MAY DAY STRONG: PEOPLE OF FAITH RISING

Join EcoFaith in turning out your community to the May Day Strong event nearest you

This May Day, people across the country are coming together to take action for a more just, life-giving future.

EcoFaith is a co-sponsor of May Day Strong because EcoFaith  leaders believe this is an opportunity to live out our deepest values:

  • to care for one another,
  • to protect the most vulnerable, and
  • to act together for the flourishing of all life and all peoples

WHY MAY DAY MATTERS

Across the country, people are rising together to say:
our communities matter more than profit
our democracy matters more than concentrated power
our future depends on how we care for one another now

To get the attention of those in power and demonstrate that there is still power in the people, on May 1 (International Workers’ Day), we are joining others across the country calling for:

  • **No work**
  • **No school**
  • **No shopping**

Mass noncooperation takes coordination, training, and sustained effort. It takes all of us, talking to our neighbors, building relationships, and getting organized. And then, at a certain point, it becomes real and substantial enough to make mass change.

Noncooperation is simple in principle: we withhold our labor, our money, and our participation.

WE DON’T GO  ALONG.

May Day has long been a day honoring the dignity of workers and the power of collective action.

This May Day, it is becoming something more: a moment to step out of isolation and into shared purpose.

TAKE ACTION

1. Find a May Day Event Near You

FOR THOSE IN OREGON
EcoFaith is aligning our Oregon organizing with Together Lab which is standing alongside PCUN, Oregon’s farmworker union, in their efforts to organize monthly “Day Without an Immigrant” gatherings. If you would like more details about how you can connect with, work with or meet up with fellow EcoFaith leaders in Salem and elsewhere, CLICK HERE.

FOR THOSE ANYWHERE IN THE US 
Please email EcoFaith if you are hosting a May Day Strong action and would like to invite other EcoFaith leaders in your area to participate in. To find a May Day Strong event near your or get your event publicized via the national May Day Strong website, CLICK HERE. To find a toolkit of resources for hosting or publicizing your own event, CLICK HERE.

2. Bring Your Community With You
Invite members of your congregation, neighborhood, or social network to join you.
Show up together. Act together. Reflect together.
This is how movements grow.

3. Organize your Community with fellow EcoFaith Leaders
Join EcoFaith leaders and communities as we organize our communities to participate in May Day Strong and other important work. 

 

This will be the focus of

ECOFAITH’S AWAKENING LEADERSHIP GATHERING 

Thursday, April 23

8:45–10:15 am PT (11:45 am–1:15 pm ET). 

To attend, email office@ecofaithrecovery.org to RSVP and receive the Zoom link.

This is a weekly space to:

  • deepen spiritual grounding
  • discover our stories
  • build relationships
  • organize our communities together

A MOMENT OF HOPE

EcoFaith is a co-sponsor of May Day Strong, and we are joining this movement in a way that reflects who we are. 

We are not just showing up to protest. 

We are showing up to practice a different way of being together.

If you are a person of faith, consider being visible as a person of faith so that Christian nationalists are not the only voices speaking for faith-based communities.

We are committed to showing up in ways that reflect our deepest values:

  • Nonviolence — We seek to de-escalate conflict and act with courage and compassion
  • Grounding — We stay connected to our bodies, our breath, and what matters most
  • Belonging — We look out for one another and make space for all people
  • Moral Clarity — We stand for dignity, justice, and the flourishing of all life

This is how we embody the world we are working toward.

THIS IS NOT JUST A DAY OF ACTION. IT IS A MOMENT TO REMEMBER WHO WE ARE.

We belong to one another.

We are part of a living, interconnected world.

And together, we have the power to shape a future rooted in justice, dignity, and care.

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MAY 1 2026 TAKE ACTION NATIONWIDE