Former State Senator Wes Chesbro Joins Labor Day Protest in Eureka [Photos & Video of the Event]
Wes Chesbro at ‘Workers over Billionaires’ protest in front of the Humboldt County Courthouse in Eureka yesterday. [Photo by Ryan Hutson]
More than 300 people gathered outside the Humboldt County Courthouse in Eureka on Monday for the “Workers Over Billionaires” protest, part of a nationwide Labor Day mobilization led by the AFL-CIO and dozens of other organizations.
Luis Chabolla’s dad fought in WWII in the Solomon Islands and his wife’s dad was in Normandy and The Battle of the Bulge. He added that even with the racism in the military their parents fought. [Photo by Mark McKenna]
Several hundred demonstrators lined 5th Street in front of the Courthouse on Labor Day. [Photo by Mark McKenna]
A demonstrator holds and upside down U.S. flag, a sign of distress. [Photo by Mark McKenna]
Chesbro and his wife joined yesterday’s protest. [Photo by Ryan Hutson]
“This is not Normal” states one sign. [Photo by Mark McKenna]
Leon Matyshock holds a sign saying, “Relax we just look illegal” while another demonstrator takes a photo of it. [Photo by Mark McKenna]
Barbara Schumacher collects signature for California Senate Bill 42 that would make elections publicly funded. [Photo by Mark McKenna]
Photos of Folks Shaking their literal or metaphorical fists yesterday at the protest:
Demonstrators raised their fists in solidarity with workers and anti-Trump administration sentiment. [Photo by Mark McKenna]
Valerie Lawe holds an 8647 sign on Labor Day. [Photo by Mark McKenna]
Evan Edgar joined the Demonstration in front of the court house on Labor Day. [Photo by Mark McKenna]
Johann Waltberg holds a sign saying due process is not optional. [Photo by Mark McKenna]
Demonstrators lined both sides of Fifth Street in front of the Courthouse. [Photo by Mark McKenna]
Signs calling out government overreach were on display throughout the rally. [Photo by Mark McKenna]
A passenger in a truck holds a workers over fascist sign as they drive past the crowd. [Photo by Mark McKenna]
![Meg Wall-Wild of McKinleyville said the she and her husband are not usually vocal people but they came out to demonstrate. [Photo by Mark McKenna]](https://kymkemp.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/KYM.LABOR_.DAY_.PROTEST.2025.DSC_3249.jpg)
Meg Wall-Wild of McKinleyville said the she and her husband are not usually vocal people but they came out to demonstrate. [Photo by Mark McKenna]
Earlier: Workers Over Billionaires Rally Draws Hundreds in Eureka on Labor Day
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And here come the haters. Get over it. These people are standing up for what they believe in and exercising their Constitutional right to protest.
Didn’t effect you so quit whining about it. Next time get out and counter protest if you don’t like what they are doing.
Yeah thats what they said about them wanting to force vax thebplanet 4 years ago.[Edit by Kym…Insulting fellow commenters is the fastest way to get banned.] Look how upside down this state is because of these clowns……
Thats a real nice sign the old lady has 8647, I hope she gets a talkin to by the men in Black ! cant be more stupid
8647
Calling me dipshit shows me what intellectual level you are on. Also insults are against the rules here. Or do you like Trump think rules are just for others.
LOL, all the counter protester are the rest of the population who are not there. They took the day off form work. The ones at the protest have no real jobs. Some are at work though, as paid protester. Most are just stooges.
Uh….it was a holiday, Einstein.
Relax, it was a holiday.
People have the right to protest government all they want. But it would help others not hate them if they (at least the pro-illegal immigrant ones out of that grab bag of causes) expressed as much concern for their fellow citizens as they seem concerned for non-citizens breaking the country’s laws. That’s some group of haters right there.
The revolutions that do nothing to hold bad behavior accountable isn’t lost on many of us who cannot afford to compete against corporations for market share.
so go protest and then go buy your chot skis from the companies that extracted debilitating concessions from our ancestors
Never once do those signs say anything about illegal immigrants. You know the ones Biden kindly automated the immigration process out of existence for. There would be no President Trump if the Democrats honored the very laws they created.
