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USA Organizing Calendar - April 16 to May 1

From No Kings to May Day: Here's April's Organizing Calendar. (via 50501) April is being spent on local coordination, skills training, institutional targeting, and building capacity that determines how large and how effective May Day will be when it arrives. We will be going deeper on several of these in the days ahead and how these actions can make a difference in our communities.
April 11–25 | We Are America March The We Are America March is a 160-mile march running from April 11 through April 25. Participation options include joining as a core marcher for the full distance, or joining for a single day or weekend segment. This is a multi-day action with incredible volunteers and messaging to connect community and defend democracy. April 16 | De-ICE Citizens Bank National Mobilization Call The De-ICE Citizens Bank campaign is holding a national organizing call on April 16, 7–8 PM EDT for both existing participants and people looking to get involved ahead of Citizens Bank's April 23 shareholder meeting. The campaign identifies Citizens Bank as a direct financial partner of CoreCivic and The GEO Group, two of the largest private operators of ICE detention facilities in the country. This is economic accountability enforced at a corporate governance moment. April 17 | National Day of Action for Higher Education The Coalition for Action in Higher Education is holding its third annual national day of action on April 17, organized around protests and teach-ins on campuses across the country. The 2024 action involved more than 100 campus events; 2025 involved more than 200. The coalition's explicit goals are higher education that is freely accessible to the public and free of political interference, two conditions under active threat through federal funding freezes, administrative purges, and executive pressure on university leadership. (Lots more online events from this group at the link!) April 18–22 | Earth Week / Earth Day Actions Earthday.org is running coordinated events from April 18 through Earth Day on April 22, with a public event finder and registration tools on its site. The current administration has moved aggressively to roll back environmental regulation, withdraw from international climate commitments, and open protected lands to extraction. Earth Week actions this year are taking place inside a broader democratic crisis. April 20 | Indivisible Train-the-Trainer: Immigrants' Rights No Kings and Indivisible Train-the-Trainer session on April 20 at 8 PM EDT The session is designed to equip participants to train others on core Know Your Rights topics on the right to remain silent, the right to refuse consent to searches, and the right to record ICE and other law enforcement officials. It's being offered in partnership with the ACLU and Indivisible. This is not a rally or an awareness event. It's skill transmission building capacity to protect neighbors. This event belongs in a category separate from protest mobilizations, and it matters more than its profile suggests. April 23 | People's Shareholder Meeting to De-ICE Citizens Bank The De-ICE campaign is directing supporters to a Providence, Rhode Island action on April 23 timed to Citizens Bank's annual shareholder meeting. Supporters who can't travel to Providence can find coordinated local branch actions through the campaign's event map. Shareholder meetings are among the few formal accountability moments in corporate governance. Demonstrating organized, public, visible opposition at that moment rather than in general, is the strategy behind this campaign. April 28 | Workers Memorial Day Workers Memorial Day, observed annually on April 28, is a day of remembrance and action organized by the AFL-CIO for workers killed or injured on the job. The AFL-CIO publishes toolkits and planning resources for local observances. In 2026, Workers Memorial Day arrives inside a moment when workplace safety protections are being actively dismantled at the federal level. It is a stronger late-April anchor than it typically receives credit for, and it connects labor organizing directly to the May Day moment that follows just four days later. April 28 | ACLU People Power Action Call The ACLU's People Power network is hosting a national action call on April 28 at 8 PM ET / 5 PM PT. For readers who want a structured national entry point into ongoing civil liberties organizing, this is a well-resourced option. Ongoing through April 30 | NDLON: Adopt a Day Labor Corner / Adopt a School NDLON's ongoing solidarity campaign asks people to establish a regular physical presence at hiring corners, Home Depots, car washes, delis, and day-labor centers where immigrant workers are most exposed to enforcement action. The campaign also supports schools serving immigrant students and families who may be vulnerable to raids, harassment, or intimidation. The explicit premise of the NDLON model is that sustained, visible community presence has a deterrent effect and that building it requires showing up repeatedly, not just once. Trainings, toolkits, and local event listings are available through their Mobilize profile.
posted by subdee on Apr 15, 2026 at 7:03 PM

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And another one not on the calendar:

April 20 | Stop the Madness: A Call for Data Center Moratoria

Third Act and its partners are calling for local and national moratoria to stop the rapid, unchecked building of 'hyperscale' data centers, which are intended to accelerate speculative AI projects. This 60-minute webinar will explore legal strategies local residents can effectively use to halt data center permitting and construction.

They say:
The current call for moratoria in building hyperscale data centers throughout the nation is to allow for the development and implementation of sound environmental policy and prudent economic policy. If not, the industry will continue to rush into agreements with local governments to acquire land, water and electricity to meet massive energy needs. These agreements are loaded with ratepayer subsidies, access to precious water sources, and promises to supply energy that feeds into the fossil fuel industry's narrative that to keep this technology running we have to put a pause on dealing with climate change for now. Third Act supports moratoria to afford us necessary time to get it right before irreparable harm is done to the environment and the economy.

It's organized by Third Act, Public Citizen and Food and Water Watch. I used to canvas for Food and Water Watch, years and years ago, it was miserable work but they are very active and effective organizers.
posted by subdee at 7:31 PM

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This seems a good place to urge everyone ASAP to contact their senators and tell them to vote no on H.J. Res. 140, which is coming up for a final vote in the Senate tomorrow (Thursday) morning at 11am EDT. It's a very close vote right now and we only need one or two to tip the balance.

This bill if passed will permanently remove restrictions on metallic sulfide (copper-nickel) mining inside the watershed of the Boundary Waters Wilderness of northern Minnesota, which will almost certainly lead to heavy metals leaching into one of the crown jewels of the US Wilderness system. Opening up the northern Minnesota wilderness to sulfide mining has long been on the Republican wish list and was one of first things Trump pushed for when he took office.

Senator Tim Sheehy of Montana might be one of the persuadable ones, as he grew up in Minnesota and has canoed the Boundary Waters. But Senators McCormick, Young, Boozman, Johnson, Graham, Collins, Murkowski, Moran, Ernst, and Grassley might also possibly be swayed with enough pressure. If any of these are your senators, please give their offices a call tonight or first thing in the morning!

Minnesota's Senator Tina Smith has been holding the floor for a few hours this evening in protest of HJ Res. 140.
posted by theory at 8:46 PM

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Thank you SO MUCH for this post and info, subdee, and ditto to you, theory, for the warning about H.J. Res. 140!
posted by Bella Donna at 2:42 AM

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You're welcome, all... I've decided the best thing I can do is organize with other staff at the school where I work... recently one of the students here (an 18 year old) was picked up by ICE and no one knows where they're being held. Other students are living with extended family because their parents were picked up. We need something like the NDLON campaign here, but at the very least we need to be talking with each other and building consensus here.
posted by subdee at 8:43 AM

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Thank you for this. I see that the mining ban was repealed, which sucks.
posted by caviar2d2 at 8:46 AM

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