Workers Over Billionaires Rally Draws Hundreds in Eureka on Labor Day
Protesters carry an American flag upside down, a traditional sign of distress, at today’s Labor Day rally in front of the Humboldt County Courthouse. [Photo by Ryan Hutson]
Eureka’s rally also included a community service component. Local chapter Food Not Bombs ran a canned food drive on site, with donations going toward preparing meals for people in need.
Hundreds line the streets with signs and flags during the Workers Over Billionaires protest in Eureka. [Photo by Ryan Hutson]
Liz Shuler, president of the AFL-CIO, tweeted today, “At 1,000+ events today, America’s unions are celebrating the workers who make America run and make our labor movement strong. We’ll keep fighting so ALL working people get the freedom, fairness and security they need.” She also posted, “We won’t be silent as the administration turns working families’ lives upside-down across the country.”
That sentiment echoed through the crowd in Eureka, where protestors carried signs reading “We Are All Under the Boot” and “People Over Profit,” while Palestinian flags flew alongside U.S. ones.
Some of the signs at today’s protest. [Screenshot from a live video at the scene by Ryan Hutson]
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Does anyone know how to find out about these things before they happen?
I’d have gone if I’d known about it before it was almost over.
It’s pretty much up to the rally organizers to get out the word.
I read about it on local facebook groups
agreed. try nextdoor neighbor.
You can find info and sign up for alerts at https://www.fiftyfifty.one/.
I’m trying to find a webcam of the east side of Eureka Courthouse where a good crowd was protesting on Monday (Sept 1, 2025), about 11 AM. Maybe someone will have better luck.
Checkout humdem.org for upcoming events. Also on Instagram & Facebook: @humdem707 Look for a ‘Defend Democracy Fair’ on September14th at Madekat Square, Eureka.
Me too!
Lost Coast Outpost…
https://lostcoastoutpost.com/lowdown/events/labor-day-workers-over-billionaires/
North Coast Journal…
https://m.northcoastjournal.com/event/workers-over-billionaires-protest-rally-33695425
I TOTALLY AGREE!!! This is the third local protest that I have heard NOTHING about!!
I appreciate their efforts and know what it takes to organize these events. But yes, this is the third time I have made my concern about that known on this platform. …..Crickets!!
WHO’S ORGANIZING THESE EVENTS? They need a better Outreach Coordinator!!
PLEASE! When an organization takes on responsibility for these important protests, they need to include ‘spreading the word’ as A PRIORITY!!
(All meant as ‘constructive criticism’!).
Check the local comunist party website
The rich want us pitted against each other to distract from them.
The rich are not likely interested in us at all.
U could say we are the dangerous ones.
the rich just are too busy getting their agendas ready for the dangerous ones
add in, the strip mining of our civilization
one Ponzi scheme after another
imagine what rich people do to protest against us
stop giving away your lunch money and stop expecting strangers to lift a finger for your needs.
LOLOLOL
Surely you mean “retirees over billionaires”
They’re all so old and bitter that they didn’t make as much money and their social security is failing.
Maybe you shoulda had a SAVINGS ACCOUNT instead of RELYING ON THE GOVERNMENT you’ve hated on so much your entire lives.
The Capital flows strongly through me
I’m relying on brisk sales of my stockpiled Victory 45-47 cologne, and Trump watch shares, a $melania coin rally, and a subsidy to get my Prison Industry up and running!
I don’t rely on anyone but myself, Gma, and my OnlyFans. And my brave fearless Leader’s reputation for Panache.
Truly it did seem in the linked video that gray hair by far outnumbered others. The only younger people seemed to be behind the organization tables. And only saw one sign indicating labor union participation. Mostly a conglomerate of anti Trump protesters with a sprinkling of pro Palestinians protest. Somehow workers do not seem to be the theme.
Maybe you should get acquainted with more seniors. Not all of us are on SSR!
Is that Social Security Retirement? It’s an acronym I never heard before. There are probably lots on PERS, SSI, STRS, FERS, etc too. Just about every older person is on something or another.
Yes. And no, not all of us…
No but just about…
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v77n2/v77n2p1.html
Hmmm… I guess I made it up! (LOL) Guess I should make it official. SSR = Social Security Retirement (benefits)
we could have taken our SSR and Pers contributions and invested them ourselves. Instead we trusted our worksites, the county and the state to do it as a collective effort so Everyone benefitted. It’s worked out well formany.I’m not sure why you’re benton begruding many a comfortable life style when many of us worked very public jobs. Just because manyof those who attended are grey haired doen’t count against themin my book. That’s called agism my friend.
Well, at least they got off their fat butts, whether you agree or not. IMHO government is a huge, inefficient, wasteful organization. Lay off about 20% of all employees and administrators for a start, if they can’t make it work, fire the legislators who have served more than 1 term.
