'No kings on Presidents Day' rings out from protests against Trump and Musk, over 1,000 Bostonians braved the cold!
'No kings on Presidents Day' rings out from protests against Trump and Musk, over 1,000 Bostonians braved the cold!
Protesters against President Donald Trump and his policies have organized demonstrations in all 50 states for the second time in two weeks.
We had 250+ in Pittsburgh braving the cold today! I doubt we'll see any results from these protests, but it's nice to see a public display of our displeasure regardless.
We will only see results if we persist
Why would you expect a demonstration of 250 people, in a city of 300,000, to have a measurable effect? Or 1,000 out of 650,000?
I hope that's not too discouraging, I am certainly on your side (cheering from Canada) and would love to see the US people rise up en masse, but it is going to take a sustained effort to sway a large population.
This is a very small number of people mobilizing to defend their rights.
In France when we had the demonstration against the change of retirement age, the mobilization lasted over 4 months and every protest accounted from 300k up to 1.2M participants across the country (official numbers, multiply by 3 if you want the Union's number).
The situation is several orders of magnitude more serious in the USA at the moment. I find it very strange, concerning and sad, that people over there seems to just accept their fate, just watch their 300 yo democracy collapse into totalitarianism in a few days.
Not immediately but it does set us up for change down the line. They're a first step to organize for more
Many of the groups organizing them like Indivisible do a lot of directed action and they're about to likely get an influx of new members
Over a 1000.... Wow...
Herr is a Question: Where are the other MILLIONS?
Is really nobody noticing or caring about what's going on?
While it is far less than we need, collectively across the country, there were more: https://slrpnk.net/post/18532969
This lead up to this protest wasn't super well known either, from what I can gather. I only learned of it a day before it happened. Considering how grassroots and impromptu it was, perhaps that wasn't the worst turnout.
In a free, fair, safe (last?) election, more Young Republicans, Arab and Latino Americans voted for Donald Trump than have ever voted for any Republican candidate before in history. Young Democrats didn't vote. Trump won his second Presidential term by ~2.3% of the vote. And now Trump is going to tear the world apart, and plunge us all into the greatest economic depression since the 1930's, and quite possibly an actual nuclear conflagration with Europe who won't be too happy when Russia starts moving east from Ukraine.
In a free, fair, safe (last?) election
They legally cheated in a lot of states and some of his minions probably cheated with the voting machines in the swing states. Let's not blame the minorities for his reelection. Of course, the people who stayed home, feel free to blame.
Organized by 50501.
I hope they all got some great footage for their social media.