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The planet is on fire, a military Junta has taken over DC, and Trump and his MAGA minions are working every angle to make climate denial the law of the United States of America.

So, this Labor Day we need more than barbecues. We need an uprising of workers over billionaires. Fortunately, the same groups that carried out the Earth Day to May Day protests this year, are calling for September 1 to be the next mobilization moment to demand exactly that.

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This is a pivotal moment — Trump and his billionaire friends are converting the government into their private slush fund. The money they take from working families, they put in fossil fuel billionaires' pockets and set aside to fund Trump's private army of ICE agents. That's why we’ve been rising up all year from hands off, to the Earth Day to May Day mobilizations, to No Kings and the John Lewis Good Trouble day of action, and more.

Labor Day will be different this year. Working people are rising up and planning canvasses, rallies, marches, and protest barbecues. We are taking action, growing our movement, and fighting for a country that is more fair, just, equitable, and free for all of us—and not just a chosen few.

We are the many. They are the few. Workers over billionaires.

On August 14, join us for our National Call to hear about our Labor Day plans and how your community can join our movement to build the grassroots power we need to build the world we deserve. Learn more at MayDayStrong.org.

Thanks for all you do,

Drew & the strikes are one of the 198 methods crew

Sources:

1. https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/cooked-alive-europes-wildfires-hit-tourism-spots-forests-2025-08-12/
2. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/12/mayor-national-guard-washington-dc
3. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/31/trump-epa-endangerment-finding
4. https://www.npr.org/2025/04/30/nx-s1-5382560/may-day-protests-history-trump
5. https://www.198methods.org/2025/03/25/april-5-hands-off-our-climate-and-communities/
6. https://www.198methods.org/2025/04/17/all-out-for-earth-day-to-may-day/
7. https://www.198methods.org/2025/05/31/no-fascists-no-kings-join-us-june-14/
8. https://www.198methods.org/2025/07/03/good-trouble-lives-on/
9. https://www.198methods.org/2025/07/07/get-training-to-stop-a-fossil-fueled-billionaire-takeover/
10. https://nonprofitquarterly.org/a-labor-movement-that-matters-from-may-day-to-labor-day-and-beyond/

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