A May Day 2026 Host Toolkit includes training information for a “coordinated day of action” and promotes tactics such as a school ‘walk-in’; NEA provided $1.7M in funding to organization involved with training.
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SUMMARY
A May Day 2026 Host Toolkit includes training information for a “coordinated day of action” that demands taxing the rich, removal of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and “expanding democracy;” it also promotes tactics such as a school “walk-in” where participants enter a building to “protest harmful school conditions and policies.”
The National Education Association (NEA) has provided $1,735,000 in funding to one of the organizations behind the training efforts.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- The organizers of the May Day event demand taxing “the rich,” “ICE out,” expanding “democracy,” and defending “free and fair elections not a rigged disaster.”
- Listed demonstration tactics include a “Walk-in” at a local school where participants will rally in front of the building before entering to either “celebrate” and “collaborate with school officials” or “protest harmful school conditions and policies.”
- The toolkit also promotes “hosting a corporate action” which the organizers state gives them a “chance to stand up to the billionaires who are directly causing” them harm and “profiting from it.”
- Listed “corporate targets” for the action include Chevron & Citgo – which are stated to have played a “critical role in supporting Israel’s bombardment of Gaza and ongoing displacement of Palestinians.”
- A “Four Weeks of Power” training series is organized and led by Free the Future, Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools (AROS), New York University – Steinhardt Metro Center, and Midwest Academy.
- Midwest Academy has received $1,735,000 from the National Education Association (NEA) since 2015.
MAY DAY 2026 – HOST TOOLKIT
The Demands
According to the toolkit, the organizers state they want to “tax the rich so our families, not their fortunes, come first,” “ICE Out. No private army serving authoritarian power,” and “expand democracy, not corporate power. Defend free and fair elections not a rigged disaster.”
May Day Tactics
The organizers state that they are “fed up and demand an end to this billionaire takeover” and that demonstrators should prioritize the “core message: Workers Over Billionaires: We have the Power.”
Listed demonstration tactics include a rally that is “designed to highlight the harms of the crisis we face,” a protest outside congressional district offices or corporate targets, and a “Walk-in” at a local school where participants will rally in front of the building before entering to either “celebrate” and “collaborate with school officials” or “protest harmful school conditions and policies.”
Hosting A Corporate Action
The toolkit also promotes “hosting a corporate action” which the organizers state gives them a “chance to stand up to the billionaires who are directly causing” them harm and “profiting from it.” Actions include wide awake, or all night noise, campaigns, boycotts, and protests.
Listed “corporate targets” for the action include Hilton Hotels, Enterprise Rental Cars and , Chevron & Citgo – which are stated to have played a “critical role in supporting Israel’s bombardment of Gaza and ongoing displacement of Palestinians.”
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