utilities requested a record $31 billion in rate increases in 2025, more than double the $15 billion requested in 2024.
“Temperatures in Nevada reach 120 degrees, so a utility shutoff means a risk of death,” Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN) Executive Director Laura Martin said. “Despite this, our Public Utilities Commission has allowed our Berkshire Hathaway-owned monopoly utility, NV Energy, to raise rates so they can reward shareholders. Their so-called ‘daily demand charge’ artificially increases the cost of already unaffordable monthly bills, forcing ratepayers to pay for the cost of new dirty fossil fuel plants that make our communities even hotter.”
“Buffalo, New York is the third poorest city and has the second oldest housing stock in the nation,” People United for Sustainable Housing (PUSH) Buffalo Executive Director Dawn Wells-Clyburn said. “As a post-industrial community we’re faced with many environmental challenges, including more than 55 identified brownfields, high rates of respiratory illnesses, as well as lead poisoning. Our median income is $40,000. Energy affordability is front and center, and in New York, corporate utilities are winning approval for costly, gold-plated infrastructure investments like fracked- gas distribution, pipe mains, and service lines – that customers are forced to pay for – which are a clear violation of the spirit and letter of the state’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA).”
“The warming of our climate has been presenting itself with extreme weather events,” Former EPA Regional Administrator and CA Public Utilities Commissioner Martha Guzman Aceves said. “In California, it’s in the form of catastrophic wildfires, caused in some cases by the lack of upkeep of utilities transmission and distribution infrastructure. What we’re seeing today is a 10 to 24% rate increase due to these wildfire costs. The Blueprint for Affordable Energy points out the strategies that we need to be looking at and addressing moving forward, here in California, and throughout the nation.”
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| Earlier today, the acting head of ICE was asked whether Alex Pretti or Renee Good deserved to die. According to the New York Times, he “declined to answer.” He also refused to apologize for the Trump regime’s vicious lies about them. When faced with hateful, cruel, unconstitutional attacks like these on our families and freedoms, we respond with love, anger, and solidarity. As Valentine’s Day approaches, we are leading with love. Join the “To Immigrants With Love” campaign and show this regime that their hate can’t drown out our care for one another. |
| To Immigrants with Love This Valentine’s Day week, people across the country are coming together to show love and solidarity with immigrant communities—and to reject the violent, intrusive, and unlawful tactics being carried out by the Trump Department of Homeland Security, including ICE and CBP. All this week, we’re participating in To Immigrants With Love, a national week of action rooted in nonviolent action, collective care, and public accountability. The most important thing you can do right now is R.S.V.P. and encourage others to join! |
| TONIGHT, Feb. 10: Free MN: ICE Out: An International Call for Solidarity Join Free MN, ICE Out Now Minnesota, the Sunrise Movement, and May Day Strong TONIGHT for a Zoom call to hear from Minnesotans directly impacted by the ICE surge, and how we are fighting to get ICE out. We’ll talk about how corporations and billionaires are propping up the ICE assault and how you can take action near you. Register now. |
| Thurs., Feb. 12: Resist and Reimagine: Lessons from Minnesota Join us for a conversation with labor and community leaders from Minnesota including U.S. Reps. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., and special guests. They’ll share practical lessons for fellow organizers on organizing in the midst of crisis, rapid response, economic solidarity actions, and how Minnesota’s experience can help other communities prepare to protect each other. Register now. |
| Tell Congress: Take back our funds from ICE! Trump cut close to one TRILLION dollars in health care and food assistance and used half of that money to hire the thousands of poorly trained ICE agents who are now terrorizing our communities and killing people. Democrats need to demand that these funds be taken back and given back to Medicaid and SNAP. They also must demand that Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller be fired. Tell your elected officials that you that we want our food and housing money back from ICE! |
| Fight Forward Phonebank As we fight to get our money back from ICE, we continue to hold Fight Forward Phone Banks in-person and online! Together, we’ll have 1,000,000 deep-listening conversations with multiracial, working-class people across the country. We’ll connect around the daily struggles working people face, expose how the Big Ugly Bill harms our families, and lay the foundation to win big in 2026. Make calls with us! |
| We Are The Light Sometimes a simple gesture can send a powerful message of solidarity, defiance, and hope. Place a candle in your window tonight and every night until this assault on our freedom and dignity ends. Learn more |
| Help Us Keep Fighting: Donate to People’s Action The struggle for a country where we all can thrive has never been more important. Right now MAGA and the corporations funding them are assaulting our families, our freedoms, and our shared future. We will never stop working for our long-term vision of a healthy, healed country where we all have a voice, but we can’t get there without you. |
