This Week in Action | April 27-May 3, 2026
The work continues this week, from warehouse detention protests to May Day Strong. More than 3,500 May Day actions are already planned across the country.
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More than 200 demonstrations happened last Saturday. May Day is this Friday.
This past Saturday, more than 150 events in at least 33 states mobilized against the Trump administration’s expansion of warehouse-style ICE detention facilities, with more than 200 demonstrations organized nationwide by coalitions including the Disappeared in America network, Detention Watch Network, Indivisible, MoveOn, and Public Citizen. Hundreds gathered in Romulus, Michigan to march to the roughly 261,000-square-foot warehouse being converted near Detroit Metro Airport. Over 100 gathered in San Antonio in front of a proposed 640,000-square-foot facility that would hold up to 1,500 people. These are communities standing at the fence lines of warehouses built for cargo that are being converted to hold human-beings.
This week’s actions and how to join them
Monday, April 27 | Make your May Day plan
The anchor for this week is May Day Strong, the nationwide Workers Over Billionaires day of action on Friday, May 1. Rallies, marches, teach-ins, labor actions, and, for those who are able, a refusal of business as usual through No Work, No School, No Shopping. More than 3,500 actions are planned across the country.
Find your event on the May Day Strong map and search by city or ZIP code. If there is no event near you yet, the site also includes a host toolkit and a pledge for people who want to join without hosting.
Not everyone can safely miss work or can keep a child home from school. There are many ways to participate. Attending before or after your shift, helping with rides, avoiding shopping for the day, printing signs, or sharing on social media, these all add up.
Tuesday, April 28 | Workers Memorial Day
Tuesday is Workers Memorial Day, the day labor movements use to remember workers killed, injured, or made sick on the job and recommit to the fight for safer workplaces. The AFL-CIO has 2026 materials, toolkits, and event-planning resources available now.
Workers are not disposable! A country that protects billionaire profits while working people are injured, underpaid, and treated as replaceable is not a healthy democracy. Look for a local labor council, union, or AFL-CIO event near you. If there is nothing nearby, use the day to uplift and support workers in your own community who keep everything running.
ACLU People Power Action Call
Also Tuesday, the ACLU is holding its April People Power Action Call from 8:00 to 9:00 PM ET / 5:00 to 6:00 PM PT. The call is to help connect with volunteer teams and upcoming civil-liberties work. This is a good entry point for those who are not sure where they fit. Not everyone starts with a march and some people start by listening in on a call, learning more, and finding what matches their capacity.
Wednesday, April 29 | TPS at the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Mullin v. Doe and Trump v. Miot, the consolidated cases challenging the Trump administration’s termination of Temporary Protected Status for Syria and Haiti. The ACLU of Northern California explains what is at stake: the Court’s ruling could affect not only the roughly 350,000 Haitian and 6,000 Syrian TPS holders at the center of these cases, but the future of TPS protections for 1.3 million people from all 17 TPS-designated countries. The administration is asking the Court to make TPS decision-making entirely unreviewable by the judicial system.
These are people who built entire lives here under the law as it existed, with work authorization, mortgages, children who are American citizens, and decades of community ties.
What to do Wednesday: if you are near Washington, D.C., TPS families and immigrant-rights advocates are expected to rally outside the Supreme Court during oral arguments. If you are not nearby, read and share the ACLU’s explainer, amplify the National TPS Alliance, NDLON, CARECEN-LA, Haitian community organizations, Syrian community organizations, and local immigrant-rights groups, and call or email your members of Congress asking them to support permanent protections for TPS holders and oppose any effort to strip legal status from people who have built lives here under existing law.
May Day: Solidarity in Action training
Also on Wednesday, Indivisible is hosting a national training called May Day: Solidarity in Action Wednesday evening from 8:00 to 9:00 PM ET. Decide what your participation looks like and make the commitment before Friday arrives.
Thursday, April 30 | FISA Section 702 deadline
Thursday is the deadline for the short-term extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. AP reported that Trump signed a temporary extension through April 30 after longer renewal efforts collapsed, setting up another fight in Congress over surveillance powers.
Section 702 is often described as foreign-intelligence surveillance, but the controversy is that communications involving Americans can be swept in when Americans interact with foreign targets. AP notes that critics want changes including warrants before authorities can access Americans’ emails, calls, or texts.
5 Calls has an active call script ready to use. Call your members of Congress and ask them not to extend Section 702 without meaningful warrant protections for Americans’ private communications. The Brennan Center also has current resources on the reauthorization fight. This is a strong action for those who can’t attend in-person events this week. Use 5 Calls to call your members of Congress, use the ACLU’s action tool to email your House representative and senators, or send a letter through Action Network. The ask is simple: do not extend Section 702 without meaningful warrant protections for Americans’ private communications.
Legal fights and congressional deadlines can make us feel like the action is happening somewhere far away, behind doors most of us can’t enter. But we still has a clear role. We can peacefully show up outside the courthouse. We can amplify the people directly affected. We can call Congress when legal protections need legislative backup. And we can make sure these cases don’t pass quietly while families are waiting to find out if the law will recognize the lives they’ve built here.
Friday, May 1 | May Day Strong: Workers Over Billionaires
On Friday, we rally, march, and take action.
No Work, No School, No Shopping.
The coalition’s demands include taxing the rich, ending ICE operations and private armies serving authoritarian power, and expanding democracy. The NEA’s May Day Toolkit includes planning guidance, downloadable materials, and messaging for bringing coworkers, neighbors, parents, and local groups into the day.
May Day is a democracy action. It is an immigration action. It is a healthcare and schools and climate and corruption action.
Find your action: May Day Strong event map
Download organizing resources: NEA May Day Toolkit
Sign or share the pledge: Indivisible May Day page
Saturday, May 2 and Sunday, May 3 | Don’t let the action disappear
If you attend May Day, take the next step before the weekend ends.
Post your photos.
Write down what your city did.
Share the local organizer’s link.
Join the group that hosted it.
If there is no big action near you
Use 5 Calls and choose active issue(s). Use Indivisible’s group finder and event finder to locate organizing in your county. Check the May Day Strong map again later in the week, new events are often added closer to the date.
And if your town has nothing listed, that’s not a reason to step back.
It may be the reason to become the person who posts the first link.
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If someone you know has been asking what they can do next, this week has several options.
Our Great Books Club meets that day, but we'll do a potluck rather than go to a restaurant afterwards. No money being spent on May 1.
Bringing family and friends to city hall protest