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Our network of grassroots groups is organizing in cities across the country to win good jobs, affordable homes, and thriving communities on a livable planet. Learn more & get email updates 👉 www.powerswitchaction.org

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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 15/09/2026
Midterms are around the corner. Trump is fixated on building DHS “voter lists.” He’s refused to rule out sending ICE to the polls. We expect to see attempts to keep people from voting. It’s time for Amazon to pick a side. They claim to be pro-democracy. We’re not buying it.
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 10/09/2026
The Postal Service should have no role in determining who is eligible to receive their ballot. We are calling on the USPS Board of Governors to stand with us and defend our right to vote.
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 29/07/2026
The Hidden Heist traces the two-century history of corporations and wealthy elites hijacking our democracy, as well as five state-specific case studies. The first case study focuses on Missouri, and the corporate assault on working people in the state: www.powerswitchaction.org/resources/th...
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 16/05/2026
Chicago has a message for Amazon: Pay what you owe our communities! This morning, Chicagoans disrupted business as usual at Amazon’s Bridgeport warehouse, calling out the corporation for fueling the fascists instead of funding our futures.
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 26/02/2026
NEW: Check out our popular education toolkit to help understand and dismantle the AI Surveillance Pipeline! It includes: ✅ a printable zine / board game ✅ videos featuring tech, policy, and labor experts ✅ a roundup of even more research, reports, and tools Explore it all at bit.ly/AIpipeline
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 30/01/2026
🎯🎯🎯 TOMORROW - SATURDAY 1/31 🎯🎯🎯 Join nonviolent actions at Target stores across the country to demand that corporation stand with Minnesotans! Target is a Minnesota company, and it’s time for it to pick a side. Find an action near you: bit.ly/target131
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 23/01/2026
🔥✊ Solidarity with Minnesotans from the streets of LA! From the West Coast to the Midwest to the East Coast, we demand #ICEout of our communities FOR GOOD! #iceoutofmn #iceoutofourcommunities @chirla-org.bsky.social @seiu721.bsky.social @unitehere.org @laaneorg.bsky.social @seiu2015.bsky.social
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 23/01/2026
✊ ALL EYES ON MINNESOTA ✊ We join with people across the state and the country in demanding #ICEout! As Minnesotans prepare for a historic general strike, join your friends and neighbors at a solidarity event near you: iceoutforgood.org #ICEoutofMN #ICEoutofourcommunities
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 22/01/2026
Last year we saw what AI on the job + in our communities can look like: automated management, surveillance, and algorithmic pricing. That's why we've been uniting workers across industries, researchers, and experts to confront how this tech is being used.👇 www.powerswitchaction.org/resources/20...
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 22/01/2026
Autocrats rely on fear, violence, and compliance. In 2025, our network jumped into action to challenge brazen attacks on our democracy and to support brave people and communities on the ground. Read about how our affiliates responded in Southern CA 👇 www.powerswitchaction.org/resources/20...
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 16/01/2026
💥 ACTION ALERT: This weekend, we’re coming together again to stand up to one of the corporations making sure ICE has what they need to occupy our cities and destroy our communities: Hilton Hotels. Come out and join a local action 👇 #NoICENoWar #WorkersOverBillionaires maydaystrong.org
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 14/01/2026
Hi! If you're searching for those cities and nothing is coming up, it may mean that there aren't actions planned / listed on the map (yet!). If you're interested, you can learn more about hosting your own action here: www.mobilize.us/mayday/c/nok... More actions are being planned for this weekend!
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 09/01/2026
We won't stand by while the Trump regime invades Venezuela and sends masked agents into our communities. TOMORROW (1/10): Join people all across the country & stand up to the corporations and billionaires that are getting rich while the rest of us struggle. More info: maydaystrong.org #NoIceNoWar
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 07/01/2026
An ICE agent just shot and killed a woman who was nonviolently monitoring federal agents in Minneapolis. This agent must be brought to justice, and ICE must get out of our communities. #ICEout
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 01/12/2025
The only #CyberMonday deal we care about is the one between Amazon and ICE. 🧊📦 ICE relies on Amazon's servers to surveil and terrorize our communities. That's why we're out with @athenaforall.bsky.social and allies making sure more people to know about it!
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 29/10/2025
Our friends at @athenaforall.bsky.social @mediajustice.bsky.social and @kairosfellows.bsky.social have been putting together valuable research and resources for organizers and everyday people to fight back. Like this organizer guide 👉 👉 👉 www.kairosfellows.org/fightdatacen...
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 14/10/2025
"Privacy-preserving" tech isn't as private as you think. And when corporations roll out new tech & AI, workers too often pay the price. Read about why we need a new generation of labor and tech protections: datasociety.net/library/the-... @datasociety.bsky.social
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 08/10/2025
Corporations call it "privacy-preserving," but this new AI tech isn't all that it seems. Our new brief w/@datasociety.bsky.social + CoWorker exposes how this tech harms + exploits workers and what we can do to strengthen worker protections + power in the digital age: datasociety.net/library/the-...
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 25/09/2025
Proud to join in solidarity and support @sbworkersunited.org as they fight for a fair contract! Baristas are the ones making drinks, keeping customers coming back, and bringing in profits. It's time for Starbucks to listen. ✊
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 16/09/2025
This Saturday (9/20): Join workers, organizers, @athenaforall.bsky.social and @notechforapartheid.bsky.social as they rally against Big Tech's data centers that are powering AI, raising energy bills, and polluting communities across the country. RSVP HERE: bit.ly/datacenterrally
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 01/08/2025
Israel is enacting the next phase of its genocide of the Palestinian people: forced famine. We cannot watch this man-made famine and genocide continue without raising our voices in opposition. Call Congress and tell your reps to demand our government stop backing Israel’s campaign of starvation.
Israel is enacting the next phase of its genocide of the Palestinian people: forced famine.

