This Week in Action | April 20–26, 2026
Earth Day arrives Wednesday. The We Are America March is on the road right now. And May Day is eleven days out.
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Actions From Last Week
Tax Day protests took place across the country on April 15, with thousands in the streets in New York, Washington, Chicago, San Francisco, and Dallas. Thousands showed up to push back on funding wars, mass deportations, private detention, while cutting everything else. Showing up on Tax Day is one way of saying, not in our name.
The De-ICE Citizens Bank campaign also kept building. What began as a handful of standouts outside Rhode Island bank branches in January has grown into coordinated protests across more than a dozen East Coast and Midwest states. The campaign held a national coalition call on April 16 to brief groups on what’s coming this Thursday.
And the We Are America March is on the road right now about half way to their destination, retracing the 160-mile route from Philadelphia to Washington that nearly 200 people completed last fall, arriving at the National Mall to be welcomed by a crowd and members of Congress. The spring edition started April 11. It finishes April 25.
This week’s actions and how to join them
Tonight, April 20 | Know Your Rights Training
Tonight’s call: No Kings / ACLU-led Train-the-Trainer on immigrants’ rights. This is a webinar built to give people what they need to train others: the right to remain silent, the right to refuse consent to searches, the right to record ICE and other law enforcement. One trained person can make their whole community harder to intimidate. RSVP and find future sessions and recordings on the No Kings trainings page.
April 18–22 | Earth Week and Earth Day
Earth Day 2026 falls on Wednesday, and this year Earthday.org chose the theme: Our Power, Our Planet. Environmental progress depends on people who keep showing up for our planet. As of late March, Earthday.org reported more than 5,600 events are registered across all 50 states and more than 180 countries, ranging from cleanups and tree plantings to rallies, teach-ins, town halls, and voter registration drives. Use the Earth Day event finder to search by city or ZIP code for something happening near you this week.
Through April 25 | We Are America March
The April launch of We Are America March was hosted by 50501Philadelphia, and the spirit of the march reflects exactly where this movement is right now: people from all kinds of backgrounds and places, deciding that visible, sustained democratic refusal is more important than waiting for a single big moment to arrive.
The spring march runs through April 25. You can join for a day or a community event without committing to the full walk.
Ongoing | NDLON Adopt a Day Labor Corner
Ongoing, NDLON’s Adopt a Day Labor Corner. The premise is to show up where immigrant workers are most exposed, at hiring sites, day-labor corners, Home Depots, car washes, schools serving immigrant families, and build a regular, visible, nonviolent community presence.
NDLON gives you multiple ways to participate, an interest form to connect locally, an Adopt a Corner toolkit, an Adopt a School pathway, and a Mobilize page where volunteers can register for or host local groups and trainings.
Thursday, April 23 | People’s Shareholder Meeting to De-ICE Citizens Bank
Citizens Bank is headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island. It has branches in communities across the Northeast and Midwest. And according to the De-ICE Citizens Bank coalition, it has helped GEO Group and CoreCivic, the two largest private prison and ICE detention companies in the country, access more than $2.5 billion in financing since 2024.
On Thursday, the coalition is bringing that case directly to bank leadership at the People’s Shareholder Meeting outside Citizens’ headquarters in Providence. For those who can’t make the trip to Rhode Island, the campaign gives you multiple concrete ways to act from wherever you are: take the pledge, send a message to bank leadership, move your money away from Citizens Bank, and use the local group map to find a branch action near you. Connecticut actions returned this weekend ahead of Thursday’s Providence event and local reporting in March described more than 60 protests across the eastern U.S.
This week is also May Day prep
May Day Strong is a coalition that includes 50501, No Kings, Indivisible, the NEA, National Nurses United, and dozens more organizations. On May 1, we’re calling for a nationwide Workers Over Billionaires day of action: marches, rallies, and for those who are able, a refusal of business as usual through No School, No Work, No Shopping.
The May Day Strong event map is live.
The NEA’s May Day toolkit includes planning guidance, downloadable materials, and messaging for bringing coworkers, neighbors, and local groups into the day. Actions are planned in hundreds of cities. This week is the time to stop treating May Day as an idea and make a plan. If nothing is mapped near you yet, the toolkit explains how to register your own event.
Coming up next week
Workers Memorial Day is April 28, and the AFL-CIO already has its toolkit, event materials, and planning resources live. The ACLU’s April People Power Action Call is also that night. Then May 1 arrives with May Day Strong’s nationwide Workers Over Billionaires actions. You can use the May Day event map or the NEA toolkit to find a local action or help organize one.
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April 25 - No more ICE concentration camps!
May 1, no shopping, no working