DOGE has already been there. Lots of holes or incompetent replacements with more of the remaining competent ones leaving either because they’ve had enough or Trump gave them the boot. Services are suffering and it will only get worse. But Trump’s happy; his “authoritarian train” rolls on.😥
Sadly any attempt at reasonable reductions in government funding is stymied by the myriad of regulations, lobbyists and dependants. Trump’s hatch job is wasteful and damaging but politics being what it is…
“Government bureaucrats have strong incentives to defend their non-governmental partners and encourage them to find more urgent uses for extra funding because if they can make a good case to their political masters both positions are strengthened by larger budgets. It is not in their interests to challenge their partners because any perceived shortcomings weaken the case for maintaining or increasing funding.”
https://iea.org.uk/blog/why-is-it-so-difficult-to-shrink-government
” You’ll lose your Social Security, no more emergency responses from ambulances, or police, SOCIETY WILL END< if you don’t pay more taxes. I’ve heard this for 70 fricken years, the government is a crackhead for dollars, reduction in size and scope is the only hope for the U.S.
Just what Trump is doing, and more. MAGA🇺🇲🇺🇲
You zipped right by the actual objection. It’s not that government employees have a very comfortable retirement (mostly) as much as so many of the rest of the country has been done out of their’s because government didn’t support them. While still supporting them for government workers.
“According to the BLS, pension plans covered about half of all private-sector workers in 1960.
“Companies started moving away from pension programs in the 1980s, mainly due to the high costs and because it is simply unpredictable to know how long the company will need to make payments to each retiree,” but high costs mean little to government which simply changes laws, either increasing taxes or limiting the amount they have to fund, while simultaneously exempting themselves. “Before ERISA was established in 1974, retirement accounts and employees had few protections. One notable case that highlighted the need for oversight was the Teamsters Pension Fund, which loaned money to Las Vegas casinos and misused employee funds. ” Can you imagine if the California State retirement funds were required to be-gasp- solvent under threat of law?
https://humaninterest.com/learn/retirement-glossary/employee-retirement-income-security-act-erisa/
https://money.usnews.com/money/retirement/articles/why-do-jobs-no-longer-offer-pensions
https://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2025/08/bill-would-give-all-workers-federal-level-retirement-benefits/407448/
Dumb.
So…yer a billionaire?
FEMA death camps anyone? No, it will cause much less uproar if we call them DHS relocation camps. Government censorship? Only if you talk about equity. Militarization of law enforcement? Weaponization of the Justice Department? Everything they are warning about is exactly what they are doing. It is straight out of the KGB playbook, time-tested and effective.
It kills me that someone downvoted what you said. Everything you said is TRUE and is happening. Its weird how some people I guess just wont read the news.
Let’s see. $7.25 an hour, then $8.50, then two kids, then I finally got up to $9.50 in 1999..then employer shut down. Several went belly up in the 80s. Consequently my contribution to SS was minimal, then I got sick and couldn’t work at age 62, so my SS was half of what I was owed due to retiring early. I’m sorry you don’t seem to be able to comprehend that a lot of very hard working people couldn’t save much, if anything , working full time in America. ONE emergency, broken car, illness, accident. Compassion is a thing.
Oh yay. Like people in this country are taught and encouraged to save money! Hahahahahahahahahaha!!
Thats not true. I never ask for anything, and America Has Always Been Great It’s the goble economy, and greed, people not caring anymore, people calling themselves Christians and their hearts are filled with hate.No integrity, I don’t believe people knows what that means anymore.
SSDD. Don’t they get tired of doing the same thing every weekend?
Trump and his buddies? Nah. Maybe they cut it back to eighteen holes on the weekend.
Golf sounds like more fun than screaming at the sky
It was an odd trip down a new rabbit hole. Seems there is a website called Mobilize.us. “It started with seed funding from Higher Ground Labs, a progressive technology accelerator based in Chicago and chaired by Ron Klain… then was bought by “NGP VAN, Inc. is an American privately owned voter database and web hosting service provider used by the Democratic Party” which was subsequently bought by “Apax Partners LLP is a British private equity firm, headquartered in London, England” worth $77 billion. The irony of course is that “”Workers over Billionaires” is funded by billionaires.
So maybe Allen is right that “the rich do want us pitted against each other” , not as a distraction but as a moneymaker. But I think he missed just who is the tool they use.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobilize_(company)
Well at least promoted by billionaires. Do they sell tee shirts? Why yes they do.
https://www.amazon.com/Workers-Over-Billionaires-Shirt-T-Shirt/dp/B0DWNMXH5G
It’s imported too. The irony never ends.
It’s even mentioned in the article that it is organized.
