Tens of thousands of people took to the streets throughout the country on Saturday to protest against President Trump and a wide range of the actions of his administration, including government reduction, attacks on the rights of immigrants and transgender people, and tariffs who are making economies worldwide.
More than 500,000 people throughout the country RSVP'D to attend one of the 1,200 protests organized by Hands Off!, Indivisible, Moveon and other organizations, many linked to progressive policy.
They went up to the streets of New York, Washington, Boston, Atlanta, San Francisco and dozens of other cities from Costa to Coast. The protesters in the Vinícola country of Sonoma County sang with popular songs by Woody Guthrie. Goteos activists in the conservative heart of Orange County drowned the shouts of a handful of Trump supporters who got into a manifestation of Huntington Beach.
People meet for the demonstration of “ hands outside! '' In opposition to the steep tariffs of the Trump administration
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At the end of the afternoon, thousands of protesters went to Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles to protest both the Trump administration and the multimillion -dollar advisor Elon Musk. The messages in the banks of the protester went from indignation to humor when the speakers gathered the crowd for a march to the City Council. The Political Street Theater included an uncle Sam, a woman disguised as a skeleton with a stamped dress with a Trump image, and a speaker that identified himself as a trillionaire for Trump. Floating on the head, a Humpty Dumpty giant balloon wore a Trump hairstyle.
“This is incredible. I am crying now because when we arrived in February, we only cover a corner,” said Oxnard resident Katherine Clark Goldman, in a demonstration of Ventura with about 1,000 attendees who aligned in the street for two blocks.
In Los Angeles, several hundred people with signs aligned two intersections occupied in the happy ones.
“We, the people, we are angry,” said a sign. “Canada not for sale,” another read. The sporadic songs scored a constant current of through, cars, applause and cheers.
Dunbar Dicks, 47, helped organize the protest. Hollywood has been offered as a volunteer since 2016 and said the group returned to life and “began to organize shortly after the inauguration.”
People meet for the demonstration of “ hands outside! '' In opposition to tariffs, programs of programs and mass layoffs of federal workers of the Trump administration in Hollywood and Vermont.
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The coordinated “Hands outside!” The protests were the first great demonstrations in opposition to Trump's second mandate.
“We feel that we have the duty to exercise our rights to the first amendment and we are only doing this among our daily work and picking up our children's children,” Dicks said.
Behind him, dozens sang: “This is how democracy looks.”
Dicks, from Studio City, said the Republicans “have us not to present themselves.”
Its main concerns: the “dismantling of the Social Security Network and the Government by Fiat”.
People meet for “hands outside!” Demonstration in Hollywood and Vermont in Los Angeles.
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“This day of mass mobilization is our message for the world that we do not consent to the destruction of our government and our economy for the benefit of Trump and its billionaire allies,” according to the description of the event for the protest of “hands outside.” “Together with Americans from all over the country, we are marching, gathering and protesting to demand a stop [to] Chaos and build an opposition movement against the looting of our country. ”
In Washington, the home of the largest strip of employees whose agencies have been destroyed by the Efficiency Department of the Musk government, a sea of people swarmed in the National Shopping Center, singing “Hello, Ho Ho, Musk and Trump have to leave!”
Others carried signs that reflected their status as federal workers, including “I made an oath to defend the Constitution” and the “jobs of the federals matter.”
“I hope to see this many people here doing this protest,” said Terry Manzo, 86, who wore a hat covered with political pins. “In the DC area, there are so many [federal employees] They are so afraid. “
Manzo delivered pink postcards that he had made by hand to send to elected officials, criticizing them for not reducing the actions of Musk and Trump.
A “hands out” sign is published where people meet for demonstration
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The Dux de Musk has led the effort to drastically reduce the scope of the federal government through large -scale employment cuts and mass layoffs of tens of thousands of employees.
This week, the Trump Administration announced that it would impose radical tariffs on imports from all countries on Saturday, hygaging the stock market, fanning the fears of a recession of the United States and asking questions about whether companies would transmit the highest costs for consumers.
Trump also announced on Friday that his administration is not advancing with a proposal of the Biden era that aimed to expand eligibility for obesity medications to millions of Americans in Medicaid or Medicare.
The White House reprogrammed the spring Garden tours for Saturday, “by caution and to guarantee the safety of all the vicinity to the public demonstrations planned near the White House,” according to a press release.
The protesters hold signs in the manifestation “Hands OFF!” In Los Angeles.
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“It is due to protests throughout the country that we have voting rights, that we have civil rights … and it is protests like this in the country that took me home to Vietnam's house,” representative Mike Thompson (D-St. Helena), a recipient of the purple heart due press. “You are on the right side of the story!”
Whitney Sherman, 38, who traveled from Philadelphia to Washington for the protest, said he has desperately desperately, who have largely not being able to gather a coordinated response to Congress controlled by Trump and republican control. He pointed to Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT.) And the representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (DN.Y.), who has traveled the country in recent weeks for the demonstrations they have called “the Oligarchy of Lucha”.
While their events have attracted thousands, they are only “independent voices,” said Sherman.
People meet in Pasadena for Trump's protest
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“For all the bad things you can say about [Republicans]They have recovered around a single person. Not saying that falling into row is good … but it's effective, “he said.” We need our own 2029 project. “
In Atlanta, Miles marched to the Capitol of the State of Georgia, holding signals that said: “The commercial war makes us poor” and “horn if you hate Elon Musk”.
David Williams, 79, who attended the rally, told Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he had accumulated his retirement savings for more than 45 years. He called the management of the economy by the Trump administration and “an attack on social security nothing more than scandalous.”
“They have gone too far,” he said. “It is so obvious that it is destroying our basic rights without taking into account the rule of law. It is a trains shock.”