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| In 2025, Trump cut close to $1 TRILLION from our health care and food assistance, then used half of that money to hire the thousands of violent, masked ICE agents who are now terrorizing our communities and killing people. This week, we’re making calls to Congress to tell them to get our money back from ICE! Your calls are already having an impact. Last week, people across the U.S. called their senators, and together we stopped Congress from rubber-stamping huge new budgets for ICE and Border Patrol. However, ICE was already sitting on huge piles of cash thanks to Trump’s Big Ugly Bill passed in 2025. Democrats need to demand that these funds be put back in Medicaid and SNAP. They also must demand that Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller be fired. We’ve got momentum. Let’s keep it up. |
| P.S. Our local affiliate, TakeAction Minnesota, continues to organize to protect our neighbors and students in peaceful, nonviolent ways, and we invite you again to donate to support their crucial work on the ground. |
| Tell Congress: Take back our funds from ICE! Trump cut close to one TRILLION dollars in health care and food assistance and used half of that money to hire the thousands of poorly trained ICE agents who are now terrorizing our communities and killing people. Democrats need to demand that these funds be taken back and given back to Medicaid and SNAP. They also must demand that Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller be fired. Tell your elected officials that you that we want our food and housing money back from ICE! |
| Fight Forward Phonebank As we fight to get our money back from ICE, we continue to hold Fight Forward Phone Banks in-person and online! Together, we’ll have 1,000,000 deep-listening conversations with multiracial, working-class people across the country. We’ll connect around the daily struggles working people face, expose how the Big Ugly Bill harms our families, and lay the foundation to win big in 2026. Make calls with us! |
| Help Us Keep Fighting: Donate to People’s Action The struggle for a country where we all can thrive has never been more important. Right now MAGA and the corporations funding them are assaulting our families, our freedoms, and our shared future. We will never stop working for our long-term vision of a healthy, healed country where we all have a voice, but we can’t get there without you. |
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| After the killings of Alex Pretti by border patrol and Renee Good by ICE agents, it’s clear that these masked, violent, and untrained agents must be removed from our communities. We demand that: * ICE and border patrol agents be removed from Minnesota and our neighborhoods around the country, * their boss, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, be fired, and * senators vote against ICE funding this week. Call your senators right now. They’re going to vote on a funding bill soon that increases ICE’s budget, and we can stop them if we act together. We’ve also got actions you can take to stop Dr. Oz from letting AI deny your insurance claims, as well as getting utility bills down. See below! Together, there’s nothing we can’t do. |
| P.S. Our local affiliate, TakeAction Minnesota, continues to organize to protect our neighbors and students in peaceful, nonviolent ways, and we invite you again to donate to support their crucial work on the ground. |
| Tell the Senate: No ICE funding, get ICE and border patrol out of our neighborhoods For weeks, everyday people in Minnesota and around the country have resisted in peaceful, nonviolent ways as the Trump/MAGA regime assaulted their freedoms, and they have continued to show up to care for one another. This week the Senate is considering increasing ICE funding–that ain’t right! Tell your senators you want ICE out of MN and for them to vote against ICE funding. |
| Protect Our Medicare—Say No to AI-Driven Denials Trump’s Medicare chief, Dr. Oz, announced a pilot program in six states (Arizona, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington) that would hand traditional Medicare over to private companies using artificial intelligence to override doctors’ decisions. Say no to AI-powered corporate death panels. |
| The Blueprint for Affordable Energy Launch Event People’s Action Institute is launching a Blueprint for Affordable Energy in February, and you’re invited! The blueprint is a call to action for governors, state legislators, federal officials, community organizers and frustrated ratepayers ready to unite to lay down the path for clean, affordable and reliable energy for all. Sign up now! |
| Help Us Keep Fighting: Donate to People’s Action The struggle for a country where we all can thrive has never been more important. Right now MAGA and the corporations funding them are assaulting our families, our freedoms, and our shared future. We will never stop working for our long-term vision of a healthy, healed country where we all have a voice, but we can’t get there without you. |
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Washington, D.C. – People’s Action Executive Director Sulma Arias today denounced the killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti and urged immediate action to defund ICE and border patrol and get ICE & border patrol out of Minnesota, Maine, and communities across the country:
“We are horrified by the killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti by a group of border patrol agents, just days after the murder of Renee Good. People in Minnesota, Maine, and around the country want these violent, untrained, masked ICE and border patrol agents out of their communities. And we want ICE and Border Patrol’s funding cut so they can’t keep killing, abducting, and harassing our loved ones.
