Monday, September 1, 4pm
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Labor Day, September 1st, 2025, people in more than 1,000 communities across the 50 United States, Sweden, and the Territory of Guam will gather for Workers Over Billionaires. This is a national day of action sponsored by the same coalition that brought you this year’s May Day National Day of Action. Participants will creatively and nonviolently protest the billionaire takeover of our democracy and the government’s abandonment of the American working class.

The War on Workers.

When billionaires control the government, workers lose. Instead of providing healthcare for all, the billionaires controlling our government are kidnapping hard-working immigrants off the streets and throwing them in concentration camps. Instead of funding public schools, the billionaires have stolen trillions of public dollars to line the pockets of billionaire robber barons. Instead of defending democracy, the billionaire agenda has commandeered once-loyal National Guard personnel and Marines and armed them against the very people they are sworn to protect. And behind all of these actions, including manipulating electoral maps, billionaires are filling the government with corporate stooges with the aim of disenfranchising the average citizens and the American public of their constitutional right to exercise their voice by voting. 

“Workers over Billionaires brings together ordinary working people and citizen allies alike to demand a fairer, freer, and more just country. We want a fair shot for every American, not just the Forbes 500,” said 50501 National Press Coordinator Hunter Dunn. “On September 1st, we’re coming out to show a united front against the armed, billionaire takeover of our government before it is too late.” 

Our demands are clear:

• Stop the billionaire takeover of our government and recommit to the average citizen.

• Protect and defend Medicaid, Social Security, and other programs for working people.

• Return funding to schools, healthcare, and housing for all.

• Stop attacks on immigrants, Black, Indigenous, trans people, and on our rights and freedoms.

• Invest in people, not the police state.

From Tongue-in-cheek “Tac-overs” to Marches in the Streets

Across the country and even in Guam, we’ll protest with marches, rallies, teach-ins, and mutual aid pop-ups. Our hundreds of events include:

• During Chicago’s Workers Over Billionaires Labor Day action, a massive group of protestors will march through the Loop, focusing on different billionaire targets (including Target, Valor Capital, and Tesla). Key speakers will include Target Boycott leader and Reverend Jamal Bryant, CTU President Stacy Davis Gates, AFT President Randi Weingarten, and many others.

• Serving Justice and Tacos at Trump Tower Chicago, where One Fair Wage is directly confronting Trump’s anti-worker and anti-fair wage policies at Trump’s skyscraper.

• The Los Angeles/Long Beach HarborLabor Coalition’s 46th Annual Solidarity Parade & Picnic Rally, where a multi-union coalition is coming together to march for workers and against the threat of unregulated Artificial Intelligence.

• The Houston Coalition is organizing a march in addition to its annual Labor Day barbecue.

• In Durham, North Carolina, Workers Assembly, UE-150, Unions of Southern Service Workers, Duke Graduate Student Union, Durham Association of Educators, Domestic Workers Alliance, and NC State AFL-CIO are coming together to rally against Duke University.

• In the city where the American Revolution began, the Greater Boston Labor Council will make history with its first-ever Labor Day Parade.

• For the first time ever, Albuquerque unions and community groups are forgoing their annual picnic to take action by hitting the streets. 

• Denver will be hosting both a March to the Governor's Mansion and a Rally and Activist Fair.

People Over Profits

“This Labor Day, we’re choosing people over profits and workers over billionaires,” said Sarah Parker, Executive Director for Voices of Florida. “We’re not just refusing the billionaire agenda—we’re building a future where ordinary people decide what they want America to be when this regime comes to an end.”

We Are All D.C. 

After Labor Day, the 50501 Movement is joining with Free DC to take part in the We Are All D.C. National March on Saturday, September 6th. We are calling on communities across the country to join organizers in Washington, D.C., for a national march on the White House to demand that the federal forces leave DC immediately. 

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All Workers Over Billionaires events share a commitment to nonviolent resistance, solidarity, and community safety. To learn more or to register for a Labor Day action, visit www.maydaystrong.org.