Communities over Cages Saturday
Join us for a rally and march on Saturday, April 25th from 3:00pm-4:30pm at Issaquah City Hall as part of a nationwide day of action to oppose the Trump administration’s purchase and expansion of ICE warehouse detention centers and its attack on the due process rights of immigrants and all Americans. Bring a sign. Bring your neighbors. Bring your voice.
The Department of Homeland Security wants to lock up thousands of people in massive detention warehouses — disappearing them from their families, their lawyers, and their communities. Gather with us to:
- Show visible, public opposition to ICE detention expansion and the criminalization of immigration
- Stand in solidarity with detained immigrants and the communities fighting to protect them
- Demand that our elected officials defend due process for everyone
Please note that this rally replaces our weekly 12:30 sign-wave.
More warehouses can only mean more unlawful arrests. Read about the steady increase in WA and sudden increase in arrests in the recent UW Center for Human Rights report about Immigration Enforcement here in the Pacific Northwest in late 2025. There is also a UW symposium on immigration enforcement in the Pacific Northwest which you can attend either in person or online on May 14th. Learn more and register for the symposium here.
May Day: No Work. No school. No shopping.
Then on Friday, May 1st, we will join May Day Strong labor groups, and other allies to flex our economic power for a day of economic disruption. There are many ways you can take action, from refusing to shop, to walking out of work, to attending a demonstration.
If we’re serious about resisting what the Trump administration and the billionaire class is doing, we must start to flex our collective economic muscle. The power lies in our hands, no matter what the Trump regime tells us.
Why Take Action on May Day?
- We want our tax dollars to go to schools and housing, not to sending federal agents into our cities to attack and kill our neighbors.
No one should live under ICE violence or militarized occupation, period. Our tax dollars should fund stability and care, not occupation and repression. - Democracy should work for working people, not billionaire interests.
While working families are stretched to the brink, billionaires and corporations are posting record profits and hoarding the wealth our labor creates. That money should be funding housing, schools, healthcare, and the public goods that make life livable. - The Corporations and the ultra-rich have rigged the system and it won’t get un-rigged unless people take big actions together.
Corporations and the ultra-wealthy are rigging the rules to protect their power and shut the rest of us out. A government captured by billionaire interests will not solve a crisis that benefits them without us making it.
Will you take action on May 1, by showing up, by stepping back from business as usual, and by helping others do the same? Here are steps you can take:
- Sign the pledge to participate however you can on the day of economic disruption.
- Read about the Real Affordability Agenda, a policy blueprint and organizing roadmap to lower costs, raise wages, and fund the basics working families rely on by making billionaires and corporations pay what they owe.
- Learn about and join the Resist and Unsubscribe movement
- Show up for the Sign wave in Issaquah or Find an Event Near You
Issaquah May Day 2026: Workers Over Billionaires
Friday, May 1st @12:30pm-1:30pm
Join the Concerned Voters in front of the Issaquah Library. This will be a joyous May Day event with singing and May Baskets for those passing on the street. We need everyone to express solidarity so bring a friend and join us for a wonderful May Day.
