Incredible forms of resistance have accompanied the past year and a half of ICE terror, economic crisis, and attacks on basic freedoms across the U.S. Days of rioting followed ICE raids in Los Angeles and demonstrations spread across the country. In Atlanta, thousands gathered off of Buford Highway to protest and fight in solidarity with Chicanos fighting on the West Coast. Then ICE surged in New Orleans, Chicago, and elsewhere. Nothing seemed capable of mounting a serious enough response to the federal government’s xenophobic advances until ICE moved to Minneapolis. Thousands of people organized themselves there to fight. The administration offered to draw back agents in exchange for Minneapolis and Minnesota voter records. A few days later, the Fulton County voter office was raided by the FBI. Where and how ICE or the National Guard will be deployed next is unclear.

In response to backfiring tariffs, stagnant markets, and rising inflation, the Trump administration has fallen back on a common recourse: War. Attempting to reassert U.S. interests in the world economy by bombing its adversaries and competitors.

Trump’s policies, foreign and domestic, seem to almost be driven by whims. Massive departments are laid off and reorganized. What starts as a small operation has cascading effects with uncertain conclusions. Decisions are made only to be reversed a week later. The midterm elections are approaching fast as the anxiety builds.

Despite Atlanta’s progressive image, private interests direct policy unobstructed. Cop City is open and running, historic neighborhoods are destroyed to make way for more luxury apartments, new plans are proposed for data centers in poor areas across the city and state, and Flock watches every corner. In order for things to change, we need a social and political revolution. Without organization, things will only get worse. What are the steps necessary to take to build a society that isn’t based on extraction and consumption, on domination and control? How can we fight against local agencies and the federal government alike?

Join us for Maydays: A month to meet each other for discussions, debates, and political strategizing. We want to prioritize invitational open collaborative discussions that coheres us around shared analysis, goals, strategies. We want to talk to everyone in the city who is fed up: healthcare workers, delivery drivers, engineers, teachers, students, and elders.

We invite you to get organized with the people around you who share your visions. Host conversations, debates, and political education events on anything from labor issues in your workplace, anti-surveillance and anti-carceral campaigns, ways to build logistical support for movements, or revolutionary history presentations or movie screenings. What are you already working on in Atlanta that you want to share with others? What do we need work on together? What needs to happen that isn’t happening now to advance the interests of working people in the city? To prepare for increasing political turmoil? What can we learn from movements that have recently unfolded in Atlanta? Or elsewhere? How can we build off of their successes and failures alike?