May Day, US activists plan nationwide economic blackout
Unions, immigrant-rights groups and local labor organizers are calling for a nationwide May Day economic blackout on May 1, urging 'No school, no work, no shopping' across more than 3,000 planned events. Planned actions include school walkouts, workplace disruptions and consumer boycotts, with teachers scheduled to march to Raleigh over stalled pay raises and other city-level rallies. The escalation follows an ICE enforcement operation in Minnesota and aims to flex economic pressure ahead of the midterm elections. If widely observed, the blackout could disrupt schools, transit and retail on May 1 and demonstrate coordinated labor and immigrant-rights power heading into the election season.
FRIDAY: Workers, students, and families will be calling out of work, walking out of school, and refusing to shop as part of the nationwide day of economic disruption. There are many ways you can help make a difference on May Day: survey.alchemer.com/s3/8705046/i...
ADaveSaysWhat8Will be a great day to take some time to look at your 401K accounts and divest from all the firms that contributed to the ballroom: www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/p...
Sunshine 💚 Jeep Girl7Time to boycott everything that is against human rights. We need country wide, boycott, and strike.
Blue.dot.in.a.red.space❌👑4Boycott social media… FB, instagram etc. let’s go dark on that.
Annie3The only shop I’m visiting that day is my hairstylist who has her own business.
jgunncool.bsky.social3Good start - then we need to narrow the focus and go much deeper. Pick one or a small number of the worst of the worst (e.g., Amazon) and let's get consumers to boycott it; let's pull together a strike fund for their workers; let's encourage shareholder disinvestment.
David2We need to become better organized., cbwrong.blogspot.com/2026/04/how-...
Guad2We are traveling that day. However, any purchases I need to make, I will make prior to Friday! It’s the least I can do!
Emma2Hope this works. Support from France!
