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BumRushDaShow

(165,199 posts)
Thu Aug 7, 2025, 04:49 AM Aug 2025

'You're right to be scared': Mass protest planned to 'expose' Trump agenda

Source: Raw Story

August 6, 2025 5:51PM ET


On Labor Day this year, unions and workers' rights groups are calling on advocates to forgo the traditional barbecues and picnics known for ending the summer season, and to instead hold thousands of nationwide rallies "to expose the billionaire agenda" that's harming working families and fueling U.S. President Donald Trump's authoritarian rise.

Unions representing teachers and other workers are joining with other advocacy organizations to turn Labor Day 2025 on September 1 into "a day of protest and recruitment," and an opportunity to fortify their national campaigns against Trump's attacks on healthcare, Social Security, and other safety net programs.

With the Trump administration overseeing mass firings in the federal government and gutting worker protections and social services in the interest of transferring more than $1 trillion in tax breaks to the richest 1% of Americans, groups including Public Citizen and Popular Democracy will spend the holiday "connecting with 30 million workers, training thousands of new leaders to create 'strike ready' cities and states, and supporting each others' local fights to stop abuses in the workplace," according to the former group.

"The Trump regime is perpetrating the most anti-union, anti-worker agenda in modern American history," said Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-protests-2673864988/

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'You're right to be scared': Mass protest planned to 'expose' Trump agenda (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Aug 2025 OP
I'm in BoRaGard Aug 2025 #1
It will be hard for me slightlv Aug 2025 #2
Thanks for posting Klaus Hergersheimer Aug 2025 #3
Same situation, same intention. Paladin Aug 2025 #4
Same here, friend. murielm99 Aug 2025 #5
Darn I'm leaving that day to take my son on vacation for his birthday. kimbutgar Aug 2025 #6

slightlv

(7,403 posts)
2. It will be hard for me
Thu Aug 7, 2025, 07:47 AM
Aug 2025

My lupus has barely let me have a few days between flares. But I'm in too. There's nothing more important than getting as many bodies as possible out on the streets, IMO.

 
3. Thanks for posting
Thu Aug 7, 2025, 09:23 AM
Aug 2025

Despite being 77 with many medical issues count me in! This old liberal will continue to fight the fascists for as long as I can.

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