Millions of people participated in protests against Donald Trump and Elon Musk in all 50 American states and around the world during Saturday (6), organized by a pro-democracy movement in response to what they call “hostile shot” and attack on American rights and freedoms.
called “hands off!” State caps, federal buildings, congressional offices, social security headquarters, parks and municipalities of the United States were held in state caps, offices.
Anywhere “may we ensure that they hear us.” It requires “the end of this billionaire power,” the organizers said.
“Whether you are mobilized by the attacks on our democracy, the job cut, the invasion of privacy or the attack on our services – this time is for you. We are preparing to build a massive and visible national rejection of this crisis,” the event’s leaflets say.
Nearly 600,000 people signed up to attend events, some of which took place in large cities such as London and Paris, according to Indivisible, one of the organizations that lead the movement in collaboration with a national coalition that includes civil rights organizations, veterans, women’s rights groups, unions and LGBTQ+defenders.
Organizers say they have three objectives: “The end of the billionaire and unbridled corruption of the Trump administration; the end of the cutting of federal funds for medicaid, social security and other programs on which workers depend; and the end of attacks on immigrants, trans people and other communities.”
A CNN He contacted the White House for a statement.
Deputies participated in the protests
During the protest in Washington, representatives went up to the podium to talk about the Trump government, including Democratic Deputy Jamie Raskin, who said there was no future with a president who has “Mussolini’s policy and Herbert Hoover’s economy.”
“Our founders have written a constitution that does not start with ‘us, the dictators’, the preamble says ‘we, the people,’ said Raskin before a multitude of thousands gathered in the monument to Washington, holding posters condemning the administration.
“No moral person wants a dictator who destroys the economy and who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing,” added the deputy.
Protest participants traveled from all over the country to the capital, in a demonstration of strength on concerns about administration policies.
Protesters in the National Mall shouted, “Hey, Trump has to go out,” while holding posters saying “protect our constitution” and “take the hands of our rights.”
“If you want a country that still believes in due process of law, we have to fight for it,” said Democrat of Minnesota, Ilan Omar, in the protest in Washington.
“If you believe in a country where we take care of our neighbors, we take care of the poor and make sure our children have a future they can believe, we have to fight for it,” he added.
Florida deputy Maxwell Frost also spoke, asking people to mobilize protesting, donating, participating in management actions and focusing on legislative strategies.
“Throughout human history, authoritarian are never satisfied with the power they have, so they test the boundaries, they exceed the boundaries, they infringe the law and then look at the audience to see if they are quiet or if they are noisy,” said Frost
In Los Angeles, protesters marched along a 1.6 km circuit towards the city, shouting “power to the people” and wielding posters with messages such as “take the hands of education” and “resist, resist”.
Since Trump took office, his government has been openly talked about his efforts to cut federal spending, regardless of who this may hurt.
Thousands of federal officials were dismissed or received immediate termination notifications as part of Trump and Musk’s plan to reduce the size of the federal government.
Musk, the richest man in the world, has pressured policies to reduce spending as head of the so -called government efficiency department.
Trump and his team have also taken steps to repress immigration by aggressively pressuring Ice to accelerate the pace of migrant prisons and promoting mass deportation plans, although the government has made mistakes, including.
“They tell us that immigrants are stealing our jobs, but they are sending jobs abroad and hiring corporate lawyers to go and end the unions,” said Frost.
“They tell us that trans people are a threat to our children, but they are dismantling public education. They are denying the climate crisis. They are poisoning our planet. They are doing nothing about the national public health emergence of armed violence,” added the deputy.
The Trump administration has often questioned climate science and said it will revert major climate policies, including rules aimed at pollution of vehicles and power plants, in a major scam for United States progress in clean air, clean water and climate action.
Trump also ordered the federal government to re -raise its weapon policies that could restrict the rights of arms of Americans.
Frost called the current state of politics in the United States of an “insidious rise of authoritarianism” fueled by “corrupt billionaires and megacorporations” who think they have the right to control all aspects of their citizens’ lives, including freedom of expression.
Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest, a Palestinian refugee whose Green Card was revoked for his involvement in Columbia University demonstrations, raised frightening questions about whether people can actually exercise their constitutionally protected right to freedom of expression.
“Our communities are paying the price while the world’s trumps and musks profit. It’s not just money but power,” wrote the organizers of “Hands Off!”
“This administration is aiming at all that is not part of the 1%, veterans, children, the elderly, farmers, immigrants, transgender people and political opponents. All to consolidate power and reward their allies,” he added.
Although protests across the country were largely peaceful in downtown Lafayette, Indiana, a man took a long gun out of the car and approached the crowd.
Lafayette police say the man tried to make a legal conversion at a cross near the Tippecanoe County Court, but was blocked by protesters on the street.
The man left the truck and, according to the police testimony, was hit in the head by a protester after the tensions increased between him and the multitude of protesters.
The truck driver then returned to the vehicle and took a gun, which he later described as an act of self-defense, before placing it back on his truck, says the statement.
Lafayette police owned the man after receiving reports that he had pointed to the gun to the protesters. However, police said that after investigating the incident, they determined that he had not pointed to the gun to anyone and released him.
Presidents of labor unions manifest themselves
Two presidents of federal employee unions spoke on Saturday against Trump and his policies to federal workers in the protest in Washington.
“[O] Trump government is completely destroying public services in this country. That’s right. They claim to be making the government more efficient, ”said the president of the National Federation of Federal Employees Randy Erwin.
“This is a joke, guys. This is a cruel joke. They are doing exactly the opposite,” Erwin added.
The NFFe and the American Government employees federation are part of a union coalition that filed a lawsuit at the US District Court in San Francisco this week seeking to prevent Trump government from ending collective bargaining rights for many federal officials.
“They thought we were easy targets. But let me say something about union and veterans members. We will not be intimidated. I am also a veteran. I am an army veteran. We will not be silenced.
Everett Kelley, presidente da American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE)
Erwin called the Trump government action “the biggest attack on collective bargaining we have ever seen in this country.”
“Affge was in the courts, in the media, in Congress and here with you on the street. And we are not just in court, but we are kicking your butt while we are in court, and we will continue to kick your butt,” said Kelley.
Since taking office, Trump has sought to reshape the federal workforce. In one of his first actions, he ended the remote work for government officials and the agencies received guidance on how they can nullify the union’s collective bargaining agreements on Teleworking and Remote Work.
At least 121,000 workers have been fired from federal agencies so far, according to the last count of the CNN, on March 28.
