Sylvia Ruiz

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.

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.

Uber's Inequality Machine Data on How AI-Driven Pay is Harming Workers and What We Can Do to Push Back

Imagine going to work each day not knowing how much you’ll get paid. If you’re an Uber driver, you face that grim scenario every day.

Our new report based on a survey of 2,500 drivers paints a bleak picture of what it's like to work at the whim of AI.

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Whose streets? OUR streets. 🚫👑

#NoKings
#MOworkers
#StandUpKC

#NoKings #NoICE #NoBillionaires #ImmigrantsAreWelcome vibes in Sacramento

Illinois follows the law — we expect the federal government to follow the law, too.

We won't participate in abuses of power.
We won't violate court orders.
We won't ignore the Constitution.
We won't defy the Supreme Court.
We won't take away people’s right to peacefully protest.

LA is home to nearly a million undocumented immigrants. If you live here, you know someone living that reality whether you know it or not.

It’s part of what makes this city what it is—and no, we’re not living in fear because of them.

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

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.

BREAKING: Los Angeles protests erupt over ongoing ICE raids. NBC News' @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social reports on the ground on @allinwithchris.bsky.social.

EVERYBODY WATCH.

ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL.

Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today.

He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader.

Don’t turn away.

When ICE comes into our neighborhoods targeting our communities and hurting our leaders, we show up! United. Organized. Ready to protect families.

NJ mayor arrested while protesting opening of ICE detention center The mayor of Newark was arrested Friday at an ICE detention facility in New Jersey where congressional leaders had scheduled an afternoon “oversight” visit.

This is outrageous. ICE just arrested Mayor Ras Baraka of Newark, NJ outside a private prison corporation’s $1 billion detention facility that the City says is violating local laws. The Mayor was with Congress members investigating the facility.

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⚡️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!

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

🚨 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:

Blue and orange graphic with Action News headline that reads: "Uber Uber Eats driver reportedly deported to El Salvador after making wrong turn. After crossing the border, Vasquez was taken into custody by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol authorities and deported to El Salvador. Reports show he had permission to enter the country through the CBP One app and was waiting for an appointment with immigration. Because he left the country, officials said his status was invalid." Text below the article reads: "Uber depends on immigrant drivers. It needs to stand up against abductions."

Uber relies on a majority immigrant workforce to make its billions – drivers like Ricardo Prada who was detained and deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration without due process. It’s time for Uber to speak out against this injustice and protect drivers from abduction and deportation.

While the Trump regime scapegoats immigrants, Amazon is partnering with ICE and profiting from technology to terrorize and abduct people. We want safety, not surveillance!
That’s why I’m on the streets today #MayDay2025 #HeretoStay #HomeisHere maydaystrong.org

‼️✊ ALL OUT FOR MAY DAY ✊‼️

Tomorrow we're taking to the streets to support workers’ rights, to protest the policies of the Trump-Musk authoritarian regime, and to join in solidarity with our immigrant and trans communities. #MayDay2025

Find an action near you 👉 maydaystrong.org

💪 Workers power Amazon! This #MayDay, we’re fighting back against Bezos, Trump and his billionaire buddies who put profits over people. We stand with Amazon workers demanding dignified wages and safety! Join @powerswitchaction.org at an action near you maydaystrong.org

Cloudy with a Loss of Spending Control: How Data Centers Are Endangering State Budgets - Good Jobs First Cloudy with a Loss of Spending Control: How Data Centers Are Endangering State Budgets - Good Jobs First

NEW: At least 10 states lose more than $100 million per year in tax revenue to data centers. The loss of revenue is surely worse than we can yet document — of the 32 states with data center tax incentives, 12 fail to disclose even *aggregate* revenue losses.
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The Tax Debate: What’s in It for Jeff Bezos and Amazon CEO Andrew Jassy New research reveals Amazon executives’ huge windfalls from the last big tax reform.

New @ips-dc.org report w/@powerswitchaction.org & @athenaforall.bsky.social on Amazon execs' windfalls from rigged tax code:

$6.2B: Bezos savings from discounted cap gains rate
$86B: Bezos heirs' gains if estate tax eliminated
72%: Amazon workers with $0 in 401k

inequality.org/article/tax-...

Amazon and Our Rigged Tax System The stakes in the tax debate for the corporation and its executives vs. workers and small businesses.

NEW: Jeff Bezos has saved $6.2 BILLION from the discounted capital gains tax rate since the 2017 tax reform.

As Congress pushes MORE corporate tax giveaways, the IPS @inequality.org team, @powerswitchaction.org, and @athenaforall.bsky.social expose how Amazon execs have been raking it in. REPORT:

Amazon and Our Rigged Tax System New analysis reveals how Amazon and its top executives exploit tax loopholes—raking in profits at the expense of everyday workers and small businesses.

"To stop autocracy, we need to challenge the corporations and billionaires enabling and benefitting from oligarchy, not give them more tax breaks," says our ED @laurenrants.bsky.social

New research produced w/ @ips-dc.org & @athenaforall.bsky.social 👇
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Opinion: Green social housing is a radical fix for Chicago's housing and climate crisis If Chicago doesn’t act swiftly, we risk being left behind, suffocating from both a lack of affordable housing and deteriorating environmental conditions.

"Local control, a true redistribution of wealth, and a model for other cities to follow..."

This is what green social housing could look like in Chicago 👇
www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/gree...
@grassrootschi.bsky.social

Amazon may not have the best customer service or the lowest prices, but it’s really good at avoiding taxes by funneling profits into overseas tax havens like Luxembourg – something mom-and-pop stores can’t afford to do.

National Day of Action They want to erase labor rights, break our unions, and silence immigrant voices. This May Day we are fighting back. Stand with us.

After April 19th can folks turn out for May Day actions across the country? maydaystrong.org

Our Homes Are Not Your Tax Cuts: HUD Teach-in · Peoples Action Institute The Trump Administration is working with Congress to dismantle the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD). This will not only eliminate and reduce essential resources for our families a...

TOMORROW - APRIL 8: Our Homes Are Not Your Tax Cuts!

Join us @aforhj.org @pplsactioninst.bsky.social @popdemoc.bsky.social and Right to the City for a teach-in about HUD's significance, new proposed housing cuts, and what we can do about it.

Tune in at 7:30pm ET ➡️ www.mobilize.us/peoplesactio...

📢💥 Happening tomorrow in cities across the US 💥 📢

We'll be out there in solidarity and support of federal workers! ✊ #SaveOurServices

The Senate report on Amazon's safety practices reads like a horror movie.

Shareholders & corporations can actually fight authoritarianism & can actually ensure that workers benefit & thrive from the profits they create . #ThankYouCostco #abetterwayispossible #resist

What protest songs should we all be knowing, internalizing, going deep into our bones and souls with it as an actual practice to keep us whole, and building community with? Imagine bird dogging folks and people just belting out songs..let’s get creative folks and become irresistible #resist