Strange the people who protest worker’s over billionaires on Labor Day are so mindless about importing scab labor by the millions. And who knew “Wesley Chesbro is one of the richest Politician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Wesley Chesbro ‘s net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)?”
https://celebrity-birthdays.com/people/wesley-chesbro
Illegal immigrants are the problem. They broke the law and it is being enforced now. Thank you President Trump. Big ag, big meat, big retail, big oil, all take a hit on this low wage scab labor. And these protester are actually protesting for the billionaires.
Don’t blame Trump about this, because it’s actually the Democrats that have decided that if undocumented adult immigrants, aged 19-59 don’t pay the newly enacted $30 a month, beginning, July 1, 2027, for those with “unsatisfactory immigration status”,
”Failure to pay will result in a reduction of benefits to emergency and pregnancy care, ➡️ “ONLY” ⬅️ .
[Emphasis mine…]
[(“ONLY”…??? WTF…??? Like, “emergency and pregnancy care”, is somehow INSIGNIFICANT…??? )]
Now Democrats are withholding emergency and pregnancy care benefits to undocumented immigrants based on an INABILITY to PAY…???
Now GAVIN NEWSOM’s Democrats are withholding emergency and pregnancy care benefits to undocumented immigrants,. NOT BECAUSE THEY AREN’T SICK ENOUGH, BUT BECAUSE THEY AREN’T RICH ENOUGH…???
THAT’S PRETTY DAMN SICK…!!!
Where is the LIBERALS FAMILIAR CONCERTED SKIVVY SOILING OUTRAGE…???
HOW will the Democrat’s decision to WITHHOLD EMERGENCY AND PREGNANCY CARE BENEFITS to undocumented immigrants, that don’t pay, NOT BE PUTTING THEIR LIVES IN IMMEDIATE DANGER…!!!???
THE LEAST THE DEMOCRATS SHOULD DO IS TO MAKE SURE TO GIVE THEM A BUCKET FILLED WITH TOWELS JUST IN CASE SOMETHING HAPPENS…!!!2
“Yes, the Medi-Cal cuts in California’s 2025–2026 budget will disproportionately affect undocumented immigrants. The cuts specifically target the recent expansion of full-scope Medi-Cal coverage to undocumented adults, creating new barriers to access.
Specific impacts on undocumented immigrant
Enrollment freeze:
Starting in January 2026, new enrollment for full-scope Medi-Cal will be frozen for undocumented adults aged 19 and older. Immigrants already enrolled can keep their coverage if they complete their annual renewal, but those who lose it will be unable to re-enroll
➡️ Monthly premiums: Beginning July 1, 2027, undocumented adults ages 19–59 who do not have satisfactory immigration status must pay a $30 monthly premium to maintain their full-scope Medi-Cal coverage. Failure to pay will result in a reduction of benefits to emergency and pregnancy care only ⬅️
Reduced benefits
Elimination of dental care:
Full-scope dental benefits for undocumented adults will be eliminated starting July 1, 2026. Coverage for children and pregnant people is not affected
➡️ [”Takeaway ” ” Hack” ] ⬅️
➡️ [If you are an undocumented immigrant adult in need of free dental care after July 1, 2026, just get knocked up first, get that pesky cavity filled, (no pun intended), and then just get a follow up abortion, all, conveniently, on the US Taxpayers dime… ⬅️ ]
[No “out of pocket”]
[Act fast, reproductive limits may ultimately apply.]
End of long-term care:
Long-term care benefits for undocumented adults are being eliminated, which will impact elderly and disabled [undocumented] immigrants
Cuts to safety-net providers:
Funding reductions to Federally Qualified Health Centers and rural health clinics will decrease reimbursement rates for services provided to undocumented Californians. This could strain the finances of safety-net providers and jeopardize their ability to offer services.
Wider effects on health care
Financial burden on clinics: Reduced funding for clinics serving immigrant populations and shifting reimbursements to a fee-for-service model could destabilize the safety-net health care system
Increased costs for everyone:
Critics warn that the cuts will likely increase emergency room visits and drive up long-term health care costs for the entire state, reversing progress toward health equity
Impact on other services:
The budget deal also includes reductions to other services that will broadly affect Medi-Cal enrollees, such as provider payment reductions and changes to pharmacy benefits.”
-AI-
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America runs on immigrant workers. most Dunkin’s also run on immigrants. trump is the problem, he has indoctrinated the uneducated via his rally’s. he is also setting the stage for some crazy tit for tat in the next administration. the history books will be corrected and he will be viewed as a madman.
