Hundreds of people met on Friday in Boston, USA to protest against US President Donald Trump’s politics and his advisor to billionaire Elon Musk. Informed AP.
Speakers, including civil and environmental activists and progressives, criticized the Trump administration policy against marginalized communities and urged the gathered to oppose “attacks on democracy”. Others have criticized those steps that they consider to be the breakdown of the federal government or even the coup.
“It is important to get up and protest, not just stay at home and do nothing,” Ellen Epstein of Medford told AP, adding that she feels the need to stand up for what is right. “What is happening now is very bad,” she added.
Diane Bleier (76) from the Lexington for AP said she had lost their children and grandchildren in protest. She is particularly worried that her granddaughters will not have the same rights she had in terms of deciding on her body.
Other demonstrators emphasized the need for support and protection of immigrants and communities of LGBTQ+, which were the target of the restrictive policy of Trump’s administration in the first days of its rule.
“Our government is trying to erase our citizens, people who make up our beautiful country, including queer people, trans people, immigrants, blacks and indigenous people of a different skin color,” said 27-year-old Bostonian Logan Rubio.
The organizers of the Assembly expressed the hope that they will be able to put pressure on political leaders to prove moral courage and oppose Trump’s political agenda.
AP said that the Assembly in Boston was held on the same day as the federal authorities began to be dismissed within the efforts of Trump’s administration to reduce the number of employees in the government, and the day after the opponent of vaccination Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He took an oath as a US Minister of Health.
