LETTER: May Day strike to protest affordability, wealth inequality crisis
April 27, 2026
By Paul Friedman, Clare Potter, Brooke Tenney, Don Tenney, Nancy Beach, Hunt Gressitt
To the Editor:
National activist organizations are calling for a general May Day strike to protest an administration that is accelerating the affordability and wealth inequality crisis in our country. This crisis cuts across partisan barriers as an unfair burden on all Americans who work for a living.
Making Waves Castine and Indivisible Peninsula support the strike with a strategy designed for Maine’s rural communities that does not cause further harm to local struggling economies.
We believe that economic protests are an important step in rebuilding a civil society that does not prey on its own and restores the promise of a government of the people, by the people, for the people.
We pledge to resist by unsubscribing from online and streaming services provided by “Big Tech” (META, Google, Amazon, etc.) that have given financial support to the Trump administration and operational support to ICE. These companies are susceptible to revenue slowdown and unsubscribing will have a lasting impact beyond May Day.
A coordinated unsubscribe campaign will send a clear May Day warning to Big Tech CEOs in the language that they and this administration understand best.
We invite our neighbors to join us in supporting the May Day Strike. Review the list of companies whose CEOs have failed their civic duty to defend the society that has enriched them and pledge to unsubscribe.
For details on the pledge and the list of companies to boycott, visit https://indivisiblepeninsula.mailerpage.io/events.
For details on the strategy created by Professor Scott Galloway, NYU School of Business, visit https://www.resistandunsubscribe.com
-Paul Friedman, Castine; Clare Potter, Brooksville; Brooke Tenney, Castine; Don Tenney, Castine; Nancy Beach, Castine; Hunt Gressitt, Blue Hill
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