On may day, we say no shopping, no school, and no work.

May 1st is International Labor Day. It’s also a day of action. We are coming together to build power, both through organizing people and organizing money.

May Day Demands

On May Day, we’re uniting together across Missouri and across the country. We have three demands as we organize.

  1. WORKERS OVER BILLIONAIRES. Restore paid sick days. Enforce the minimum wage. Stop tax giveaways to corporations. Make the wealthy pay their fair share like the rest of us do.

  2. ICE OUT. Stop workplace raids. Defend the 4th Amendment. Protect every worker regardless of status.

  3. DEFEND DEMOCRACY. The people voted. Politicians overturned it. We fight to restore the will of the voters.

wE’RE BOYCOTTING BOTH NATIONAL AND LOCAL BUSINESSES. tOGETHER, WE can leverage our power as consumers to fight back.

DIRTY DOZEN - ST. LOUIS

  1. Enterprise – Enterprise is headquartered in St. Louis. This corporation works with ICE, supplying vehicles to ICE agents. The Taylor family owns STLFC and has prohibited trans and BLM flags into matches this year. The Taylor Family donates to their Enterprise Mobility PAC. The PAC donates 65% to Republicans. Crawford Group was the third highest donor to 2024 elections in Missouri. Learn more here.

  2. Amazon – Amazon continues to attack workers rights. They spent $26 million in 2025 on anti-union consultants, the largest of any corporation in history. They donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration.  Learn more here.

  3. Starbucks – Starbucks continues to be anti-union. They just began offering quarterly employee bonuses and expanded tipping to all employees EXCEPT those who are unionized. Learn more here.

  4. Target – Target rolled back DEI and abandoned their consumer base. They also donated $1 million to Donald Trump’s Inauguration, despite the fact that they had never donated to politics before this gift. Their donation was larger than even the $250,000 that Walmart donated.

  5. Anheuser-Busch – Anheuser Busch donated $1 million to Trump’s Inauguration. They pulled out of DEI and Pride Sponsorships across the USA in 2025, including in their very own home town where they had been a sponsor since the early 90’s. They left the STL Pride org with a $100,000+ deficit after dropping out as a presenting sponsor. They donated $265K to the Republican GOPAC, $100K to the GOP Congressional Leadership Fund, $30K each to the GOP congressional and senate PACS, $30K to the GOP OK Congressional Committee and $5K to Speaker Mike Johnson. 

  6. OpenAI (ChatGPT) – Greg Brockman (president and co founder) donated $25 million to a pro-trump PAC and $1 million to Trump’s inauguration. Open AI is working with the defense department and Trump administration. Learn more here.

  7. Bass Pro Shop – The Bass Pro Shop does not give. However, founder Johnny Morris donated almost exclusively to Republicans. His donations include a $200,000 donation to Turn Out for America PAC in 2024, which exclusively supported Donald Trump. Stores in South County and St. Charles. HQ in Springfield, MO.

  8. Bartolino’s Hospitality Group  (owned by Chris Saracino) - Action StL is boycotting Bartolino’s Hospitality Group for their role in supporting the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners

  9. Chris’ Pancakes, Chris @ the Docket (owned by Chris Saracino) - Action StL is boycotting these businesses for their role in supporting the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners 

  10. Don Brown Chevrolet (owned by Down Brown) - Action StL is boycotting these businesses for their role in supporting the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners 

  11. Arteaga Photos (owned by Brad Arteaga) - Action StL is boycotting these businesses for their role in supporting the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners

  12. Maggie O’Brien’s Restaurant and Irish Pub St. Louis - Action StL is boycotting these businesses for their role in supporting the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners

DIRTY DOZEN - Kansas City

  1. Enterprise – Enterprise is headquartered in St. Louis. This corporation works with ICE, supplying vehicles to ICE agents. The Taylor family owns STLFC and has prohibited trans and BLM flags into matches this year. The Taylor Family donates to their Enterprise Mobility PAC. The PAC donates 65% to Republicans. Crawford Group was the third highest donor to 2024 elections in Missouri. Learn more here.

  2. Amazon – Amazon continues to attack workers rights. They spent $26 million in 2025 on anti-union consultants, the largest of any corporation in history. They donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration.  Learn more here.

  3. Starbucks – Starbucks continues to be anti-union. They just began offering quarterly employee bonuses and expanded tipping to all employees EXCEPT those who are unionized. Learn more here.

  4. Target – Target rolled back DEI and abandoned their consumer base. They also donated $1 million to Donald Trump’s Inauguration, despite the fact that they had never donated to politics before this gift. Their donation was larger than even the $250,000 that Walmart donated.