Trump’s fault as opposed to the illegal immigrants and those that hire them? This is like the overly digested excusing for drug dealers just filling a demand. Raise wages for citizens and penalize those who try to get by cheap by hiring illegal immigrants. If illegality is required to operate a business, then the problem is not one of supply and demand. It is one of a society that is dysfunctional and doesn’t know it.
Seems like you favor tit for tat. Trump is just the latest escalation in a string of partisan actions.
It seems like a society that likes cheap food. Do you personally know anyone who’s willing to go out and pick tomatoes in 90° heat for $30 a day?
Trump is saying all the things that his supporters have been talking about for 30 plus years
he is selling all the things his supporters have been saying over their phone and typing into and searching on the internet for 15 years.
Not to mention bibles, sneakers, gold plated coins, perfume, and anything else he thinks the suckers will buy. In all my 62 years, I have never seen a president of the United States sell stuff while in office. Has he been on QVC yet?
Who killed JFK!?
the foundations on which we have learned to understand how the lies have become truth over time, and we keep praying at the altar of a civilization in decline.
we are just emotional controlled units of harvested energy. So just remember why we are so ineffective against the machine.
California is 32nd in education
1st in homelessness.
FOCUS ON WHY THE DEMOCRATS IN CALIF CAN KEEP FAILING FORWARD, but here we are just reminding ourselves of just how ineffective our lives are when we can’t get the phallus of destructive governance out our mouths
It sucks, but red states have it worse.
Illegals are just the mess to an end.
The liberals and conservatives in positions of power listening to the donor class
if we had a robust education system Johnny would recognize that changing his name to Jenny is the hallmArk of a civilization in decline!
stop majoring in the minors
taxation is theft
property taxes is paying rent on things you think you own
Billionaires should not exist. They should pay there fair share. And provide an portion to the Unhoused. There should be a farther requirement to volunteer there time in social causes.
You sound like a true communist
For a bunch of people who want the “good old days” of the 1950s to come back, you all seem to forget that the highest income rate in the ’50s was 92% ( in 1952), It was then lowered to 91% for the rest of the decade. It was a marginal tax rate, so any thing over 200,000 in those years (over a couple of million in today’s dollars).
That means, with deductions and loopholes, what they actually paid was in the 40s percentiles. Today’s billionaires average 24%, which is lower than the average taxpayer (you and me).
So, in regards to taxes, I’d be okay with returning to the “good old days” of the very anti-communist 1950s.
The problem is not that billionaires are rich but aren’t taxed enough but that the government has not protected the average citizen’s work and privileges so that it has kept up. You remember all that globalization crap that sent earnings overseas? That darling of the liberal posturing of how cosmopolitan American politics had become? That Karl Marx vision of “workers unite?”
Well it succeeded by shafting the average American citizen and sending their income, sent soaring by being the remaining functional industrialized country standing after WWII, everywhere else. You don’t need to “tax the rich” as much as you need the better wages of working citizens to be deducted from the income of the rich. That would effectively reduce the richest wherewithal and make work pay for those working. Government largess is no substitute for earning power. That 90 tax rate was the result of paying off debt created by that war that sent ordinary people’s income soaring. It was not the cause of it. The government colluded with the wealth to see that happened. It does not deserve to be trusted with more taxes. That would only lead to more shafting, more rich and more poor.
“After adjusting for inflation, however, today’s average hourly wage has just about the same purchasing power it did in 1978, following a long slide in the 1980s and early 1990s and bumpy, inconsistent growth since then. In fact, in real terms average hourly earnings peaked more than 45 years ago: The $4.03-an-hour rate recorded in January 1973 had the same purchasing power that $23.68 would today.”
“If you’re earning the minimum wage today, your purchasing power is actually less compared to the 1950s, when adjusted for inflation. This means that, comparatively, a minimum wage worker in the 1950s could afford more with their income than a minimum wage worker today.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/08/07/for-most-us-workers-real-wages-have-barely-budged-for-decades/
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/08/07/for-most-us-workers-real-wages-have-barely-budged-for-decades/
Yes, everybody knows that minimum wage purchasing power is less today. Not news.
Don’t forget that it was the Reagan era that started the exodus of jobs to China.