Organized equals funded …
I believe I mentioned this before, Kym 😉🤙
But what do I know? At one point in the early aughts, I was part of a fun hearted protest group in the Bay Area called Billionaires for Bush. Our logo was a piggy bank in the rep/demo motif, we had stickers. Anyway, the most fun we had was one April 15 when we all dressed up in fancy clothes and stood outside a post office in Berkeley as people drove up to drop of their taxes after work. We had signs that said, “Thanks for paying our fair share!”
Do you really think those billionaires just dried up and left from 2008 to 2016 and then again in 2020.
No. The right/left paradigm is an experiment in gaslighting. Divide and conquer.
Oh right, why they staged a coop in 2014 … members of BOTH sides of the aisle. Buncha greedy crooks.
Isn’t that the way Soros plays the game?
i spent two hours there and it looked like more than 300. great turn out.
If by great turnout you mean like 1.18% of the population in Eureka(assuming there were 300), then yeah….
Seems to me the silent majority is just fine with how things are going. Happy Labor Day!
And it won’t change a thing.
To find out about upcoming events and actions check out HUMBOLDT DEMOCRACY CONNECTIONS: humdem.org or find them on Instagram & Facebook @humdem707 Look for a “Defend Democracy Fair on September 14th at Madekat Square, Eureka 12-4
Does their disapproval extend to George Soros and Bill Gates and other left leaning billionaires too numerous to name? Or just those that NPR disapproves. Again, useless exhibitionism of their superior morality.
It is said ” if you have change in your pocket that you are in the top ten percent in the world.” I don’t hear give money to the poor! I hear give more money to me! Just be glad you weren’t born in Gaza. Or the Ukraine or Sudan.
if they undermine the constitution, we disapprove, yes. soros and gates are both great philanthropists. trump, musk, thiel, adelson, not so much.
One reason Union Workers may be protesting this administration…
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/us/politics/trumps-unions-federal-workers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ik8.8gyv.zwrIDXsByGXO&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Gov. workers never had collective bargaining rights until Carter, and you know how well he worked out. Sensitive services employees, strike and your fired. Best thing Reagan ever did vs air traffic controllers.
I think it’s a shame that our local sites (ahem) do nothing to publicize these until after they are over. It may well be time for me to crawl back out from under my rock and take action. We are there yet, again, and others will not do it for us in the numbers required to instigate change. This is not a drill.
Ahem…we publish nearly every press release we are sent. If organizers do not send them to [email protected], we don’t magically know they are occurring.
Don’t blame RHBB if the organizers of an event are too stupid or lazy to send a press release to local news sites.
What do you mean…???
https://lostcoastoutpost.com/lowdown/events/labor-day-workers-over-billionaires/
And this…
https://m.northcoastjournal.com/event/workers-over-billionaires-protest-rally-33695425
As liberal as Kym can be apparently she’s not liberal enough for the provocateur liberal organizers. LOCO and NCJ have street cred with the far left ,as they have zero tolerance for any counter argument to the dogmatic party line. I don’t agree with her politics but she runs an informative and free thought local news and information site and should be applauded for it🫲🏻🫱🏻
The “organizers” almost certainly preach inclusiveness but they don’t include SoHum when sending out invites to the 5150 Shared Rage meetings.
I’ll second that observation! Grrrrrr!!
You are saying this about a man who has provided more American workers great paying jobs than every employer in Humboldt County combined, whether private or government sector. Just as soon as I see a single employer even come close to Trump’s generosity I might give this a second thought. I guarantee you that NOT ONE of these brainwashed protesters has. Total BS.
It must be so safe in a sheltered world like that Alf. Believing everything Trump says and like he is helping people….. more than the outrageous damage he is doing to our country?!! Wow!!
The outrageous damage to the country has been by Democrats. Carter was hideous and started the ball rolling. Obama, Clinton, Biden were exponentially worse. Did you just accuse me of believing everything Trump says? That’s TDS in its most extreme sense. I don’t believe everything any human being says, but I certainly don’t believe anything a Demonocrat says, especially after the last ten years of lawfair. The Democrat party is the party of the devil.
Can anyone provide a link that supports these claims?
Y’all are fighting phantoms 😆
No federal tax on tips or overtime included in the Big Beautiful Bill. What have Democrats done for working people in the last 25 years ?
This guy that looks like he is standing in the back of his truck with a sign is parked in a bad spot…
The last anti Trump protest participant that stood on his vehicle with a sign while parked thereabouts, ended up becoming part of a serious burning issue across the street on the courthouse lawn, just a couple of weeks later…
Might be worth keeping an eye on…
Especially if he is also wearing a safety vest…
Kinda hard to tell…
This is yet another example of a.d.d. two of the worst ran hospitals in the country, and they are protesting billionaires! And in front of a county building that can’t solve a fucking crime if their life depended on it! And it’s the same boomer generation protesters. How clueless can you be? Vietnam is over idiots.
WOW That must be almost 1 % .
The leftwing idiocy continues ad infinitum.