The first May Day of the Trump era saw scores of major actions in cities across the United States (http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/20095/may_day_protesters_demonstrate_in_defiant_show_of_force), but perhaps the most impressive demonstration of worker power took place in the small city of Reading, Pennsylvania. There, 127 stores—about three-quarters of the businesses in the city—shut down in protest (http://www.wfmz.com/news/berks/more-than-100-businesses-to-strike-on-may-day/465421581), and an additional 500 mostly agricultural and construction workers participated in the general strike, according to organizers. The protest even spread to nearby Allentown, where two dozen more stores closed for the day.
Spearheaded by Make the Road Pennsylvania (http://www.maketheroadpa.org/), a community group that organizes working-class Latinos, the strike was a protest of the county sheriff’s plan (https://www.facebook.com/events/454840021514255/) to authorize his deputies to act as immigration agents, in cooperation with the Trump administration’s assault on immigrants. While Berks County is one of the economically depressed areas that carried Trump to a win in Pennsylvania, the people of Reading are as unlikely to support his vision for “making America great again” as they are to agree that “America is already great.”
Although the majority of Reading’s residents are Latino, and another significant percentage of the population is African-American, Reading’s mayor and city council are almost entirely white, thanks to a combination of gerrymandering and the political donor class. That’s where the idea of hitting decision-makers in the wallet developed.


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