“They’re dismantling our country. They’re looting our government. And they think we’ll just watch.”
Boston probably had somewhere around 50k people. Don’t hear the news media talking numbers or even showing the full crowd. Figures.
Unfortunately it seems like the Democratic Party is doing their best to co-opt the movement with messages like votes, fight with the judiciary, and use politics to obstruct. Look I get it’s the right thing for them to say…
But let’s make sure a populist movement pushes the party way to the left like the much much smaller tea party movement did to the right.
Thanks for posting. This highlights a bit better the size.
And only marginal news coverage… remember when a bunch of geriatrics were role playing as revolutionaries and talking about Obama. Billionaire class owns the media and the parties
I was in Anacortes, WA today for a memorial service of a friend and saw these people! I was honking and giving them thumbs up and everyone in the car was clapping. Yes it’s ironic that I’m in a Tesla. It’s 6 years old, and we cannot sell it because it’s paid off and wayyyy cheaper in WA to charge the car at home vs gas.
Nothing wrong with having bought a Tesla 6 years ago. I hope you’ve got a sticker of some kind on it saying as much.
Denver had a big turnout
Went to mine and there was a 350+ person turn out in a small red town. We were all out there as it hailed on us and we were harassed by Trump voters. Doing what we can.
A small protest in a red place is likely more meaningful than a large one in a blue. Thanks for getting out there.
As I said to my girlfriend today, a honk from a single pick-up truck is worth the honks from two EVs.
That is to say,
I expect the EVs to honk, but pick-up trucks can go either way. Therefore, their support feels more precious and exciting.
Thank you 🙏
Keep it up 💪
👊🇺🇸🔥
Huge turnout.
Major cities: https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/114288115617938919 and small towns all over
:)
They are big crowds. Small towns. Big cities. Old people, young people.
The important part is remembering one thing. There are more of us than there are of the ones in power.
Far, far, far more.
I went to the one in my small city in SC. Had a few hundred people along a decently busy road. I was pleasantly surprised as hundreds of passing cars showed support over the 2 hours we were there, and only a dozen or so expressed opposition. I was not surprised that a majority of passers-by didn’t engage at all though. The real majority in this country is not left or right, it’s apathy.
I’m in super red Cookeville TN and there were tons of people at the courthouse. Kind of shocking tbh.
You didnt join them?
Honestly, we were there for a soccer tournament for be son. So we were driving to the game. But seeing this protest gave us life.
Current estimates are 2.3 million across 1400 organized protests.
Now, Europeans, what was you saying?
Edit: estimate is now at 3.5million
Source was something else I was wrong
Edit 2: Yeah, take the numbers with a grain of salt. I’m sure we’ll hear the actual numbers sooner rather than later.
Now, Europeans, what was you saying?
I know that’s a somewhat rhetorical question, but that’s how Der Spiegel reports on it (Google Translated):
Mass protests against the US government
They are now in resistance against Trump II.
Donald Trump is massively pushing ahead with the restructuring of US democracy. Resistance has been limited so far. Now people are taking to the streets nationwide, in Washington, New York, Chicago. They are warning the Republican: “Hands off!”
“We shall overcome,” the protest brass band sings upstairs at the Parkman Bandstand, and demonstrators below sing along in chorus. Thousands of people gathered at 11 a.m. this Saturday morning in Boston Common Park, around the venerable bandstand. To protest the Trump administration. And to have fun. Even though it’s five degrees cold and rain is forecast.
Over a thousand registered demonstrations
When the brass band plays “O when the saints,” some of the demonstrators even dance along. Almost everyone here has brought a homemade sign. “Hands off our democracy,” it reads, “President not King,” or “There isn’t a big enough sign to list all the reasons I’m here.”
“Hands off” is the motto of this rally and the approximately 1,200 other protest events that have been registered for this Saturday: in every US state, from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast. Organizers had previously estimated that there could be more than 250,000 participants nationwide. Initially, given the large number of events, there was no reliable information on the total number of participants.
• In the US capital, Washington, thousands of demonstrators gathered at the Washington Monument near the White House.
• In New York, too, despite the drizzle, thousands demonstrated against Trump and his close advisor Elon Musk, the multi-billionaire head of the electric car company Tesla. In Bryant Park, they held up signs with slogans like “Pull the plug on Elon” or “I can only write this because there was a Department of Education.”
• There were also larger protests in other cities – such as Atlanta, Miami, and Chicago.
And in Boston, too. “Hands Off” is intended to be the first nationwide mass protest against Trump II. Many participants believe it is high time. Because so far, public resistance in the USA has been limited
First they come for the scientists
Here in Boston, where the American Revolution began a good 250 years ago, frustration is great, especially because the Trump administration is targeting science. Boston, with its world-famous elite universities like MIT and Harvard and its biotechnology companies, is the knowledge mecca of the USA. And the new administration has not only cut research funding for various scientists. It is also putting pressure on Harvard and other universities to allow interference with their independence.
Pamela, 61, who does not want her last name published, wrote “First they come for the scientists” on her sign – in reference to the quote by Martin Niemöller: “When the Nazis took the communists, I kept silent, I wasn’t a communist.”