“The Senate is considering a bill right now that would increase ICE’s budget. In this context, that’s sickening. Senators must vote no. Every single person of good conscience must call their senators now and demand that they vote down the Homeland Security funding bill and get ICE and border patrol out now.
“For weeks, everyday people in Minnesota have refused to comply with the Trump administration’s assault on their freedoms. They have resisted in peaceful and nonviolent ways, and showed up to care for one another. Their courage and discipline have been heroic.
“This ongoing attack by Trump and the MAGA regime targets anyone they believe is an immigrant or is showing up in solidarity to protect one another. Minnesotans across races and origins, faiths and genders, however, will not let their courage and love for one another be shaken by the administration’s out-of-control campaign of lies, terror, and violence.
“It’s past time. ICE out now.”
Concerned people in Minnesota, Maine, and around the country are encouraged to use this toolkit to tell the Senate to vote down ICE funding this week.
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Last year marked the most May Day mobilizations in the history of the country, this year organizers say will be even bigger
Chicago, Illinois – On a national call, a dozen representatives of labor and community groups from Minnesota, Chicago, and nationwide announced to thousands of attendees the call for May Day 2026 to be a day of rallies, marches, and walking out from school, work, and shopping.
The May Day Strong effort is organized under the banner “Workers over Billionaires,” as they take on what they say is a billionaire agenda that has spiked the cost of living for working people, slashed public budgets, and redirected those funds to millionaires, billionaires, and giant corporations.
“Billionaire ballrooms won’t pay our bills. But We the People are taking peaceful, nonviolent action to rebuild our democracy on May Day and beyond. While our families struggle to afford everyday expenses, public dollars are taken out of our pockets and put into ICE budgets, private prison corporation contracts, military deployments to Venezuela, and giveaways to big oil. We must hold the politicians who make our housing, health care, and utilities unaffordable accountable at the ballot box. The corporations who profit off our pain need to be held accountable by their customers. Our families and our communities are organizing to build an economy that works for all of us, and the peaceful and prosperous future we deserve,” said People’s Action Executive Director Sulma Arias.
“We need to stay focused on the corporations driving, profiting from, and enabling the fascist attacks on our communities. We need to make sure their executives understand they won’t have peace if we don’t have peace. We have to directly challenge corporations like Target, Hilton, and Palantir and show them that fascism isn’t just bad for democracy, it’s also bad for business,” said Executive Director of the Action Center on Race and the Economy Saqib Bhatti.
May 1st is universally recognized as International Workers Day. In the US, organizers say they will rally working-class people nationwide to demand their elected officials from city councils to governors to Congress stand up to the federal attack on working people.
“On May 1st 2026 we need to take what the people of MN are going to do this Friday January 23 to the entire country: We are not going to work, we are not going to shop, and our kids won’t go to school that day. They will be with us in the streets. We must stand together to fight this government that is not taking care of us but instead is killing us. An immigrant worker is not who is standing between us and a better paying job, it’s a billionaire and we need to keep naming them and taking them on,” said Executive Director of Organized Power In Numbers Neidi Dominguez.
“The immigrant rights movement and organized labor movement have a long history of working in solidarity to improve the lives of workers, their families, and their communities. But the unprecedented threats we’re facing from this alliance between the wealthy and the racist requires us to go even further and move powerfully as one movement. That’s why I’m proud of the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM) being part of May Day Strong, working together to make 2026 the year we became even more united in overcoming the oppression and abuse by the powerful. ¡Sí, se puede!,” said Fair Immigration Reform Movement Managing Director Andy Kang.
Echoing a call from Minneapolis in the wake of ICE’s occupation of that city and the murder of Renee Good, many are already calling for the 1st to be a day of “no school, no work, no shopping,” while others are planning rallies and marches in their city that day.
“We need to protect our students and our schools from efforts to defund and dismantle protections for vulnerable students. We invite parents, teachers and others who care about public schools to join us at freethefuture.net. Join us as we organize in our communities and build towards May Day,” said Chief of Staff at the Center for Popular Democracy Oona Chatterjee.