And yes, billionaires ARE a big part of the problem. They own the politicians making the rules. There’s no need for a human being to have anywhere near that much money.
You’re right that the gov can’t be trusted with tax money. Look how much they lavish on the military industrial complex. Trump wants to build a nuke shield over the U.S. that will cost a trillion, and isn’t even workable. But I imagine he will have stock in the companies building it.
this sounds like communist talk
How about we just eat the poor? Problem solved.
That’s A Modest Proposal!
So, you think if we eat the poor people everything will be fine. It will take a large number of years to even start. I don’t understand why you think that will solve the problem. I prefer nonhuman body food myself. The folks protesting have every right to do so. It looks to be well organized, and they are staying on the sidewalks and not in the streets.
Martin, old guy was being sarcastic and possibly alluding to Jonathan Swift’s famous A Modest Proposal***.
Swift is the author of Gulliver’s Travels.
*** The full title is A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick
Where is the forcing function behind your wants and needs!?
if you understand the way power works, the billionaire has already exploited every way possible to defend his position, and not ours.
this is not a mAtter of the billionaires unfairly keeping their money
this is simply a master class in working the system
Working the system? The 1% designed and built the system to benefit themselves, not the rest of us.
Lead
follow
or get out of the way
See thats the problem people. You think you are fighting a war. When in reality you are pawns fighting for the very “kings” you pretend to stand against. The irony of your delusions is wild asf. The same mental void lefties that are fired up about this no kings fascism rant are the very idiots that wanted to force vax the planet just a few years ago. Take a seat and a nap…..
Hey, I’ve had all the COVID vaccines, and I can barely feel Zuckerberg’s microchips; I call that a win!
There were 3 versions of Covid
saline/placebo
mild
and extra strength
howbadismybatch.com
IMHO:
Hmm… wrong fest ? The Dope Festival was just down the street.
And the day before; no scheduling conflict there.
ALWAYS better to elect a Republican with a king complex, than it will ever be to ever elect a Democrat with a god complex…!!!
“Workers over billionaires” Wes shows up to protest with the “little people”. The puppets of the politicians.
Have you stopped to look at the money our politicians are making off “public service”? Politicians do very little to provide for anyone but themselves. They are all involved in the NGOs that supposely are providing for the homeless and needy. Donations go to these NGOs and get filteted back to politicians.
The 100 million dollar LA fire “victim” fund raiser is a perfect example. Politician family and “friends” are associated with these NGOs to “provide assistance” to victims. The assistance is almost always “helping” them file claims, obtain permits, and “get thru the process of rebuilding”. This is assistance to get thru bureaucratic rules and regulations that the politicians place on us, regulations that the politicians are putting in place for their “special interest friends”. The assistance that the politicians should be provided for free, and regulations that the politicians can and should be relaxing to help the victims of these disasters.
So the “workers over billionaires” protests that these politicians support, to continue their wealth, are just another way of pulling the strings to keep them and their billionaire supporters in control of the workers.
Why else do we see that these “protests” seem to be nothing more than a “bitch session” because they are never focussed on a single group or problem. There is never any productive debate or accomplishment, only name calling, propaganda, and when needed, agitators to stir up violence or vandalism. And all the while those billionaires and politicians that you are complaining about are using those protests to push their agendas to continue their getting richer as the workers get poorer.
The original humboldt pothead commie now enjoying a rich life. What a hypocrite.
“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
-Blaise Pascal
Billionaires are not the problem, you could take every last dollar from every millionaire and billionaire in the country and wouldn’t even fund the federal budget for a year. The problem is the devaluation of our currency, and this isn’t going to stop until we stop printing money and spending our money like it has no value. Inflation has increased by over 600% since going off the gold standard in 1971..
The”Big Beautiful Bill” eliminated federal tax on tips and overtime What have the Democrats done for working people in the last 25 years ?
The Democrats have become the party of the coastal elites. Wes Chesbro is worth millions.
The bill also is dismantling Social Security and Medicaid. The Dems haven’t done that yet.
Social security needs to go away. I’ll take my contribution back.
Democrats gave us that Ponzi scheme.
Socialists whining on Socialist holiday. Who’da thunk it?
Back in the nineties, the jingle indicated that he’s gone to Sacramento and he’s never coming back
May Day is the time for protests, not Labor day. Obviously these are paid Soros socialists. Tools of unelected. Pay your fair share.