She says she is not a scientist herself, but Trump, Musk, and Robert Kennedy Jr. are on the verge of undermining the USA’s exceptional position in research. “We have made such great strides and breakthroughs in recent years,” says Pamela, but now politics is putting everything at risk: “our economy, scientific progress, our health.”
Gravestones for Democracy
Although it has started to rain, the crowd is growing. Thousands are moving toward City Hall. “No, No, No. Donald Trump has got to go,” the people chant, and the trumpeters and trombonists of the brass band play along to the beat. The demonstration passes the Granary Burning Ground, the historic cemetery where heroes of the American Revolution such as Samuel Adams and Paul Revere are buried
A dozen gray gravestones made of construction foam hang on the cemetery fence today. They bear inscriptions such as “Here lies Free Speech,” “In Memory of International Alliances,” “Here lies Education for All,” and “In Memory of Climate Science.”
Caitlin de Angelis, 41, and her family designed them. They worked on the gravestones for a week, says the historian, who has researched this cemetery herself. “Donald Trump is attacking our civil rights, our economy, our foreign neighbors,” says de Angelis. “It’s important to show the whole world that so many people here are against it—in our entire country.” Her parents are currently at a demonstration in Maine.
Whether in Providence, Rhode Island, or Portsmouth, New Hampshire: in several other cities here in New England in the northeastern United States, “Hands Off” protests with several thousand participants are taking place almost simultaneously, despite the weather.
“Hands Off” chants the crowd in Boston as Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu appears in the rain. “This is our city,” Wu shouts, “and you will never get us down.” When she finishes, the people sing “We shall not be ruled.” Shortly afterwards, the demonstration is over, and the demonstrators crowd into the subway. Soaked, but inspired.
With material from the agencies
France is proud of you.
Strange thing tho, I looked at some news channels to see beautiful images of the crowds and they talked about it way more on French TV (BFM etc) than US TV (the only news channel I have is CNN, which shows more adds than news WTF?)
There were zero mainstream media outlets at the protest I went to (which was in a state’s capitol city.)
People in the crowd pointed it out, loudly and frequently enough that for a brief moment, one of the crowd’s chants became, “Where’s the media?” (Or something very similar; I don’t remember verbatim.)
I think we should hold our next events in front of prominent media offices. The news won’t come to us? We’ll go to the news. We have to make it impossible for them to ignore us.
Remember, billionaires do not want people organizing at all.
All the US tv stations are owned by one oligarch or another. None of them have broadcast much of the numbers. They merely do report these things as “large and significant” to say that they aren’t behind on the happenings, but they’ll spare the details until things like AP and Guardian, and NPR start reporting with solid facts.
That’s why I have been a strong advocate for making sure the crowds are visualized. It’s harder to discount.
This is presumably part of the problem here in America, and why it took as long as it did to get this many people activated and mobilized. Either way, organizers have been organizing. The movement is growing across this very large country of ours.
Oh forgot to add this:
Et vive la liberté !
Now, Europeans, what was you saying?
Good start.
This 100%
This isn’t the end, but the beginning. There’s a lot of fight left, don’t make the mistake of thinking we’re done now.
Who in the world would think we’re done now?
Anyone who’s seen the last 30 years of American history? It’s all about doing the minimum effort, patting yourselves on the back and then expecting the world to see you as a beacon of justice and liberty.
Probably all of the BLM protesters
3.5 million out of what, 350 million? 1% is still not enough, but it is a start, and that counts!
There’s never such a thing as “enough” as long as Trump is still president but it’s impressive and a good start. And it gives hope especially to those protesting that they are not alone and resistance is not futile.
That’s very, very significant.
If that number is reliable. It would be nice.
Exponentially larger than the last protests, thats for sure.
The only number I can find thats more reliable is the 2.3m which is still big.
Great to see - we had a lot of folks out on the West Coast (unsurprisingly)! Mind sharing where you are getting that estimated data from?
I can’t actually. I thought it was something it wasn’t and now I’m really confused.
All good - thanks for responding back and hopefully we get confirmation of similar numbers eventually!
Would love to share the source for the turnout estimates around, if you have it handily!
I thought I had the source, but I was wrong.
I can’t verify it.
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Yep the vanguard are making a showing this weekend - if this is the start I’m liking where we’re headed. Canadians pay attention, I know you’ve been looking for signs of life. I hope this helps you guys relax even a tiny bit.
We had a pretty good turnout in Ventura CA. It was heartening to see the number of people who showed up. Figured it would be a couple hundred people at most. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBvA3Bp2gwI
every time I see these I have no idea about it until it’s actually happening. I’d love to join and stand up for what’s right but I have no idea how to find these before they actually start lol
Also here on Lemmy:
The 50501 Mirror Lemmy Community shows what’s on reddit without having to go in reddit:
Thank you for sharing those.
The Manhattan one was pretty big today.
Saw one counter protestor, who oddly was a black woman. She didn’t seem entirely well based on what she said when people talked to her
Quisling?
More likely, one of the many people with untreated mental disorders. Mental health is not a priority for our society.
You’re right, it definitely isn’t.
We had a really good crowd in my purple area of a red state! People of all ages. Lots of good signs. I need to make something good for the next one.