For months, Israel blocked humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, pushing the population of more than 2 million people towards starvation and sickness. In June, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, backed by Israel and the US, took over aid distribution from the UN and reduced the number of sites from 400 to four. 

Israeli soldiers have shot, wounded, and killed hundreds of Palestinians while they seek desperately-needed food and aid. They have been aided by US contractors who have fired bullets towards and lobbed stun grenades at people waiting for food. As a result of Israel’s blockade and military action, hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children and adults are starving to death.While our work is focused in the United States, we cannot watch this man-made famine and genocide continue without raising our voices in opposition. Nor can we advance multiracial feminist democracy in the US if we remain silent when our government and American corporations enable such atrocities.

We join leaders from the US and around the world in calling on the US government to immediately stop funding and arming Israel’s genocide, and to demand Israel open all border crossings and allow humanitarian aid into Gaza that meets the immense and desperate need.

Call Congress and tell your representatives to demand our government stop backing Israel’s campaign of starvation.
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 28/07/2025
🔥 THIS WEDNESDAY (7/30) AT 8PM ET! We’re proud to co-sponsor this powerful virtual event ft. movement leaders, impacted people, union organizers, and elected officials about what’s in the bill, why it passed, and how we fight forward. @pplsaction.bsky.social RSVP: www.crowdcast.io/c/fightforwa...
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 16/07/2025
Digital surveillance, algorithmic management, mandatory arbitration and class action waivers—these are all labor practices that Amazon uses to manage its Flex drivers. Read about how this exploitative model functions & how workers are fighting back in @nelp.org's new report 👇 bit.ly/AmazonFlexHa...
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 01/07/2025
"Drivers are rising up, organizing. We are not invisible, we are not powerless. Together we have the power to stop Uber and Lyft from mistreating drivers." Daryush with CA Gig Workers Union joins drivers, groups, and allies outside of Uber HQ in San Francisco 💥
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 01/07/2025
“It’s a beautiful day to fight corporate greed! Uber has been pioneering how to use AI to manipulate pay, and if they can do it to drivers, they can do it to all of us.” – Mariah Montgomery, our National Campaigns Director joins speakers at the Gig Workers Rising rally outside of Uber HQ
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 01/07/2025
We’re here today because Uber pioneered how to use AI to manipulate how much it pays drivers, and other corporations are already following suit. We’re seeing it in healthcare, retail, and engineering — this is about the future and dignity of ALL workers.
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 01/07/2025
In our survey of over 2,500 drivers, 78% said that driving for Uber feels like gambling—if a good fare comes up, that might keep us going. But more often than not, the pay is unpredictable day to day. Work shouldn’t be a gamble, and driver pay shouldn’t be determined by AI.
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 01/07/2025
NOW: Drivers w/ Gig Workers Rising are rallying at Uber HQ in San Francisco with labor leaders + allies to sound the alarm about AI on the job! Driver reports suggest that Uber’s AI-powered pay model pushes them to accept lower fares, and spend more time behind the wheel. We're here to say ENOUGH!
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 27/06/2025
Today is a sad day for America, for those of us who believe in justice, and for those of us who believe that America’s diversity is the bedrock for a thriving democracy.
Today is a sad day for America, for those of us who believe in justice, and for those of us who believe that America’s diversity is the bedrock for a thriving democracy.

