It is clearer than ever that the majority of people in this country are opposed to Trump’s agenda of racism, war and attacks on working families. His approval rating is sinking, and today’s protests are taking place in every corner of the country from small towns to big cities.
What’s the next logical step? To make the people’s opposition impossible to ignore with a general strike that shuts down work, school and shopping!
After lying to the country that he would be a “president of peace”, Trump has launched yet another war of aggression in the Middle East. Thousands of people in Iran, Lebanon, and neighboring countries have been killed, and the global economy is in chaos. This is an illegal war that’s all about Trump’s desire to control the whole world, and has nothing to do with keeping us safe.
While Trump is unleashing the Pentagon war machine abroad, he’s terrorizing our communities with his ICE secret police. Mass deportations continue to rip families apart, and Trump even sent ICE agents to airports across the country in a blatant act of intimidation.
Trump wants $200 billion for the war in Iran, and has already allocated tens of billions to ICE and Border Patrol through the “big beautiful bill”. But when it comes to anything that would address the cost of living crisis, Trump isn’t interested. We need healthcare, housing, and good jobs, not mass deportations and war.
A general strike is when people from all walks of life stay home from work and school and boycott shopping. It shuts down profit making for the billionaire class who runs the government, and demonstrates beyond a shadow of a doubt that working people are the ones who make this country run.
On May 1st, unions, community groups and progressive organizations of all kinds are gearing up for another powerful day of protest. We need to do everything we can to get ready to make this day an expression of people’s power that can stop Trump in his tracks – A GENERAL STRIKE!
