Medium sized city in a very red part of a blue state: turnout was estimated to be 5000+ and huge amounts of support from honking drivers in the busy, adjacent multilane street, for 2 hours straight. Great energy/vibe, lots of outrage and creativity, and a very multi-generational turnout that shows that not just one age group hates MAGA, they ALL do.
Counter-demonstrators were next to none and getting shouted down. One Christofascist was dressed up like the Christ he’s seen in picturebooks and was dragging around a replica of a full-sized cross and getting laughs and sneers for his efforts.
We’re driving the Trump citizen-fascists underground, lets keep it up.
I was at one in Nola! The speakers were great.
I went to one in a small Illinois city today. We had about 1000 people which is crazy for our area. I bet the nola gathering was nuts.
I was at the one in Seattle. The turnout estimate from the organizers was 25,000 people.
Really? I was there and would have guessed far fewer, though it certainly was a pretty good turn out. But I don’t know what 25k people looks like.
Would have liked to go. Glad it was big
And this time of the year is tulip and Cherry blossom time. 25k is a ton of people per unit area for a good mile. I hope they do it again.
It was raining yesterday. Less incentive to go look at pretty flowers. Then again, less incentive to be outside protesting, so go us!
We 🇨🇦 have been yelling at 🇺🇲 for months now, “Boycott, protest, do SOMETHING!” Very happy to see them take action against the orange shitgibbon and his ‘88’ fanatics. Well done! We’re doing what we can by boycotting the US, but it ultimately falls to the 🇺🇲 people to clean up their own house.
Perhaps I just missed it, but I didn’t see any support from local government, such as Mayors or Governors, speaking at the protests. Oh, well. Carry on without them and remember who stood with you and who hid under their desk.
Needs to be daily before anything happens
Once, in a weekend, means nothing. We need to be out there constantly, everyday
This is a good start, but it’s only a very very quiet start
I was at one yesterday and while you’re 100% right, I’m hoping that what we’re doing right now is building a head of steam, the US has never really protested on this scale before and getting everyone out is gonna take time to organize. Next one is set for the 19th. If we get a bigger turn out then and keep it up that’s how we generate the momentum for daily protests and general strikes going. It’s not enough at all but I was encouraged by the turn out I saw versus other rallies this year
Speaking with some organizers… that is exactly the point: build steam to kick off a mass movement in the streets, if needed.
Yes! All the people saying “not enough” or “it needs to be a certain way” need to STFU. The US does not have a protest culture, we’re building one right now. Protests are growing in size and frequency and people are boycotting businesses and it is hurting the companies being boycotted. Target is reporting fewer people coming into their stores and sales are down. Tesla is self reporting 13% decline in sales and the stock is losing value. Things are working and we’re building up our resistance. We need to keep it up.
Those who are critical of the efforts, put up a better idea (that people will realistically do) and show the receipts. Otherwise you might as well be a fascist cause you’re helping their side.
Yeah, look at Serbia. And they are only partway through as well.
Serbia’s been under their oppressive government for ten years now. Is only been 3 months in the US. The comparisons to Turkey and Serbia are completely ridiculous.
You’re right, a better comparison might be Hungary.
- Orbán achieved near-unlimited power solely because of the ineptitude of the corporate-beholden “left”
- Protest movements started immediately with no clear, realistic and actionable goals and are still going strong 15 years later, yet nobody in power cares
- Orbán started by attacking and dismantling key government institutions like the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Labour, replacing them (and a few others) with a joint Ministry of Human Resources
- The “left” parties and their leaders were mostly squabbling between themselves, either never giving up the “mantle of the leadership of the left” or trying to protect their own small grifts that were going
- In the meantime, voting districts were redrawn and the voting system was changed to benefit the ruling party
- Disenfranchised citizens effectively became a pool of voter/workers beholden to the local party-aligned municipalities, who can be threatened with taking away their sub-minimum wage
- The country was shifted into a manufacturing-focused economy which again produced a large pool of people who can be threatened with their jobs into voting the right way
- Constant threats of war and migration are exploited to call for wartime emergency powers for the government to sidestep the checks and balances that haven’t been dismantled yet
Strap in, for us it took 16 years to get out of it, if we get out of it next year. The way out seems to be a combination of:
- a major economic crisis
- the emergence of a new, “non-partisan, no left no right” political party, grounded solely on anti-corruption
- the fact that finally, after a quarter century, the fake “leftist” parties are polling below 5% collectively and thus will get ousted from Parliament
Stop the disease ! STD - Stop Trump, Donald !
Impeach Facist Trump
Down with Nazi Felon Musk.
What is the relationship between “Hands Off” and 50501?
You’d think they say more than 2 million. Since I read the estimate is at 5.2 million in the US. 100k in Boston alone.
Honestly, haven’t we reached the point yet where assigning ANY label other than Anti-Trump is counter productive? How much more pain will have to be inflicted, and it will be, before people decide that they don’t care about the label of the whatever-gender marching next to them.
I believe the most effective action is to cause pain for your local Republicans. Work to get them out. The ones still standing will switch sides because Musk can’t buy everyone’s office.
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That’s great. Harder to be the first 8 than the last 1000. Kudos to them
Is US social security not the definition of a ponzi scheme, where new money pays for old money, as they obfuscate the fact its totally unfunded outside of current year debt accumulation?
Can somebody correct me where I’m wrong here, and why it is sustainable in a rising interest rate environment and aging demographics where debt is more expensive to roll over. It seems to me if you even made it optional and allowed people to opt in the entire system would collapse, as it is entirely unfunded if not for the new entrants into the system, which again appears to be a ponzi scheme.