PowerSwitch Action repudiates the cowardly decision by the Supreme Court to allow Trump’s blatantly unconstitutional executive order ending birthright citizenship to stand in many places across the country. Shame on the Court for yet again enabling the Trump regime’s autocratic push.

Trump’s executive order is a white supremacist policy intended to call into question the Americanness of Black and Brown citizens and our right to belong. It’s part of a desire to undo the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments. These are foundational principles of freedom forged through the crucible of war to end the crime of slavery. They are not up for debate.This order is part of the Trump regime’s attempt to reinstate a white supremacist notion of America. In LA and across the nation, Trump is sending masked agents backed by soldiers to tear people away from their families. The Court’s choices — to limit judges’ ability to intervene on behalf of everyone in our country, and to not shut down this unconstitutional order — are yet more attacks terrorizing immigrant families and assaulting freedom for all of us.

Our communities know what is right, and we know this is wrong. That’s why people all around the country are taking daily actions to protect and support our immigrant families and neighbors.Today’s rulings make even more clear that we must organize at a speed and scale greater than in most of our lifetimes. Courts are an important tool, but they will not be what stops authoritarianism. Our communities will.

We won’t abandon our siblings living in states that are, so far, allowing this order to go unchallenged, and we will not abandon each other anywhere — illegal executive orders, inadequate courts, and a Congress that is too busy cutting taxes for billionaires be damned.
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 26/06/2025
Conditions are so bad that 1 in 3 Uber drivers reported that during the last year they were hungry but did not eat because they could not afford food.
Graph showing that 35% of drivers reported hunger hardship in the past year. Drivers who rely more on the app to earn a living reported this more.
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 26/06/2025
Drivers’ survey responses suggest that Uber’s AI-driven pay traps them in a vicious cycle. 73% of drivers who declined low-fare rides in the past three months report that the app either slowed down their rides or their earnings went down because the app continued to offer them low-fare rides.
7 in 10 drivers report experiences that suggest Uber’s AI manipulates driver pay in ways that push drivers to accept lower fares or keep drivers on the road for longer. Photo of a driver holding a red sign reading "Uber drivers unite"
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 13/06/2025
“They’re coming for all of us. We are all in this situation together, but that is the way we come out of this.” — Sheheryar with the Warehouse Worker Resource Center
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 13/06/2025
“Growers and farmworker organizations don’t always agree, but right now we’re united in defending our freedoms.” — Lucas with CAUSE condemning ICE raids in farmworker communities that are tearing families apart.
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 11/06/2025
TODAY: CLEAN CarWash Worker Center held a press conference outside of the Culver City Express car wash location, where family members of workers abducted by ICE are demanding the immediate release of their loved ones. #FreeThemAll #EndICERaids @cpisandiego.bsky.social
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 09/06/2025
In LA, SF, Seattle, and across the country, we’re joining the thousands of people showing the Trump regime: - we see these ICE abductions for the violence they are - we will keep our communities whole - we will not be intimidated into submission #FreeDavidHuerta #FreeDavidEndRaids #FreeThemAll
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 09/06/2025
Right now the loved ones of those abducted are showing the truth: Trump is kidnapping our family members, our coworkers, our friends and neighbors. This is an assault on all of us.
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 09/06/2025
NOW: Trabajadores Unidos Workers United is hosting a press conference outside of Ambiance, an LA warehouse where several of the abducted people worked, to protest the kidnapping of more than 40 immigrant community members.
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 07/06/2025
We condemn the abductions and violence carried out by ICE yesterday in the Los Angeles area, and join in solidarity with the community leaders and groups who showed out to protest and defend our immigrant siblings.
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 07/05/2025
⚡️BIG NEWS: Green Social Housing just passed in Chicago! This is a *huge* win that residents and organizers with IL Green New Deal and @grassrootschi.bsky.social have been working towards for years: housing that's permanently affordable, environmentally sustainable, mixed-income AND tenant governed!
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 05/05/2025
🚨 Today, as Uber execs celebrate profits, drivers and advocates from across the US and around the world are joining together to release this statement criticizing the corporation for its inaction in the wake of the deportation of UberEats driver Ricardo Prada Vásquez:
As Uber Executives Celebrate Profits, Uber Drivers and Advocates Criticize the Corporation for Inaction in Wake of Deportation of UberEats Driver Ricardo Prada Vásquez 