“Under the Trump administration, the creation of fear has become a governing strategy in our communities. It’s enforced through raids and surveillance, and reinforced by corporate decisions that profit from it. Media companies like Telemundo and Univision took millions to air messages telling immigrants to self-deport or live in fear, while tech corporations like Palantir built the infrastructure that makes repression scalable. This goes far beyond immigrant communities: protesters are surveilled, journalists are censored and arrested, workers face retaliation, and entire communities are criminalized for refusing to stay silent. When corporations align with policies advanced by Donald Trump and choose profit and political compliance over people, fear becomes a business model designed to keep communities quiet,” said Political Director at Mijente Tania Unzueta.
On the call, in addition to building momentum toward this May Day, speakers announced their support for the people of Minneapolis and their plans to participate in this Friday’s national day of action being mapped at iceoutforgood.org. They announced plans to push statehouses to tax the ultra-rich, as states like Massachusetts have done, to fill the holes in school, transit, and public health budgets created by the current administration.
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About May Day Strong:
Workers Over Billionaires is organized by the May Day Strong Coalition, stretching from labor, to multi-issue advocacy groups and everyday workers who are fed up with the billionaire agenda. You can find a full list of organizational partners here. We are united in common purpose: building a multi-racial movement to get real wins for working people.
We hosted more than one thousand actions May 1st, 2025 and Labor Day 2025 and are planning A Day Without Workers for May 1st, 2026. Economic non-cooperation and withholding our labor is how we will win.
About People’s Action:
People’s Action is a proud national network of 38 member-based, power-building organizations in 29 states with more than a million members and tens of thousands of national volunteers. We are from every background, speak many languages, and live in small towns, cities and rural areas. We are all of us!
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| For weeks, everyday people in Minneapolis and across Minnesota have refused to comply with the Trump administration’s assault on their freedoms, resisted in peaceful and violent ways, and showed up to care for one another. This ongoing attack by Trump and the MAGA regime targets anyone they believe is an immigrant or is showing up in solidarity to protect them. Minnesotans across races and origins, faiths and genders, however, will not let their courage and love for one another be shaken by the administration’s out-of-control campaign of lies, terror, and violence by masked ICE agents. Our local affiliate, TakeAction Minnesota, continues to organize to protect our neighbors and students in peaceful, nonviolent ways, and we invite you again to donate to support their crucial work on the ground. Join us as we continue standing up for our neighbors, starting with today’s walkout at 2 p.m. local time. |
| TODAY: Free America Walkout! One year into Trump’s second regime, we face an escalating fascist threat: ICE raids on our communities, troops occupying our cities, families torn apart, attacks on our trans siblings, mass surveillance, and terror used to keep us silent. It is time for our communities to escalate as well. On January 20 at 2 PM local time, we will walk out of work, school, and commerce. We will withhold our labor, our participation, and our consent. A free America begins the moment we refuse to cooperate. Learn more. |
| Jan. 21: May Day 2026 Kick Off: Workers Over Billionaires Nationwide A year after making history with the most May Day actions in the US ever, come together with unions, community groups, and working people as we flex labor’s power in 2026 to stand up to the billionaire agenda, demand a country that working families can afford to live in, and get in formation for a May Day full of rallies, marches, actions, strikes, sick outs, and protest to demand we put workers over billionaires in all we do. Join us! |
| Jan. 23: ICE Out of Minnesota Day of Truth and Freedom Friday, January 23rd will be a statewide day of nonviolent moral action, reflection: no work, no school, no shopping — only community, conscience, and collective action. Learn more. |
| Protect Our Medicare—Say No to AI-Driven Denials Trump’s Medicare chief, Dr. Oz, announced a pilot program in six states (Arizona, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington) that would hand traditional Medicare over to private companies using artificial intelligence to override doctors’ decisions. Say no to AI-powered corporate death panels. |
| People’s Action: Fight Forward Phonebank Through MLK Day, we’re holding Fight Forward Phone Banks in-person and online. Together, we’ll have 1,000,000 deep listening conversations with multiracial working-class people across the country. We’ll connect around the daily struggles working people face, expose how the Big Ugly Bill harms our families, and lay the foundation to win big in 2026. Join us this Thursday! |
| The Blueprint for Affordable Energy Launch Event People’s Action Institute is launching a Blueprint for Affordable Energy in February, and you’re invited! The blueprint is a call to action for governors, state legislators, federal officials, community organizers and frustrated ratepayers ready to unite to lay down the path for clean, affordable and reliable energy for all. Sign up now! |
| Help Us Keep Fighting: Donate to People’s Action The struggle for a country where we all can thrive has never been more important. Right now MAGA and the corporations funding them are assaulting our families, our freedoms, and our shared future. We will never stop working for our long-term vision of a healthy, healed country where we all have a voice, but we can’t get there without you. |
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