More than 1,400 protests against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are planned to be held this Saturday in the 50 states of the country. Organized under the motto Hands out! For a pro democracy movement, the marches, which respond to what the organizers call a “hostile power” and an attack on the rights and freedoms of the Americans, will tour the capitals of the states of east to west of the country. The concentrations have been convened in federal buildings, state capitolios, social security headquarters and parks and municipalities. In states like New York, where protest official It was held in its capital, Albany, there was a replica in the Big Apple, where a rainy and gray time did not prevent a great participation impossible to quantify: in the US it is not customary to give assistance figures.
However, aerial images captured by local television networks, as well as publications on social networks, have shown many protesters in Atlanta, Boston, Washington and Philadelphia; Also in Colorado, New Hampshire, Arizona, Maine and other places, in a time arch that started on the east coast and will end in the west. The mobilization, the first massive after Trump’s possession in January, has also extended outside the United States, especially following.
Almost 600,000 people had registered throughout the US to attend the marches, according to indivisible, one of the organizations that leads the movement in collaboration with a national coalition formed by civil rights organizations, veterans, women’s groups, unions and defenders of the LGBTQ+community. But the fact of being held in public places allows us to assume that the number of real participants – another very American custom: to register to attend an open event – has been significantly greater. Unlike the mass protests that marked the first assumption of Trump’s power, in 2017, such as in his second term the Republican had barely faced a massive citizen response. In fact, the warm opposition seemed to be the general tonic so far, as demonstrated by a concentration held last Monday in New York on the occasion of the Trans Visibility Day, which gathered 200 attendees.
The mobilization of this Saturday also responds to self -criticism: many on the left – in the left of the establishment The Democratic Party is understood – they have lamented what they consider a lack of firm resistance against Trump. The Democratic Party still does not lead after the electoral defeat of Kamala Harris, and recent events, of the Administration, have highlighted their internal cracks. But the recent tour of several points of the country of Democrats Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, with great public assistance, and his right hand, the Milmillonario Musk.
The organizers of the mobilization of this Saturday, among which are progressive groups such as Third Act and reproductive Freedom for All claim to have three claims: “The end of the multimillion -dollar control and the unbridled corruption of the Trump administration; the end of the cut of federal funds for Medicaid, the Social Security and other programs on which the working people depend; immigrants, trans people and other communities ”. That is, an amendment to the entire agenda of the Republican Administration.
In addition, the events convened this Saturday coincide with the period prior to the main primary elections and the ongoing legal battles in which Trump is involved.
All these movements have started in recent weeks, with the intention of hilvanar efforts so far uncoordinated; that is, to create a common front against Trump’s executive agenda and. Third Act, a group co -founded by environmentalist Bill McKibben and focused on the third age activism, has been associated with other groups such as indivisible and Moveon to lead the protests. “Donald Trump and Elon Musk believe that this country belongs to them,” says the Third Act website. “They are monopolizing everything they can, and it is up to us to contract. On April 5 [por este sábado] We will go out with a clear message: Outside hands ”of the public thing.
“Throughout the country, basic activists, workers, community leaders and common people are joining to say that it is time for multimillionaires and extremist legislators to take their hands off our medical care, our salaries, our safety and our rights,” said the spokesman for the call. “Trump and his billionaire allies are openly planning a power take to go back our rights, strip protection workers and dismantle the foundations of democracy at the service of tax exemptions for rich and corporations. What is at stake cannot be more.”
It is, in any case, the first transverse initiative against the agenda of the second Trump administration. In recent weeks, the call had occurred as training protest 50501, which mobilized a few thousand people against the restriction of voting rights – which especially harms African Americans – while other calls such as concentrations Tesla takedown “Pacific, brand, and the marches under the motto Not My President They highlighted the excess corporate presence in the new administration.