“While Uber holds its annual shareholder meeting and CEO Dara Khosrowshahi regales shareholders with speeches and slideshows touting the growth and profitability of the corporation over the last year, Uber drivers are speaking out in solidarity with an immigrant driver recently abducted by the Trump administration.” “Despite actively recruiting and relying on a majority immigrant workforce to make its billions, Uber has failed to even acknowledge the detention and deportation to El Salvador of UberEats driver Ricardo Prada Vásquez while he was driving for Uber in March. Instead, the company has remained silent, failing to take any public steps to protect drivers from abduction and deportation.”“Khosrowshahi has proudly shared his own immigrant story and criticized Trump’s cruel immigration policies during his first term as president, but this go-around it’s clear that Uber’s CEO has made a different calculation. By refusing to stand up for and protect the immigrant drivers who make it profitable, Uber is showing us that literally nothing is more important to them than enriching executives and shareholders — no matter whose lives are destroyed.”The following joint statement the day of Uber’s shareholder meeting was released by:

ACE Collaborative of New Virginia Majority
Action Center on Race and the Economy
Amalgamated Union of App-Based Transporters of Nigeria (AUATON)
Chicago Gig Alliance & The People’s Lobby
Colorado Independent Drivers United - CWA Local 7777
Connecticut Drivers United
Drivers Union 
Gig and Platform Services Workers Union (GIPSWU) 
Gig Workers Rising
Los Deliveristas Unidos
PowerSwitch Action 
SEIU Local 26
Tennessee Drivers Union
Unión Nacional de Trabajadores por Aplicación UNTA México
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 02/05/2025
No treats for billionaire cheats. w/ @united4respect.bsky.social #MayDay #MayDayStrong #MayDay2025
People hold signs reading "May Amazon Pay" next to a dog with a sign reading "no treats for billionaire cheats"
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 02/05/2025
Just a few of the reasons it's time to make Amazon pay!
Poster with a drawing of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, with the words Make Amazon Pay
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 02/05/2025
While Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy get rich off of working people, Amazon is giving the Trump regime the tools to terrorize our communities. 🧵 #MayDay #MayDayStrong
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 02/05/2025
May Day is about more than history — it's about our future. We're out with our network and friends in cities all across the country building a movement that values people over profits. #MayDay2025
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 02/05/2025
No kings. No princes. No billionaire bosses. #MayDay #MayDayStrong #MayDay2025 @acrecampaigns.bsky.social @athenaforall.bsky.social
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 02/05/2025
#MayDay sign photo dump!
May Day march sign reading "Immigrants grow communities"May Day march sign reading "Workers unite to overthrow the bro-ligarchy. Immigrants make America great!"May Day march sign reading "We have nothing to fear, except our own billionaires"May Day march sign reading "Capitalism is why you're broke"
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 01/05/2025
Getting ready for NYC #MayDayStrong march with @alignny.bsky.social @athenaforall.bsky.social @united4respect.bsky.social. Monopoly man Bezos can't run fast enough to escape this crew!
Group photo around a banner and a cardboard cutout of Jeff Bezos as the Monopoly Man
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 01/05/2025
#MayDay in Philadelphia! @powerinterfaith.bsky.social's Rev Dr Gregory Edwards rallying the crowd here.
Rev. Dr. Gregory Edwards speaks to the crowd at Philadelphia's May Day rally. People hold signs reading "billionaires are defunding our lives" and "workers rights are human rights"
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 01/05/2025
No tech kings! No Sith emperors! #MayDay2025 #MayDayStrong #Maythe4th @laaneorg.bsky.social @athenaforall.bsky.social
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PowerSwitch Action ⚡️ @powerswitchaction.org · 01/05/2025
Solidarity with workers, immigrants, and our trans siblings ALWAYS! ✊❤️‍🔥✊❤️‍🔥✊❤️‍🔥 #MayDay2025 #MayDayStrong @laaneorg.bsky.social @athenaforall.bsky.social
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