  5. Kaldi’s. Kaldi’s has prevented employees from unionizing.

  6. Anheuser-Busch – Anheuser Busch donated $1 million to Trump’s Inauguration. They pulled out of DEI and Pride Sponsorships across the USA in 2025, including in their very own home town where they had been a sponsor since the early 90’s. They left the STL Pride org with a $100,000+ deficit after dropping out as a presenting sponsor. They donated $265K to the Republican GOPAC, $100K to the GOP Congressional Leadership Fund, $30K each to the GOP congressional and senate PACS, $30K to the GOP OK Congressional Committee and $5K to Speaker Mike Johnson. 

  7. OpenAI (ChatGPT) – Greg Brockman (president and co founder) donated $25 million to a pro-trump PAC and $1 million to Trump’s inauguration. Open AI is working with the defense department and Trump administration. Learn more here.

  8. Bass Pro Shop – The Bass Pro Shop does not give. However, founder Johnny Morris donated almost exclusively to Republicans. His donations include a $200,000 donation to Turn Out for America PAC in 2024, which exclusively supported Donald Trump. Stores in South County and St. Charles. HQ in Springfield, MO.

  9. Garmin – They give about 64% to republicans through PACs. Gifts included Sam Graves ($10K) and the GOP PAC Building Up Democracy’s Dreams ($10K). Employees give around 60% to Republicans. Learn more here.‍ ‍

  10. Hostess (Lenexa, KS) – Owned by JM Smucker. Company gives 52% to GOP through PAC’s. Senior leaders and other employees give very republican. They donate between 80-100% to republicans every cycle. Learn more here.

  11. Russell Stover – Owned by Lindt Chocolate Company. The company does not give to politics, but their senior leaders and other employees generally give very republican. In 2020 employees gave 94% to republicans ($89,325). Most of the employee donations were to candidates located in the Kansas and Missouri. 

  12. Cerner (Oracle) – Owned by Larry Ellison. Best friends with Donald Trump. One of the richest men in the world. He and his son David own Paramount Skydance including CBS. They are about to won Warner Brother’s Discovery. Larry Ellison owns the third largest island in Hawaii. He is working to create a Trump propaganda network. He recently acquired TikTok.

  13. Kaldi’s - This business continues to violate workers’ rights.

Dirty Dozen - Honorable Mentions

  1. Tesla – Elon Musk was the single largest donor in 2024 at $291 million. He has already donated $71 million ahead of this year’s midterms. 

  2. Walmart – Because they’re Walmart. 

  3. Uline Corporation –  Manufactures a variety of products, but particularly cardboard boxes. The companies impact on politics in 2024 was $146 milllion with 99.7% going to republican backed Super PAC’s and candidates. The Uihlines have already donated $15 million ahead of this year’s midterms. They gave millions to the group that sponsored the Jan 6 rally and march for Trump.

  4. Georgia Pacific (Koch Industries) – Manufactures Angel Soft, Quilted Northern and some Costco Kirkland Signature TP, Brawny and Sparkle Paper Towles, Vanity Fair Plates and Napkins, and Dixie Cups and other products. They also make the industrial paper products under the brand Marathon. Koch Industries impacted in 2024 totaled $49 million with 98% going to republican backed candidates. They have already donated $12 million  ahead of this year’s midterms.

  5. 1st Phorm/Supplement Superstores/Frisella Landscaping – A company that owns a gym in Fenton, supplements, beef jerky and energy drinks. Andy’s wife owns Racquel Aesthetics in Chesterfield. The family also owns Frisella Landscaping. Co-owned by Andy Frisella and his brother Sal. The leaders at the company give only republican. Andy donated $1,000,000 to the Save Missouri Values PAC in 2022. In 2024, St. Louis City and County Police ended their partnership with 1st Phorm after Andy Said on his podcast ““Every woman cop I’ve ever dealt with, every single f—— one that I’ve ever been pulled over by, tried to make me feel like a f—— b—-. No, that’s not a way to deescalate a situation. Especially when you know that if that person didn’t have a badge or a gun, you could punch a hole through their f—— face and end their f—— life.” In October 2025, St. Louis County Police renewed their ties with them. 1st Phorm is sponsoring America 250 nationally with other Trump donors. They also launched a partnership with AB to get their energy drinks distributed nationally. Learn more here.

  6. Bass Pro Shop – The Bass Pro Shop does not give. However, founder Johnny Morris donated almost exclusively to Republicans. His donations include a $200,000 donation to Turn Out for America PAC in 2024, which exclusively supported Donald Trump. Stores in South County and St. Charles. HQ in Springfield, MO.

Let’s get organized.

May Day is about building organizational muscle power, and the NO SHOPPING movement is an effort to flex our muscles as consumers. We are creating a social movement powerful enough to fight authoritarianism and dislodge the current authoritarian regime