Everywhere we look, the corporate billionaire class is tightening its grip — on our economy, on our politics, and even on our imaginations. Prices soar while wages stagnate. Corporations dodge taxes while our communities fight for schools, housing, and healthcare.

And through it all, the same few voices call the shots - because the system was built for them.

That’s why this May 1, 2026, Move to Amend is joining people across the country in the Workers Over Billionaires day of action organized by May Day Strong. Together with hundreds of labor unions, community groups, and national networks, we’re taking a stand for a simple but urgent truth: a democracy that serves the many cannot coexist with an economy rigged for the few.

Democracy Is on the Line - and So Are Our Lives

Every demand for democracy is also a struggle for economic justice. When corporations have constitutional rights and money is treated as speech, billionaires can buy political access and block the policies that working people need to survive, from living wages to housing to healthcare.

Corporate power isn’t an accident of capitalism; it’s a constitutional arrangement. The courts have granted “personhood” or "inalienable rights" to entities that were never alive, never voted, and never bled. Those same rights have been used to crush unions, poison communities, and silence dissent.

This May Day, we are taking those struggles for justice to the streets

What’s Happening on May 1: All across the country, working people, students, and families will mobilize under one shared message: Workers Over Billionaires.

There will be walkouts, rallies, marches, and refusals of business as usual to show what it looks like when the people who make this country run decide to demand a government that works for us - not for corporate profits.

May 1st isn’t just a holiday. It’s a historic tradition of workers asserting their power, from the Haymarket martyrs to the Day Without Immigrants in 2006. It’s a reminder that when we move together, the rules can change.

The struggle for democracy doesn’t stop at the ballot box. It lives in the organizing spaces, the picket lines, and the moments when people choose collective action over compliance.

By standing with May Day Strong, Move to Amend affirms what our movement has always known: to build a real democracy, we must challenge the concentration of wealth and power that distorts every public decision.

Corporate rule and billionaire dominance are two heads of the same hydra. The antidote is people power - organized, united, and unafraid.

Take Action

Here’s how you can stand with us on May 1:

• Sign the May Day Strong pledge: Maydaystrong.org
• Join Move to Amend’s campaign: Movetoamend.org/become_an_Advocate — help end corporate personhood and get big money out of politics.
• Find or host a local action in your community - rallies, teach-ins, or creative public displays of solidarity and share why you support Move to Amend and ask folks to sign the pledge. 
• Share why you’re participating using the hashtag #WorkersOverBillionaires and tag @MoveToAmend.

On May 1, we’re not asking for permission. We’re reclaiming the promise of democracy — a system rooted in human dignity, solidarity, and the power of the people to govern themselves.

Because when working people move together, we can change the rules. And when we do, democracy finally wins.