Voting rights protests: List of October events calling on Amazon, Target, and more to defend democracy against Trump

The May Day Strong coalition is calling on corporations, particularly those with ties to President Donald Trump—such as Amazon, JP Morgan Chase, Target, and Palantir—to defend voting rights ahead of next month’s U.S. midterm elections. The group, a federation of labor and community organizers, is best known for sponsoring last year’s May 1 anti-Trump protests, which drew tens of thousands of protestors nationwide. Organizers hope to do the same this week, starting Saturday, October 3, with actions and scheduled protests planned for New York, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Chicago, Tucson, San Francisco, and Culver City, CA, and nationwide on October 8. The group is “calling on corporations, their CEOs, and local businesses to use their influence to defend free and democratic elections,” which it argues is necessary as the Trump administration escalates its attacks on U.S. voters. According to the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, the Trump administration has: targeted election officials and others who defend fair elections, seized election records, attempted to gain access to state voter rolls, pardoned the January 6 rioters, and elevated election deniers within the gov…