'No kings on Presidents Day' rings out from protests against Trump and Musk, over 1,000 Bostonians braved the cold!
'No kings on Presidents Day' rings out from protests against Trump and Musk, over 1,000 Bostonians braved the cold!
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'No kings on Presidents Day' rings out from protests against Trump and Musk
We had 250+ in Pittsburgh braving the cold today! I doubt we'll see any results from these protests, but it's nice to see a public display of our displeasure regardless.
We will only see results if we persist
Not immediately but it does set us up for change down the line. They're a first step to organize for more
Many of the groups organizing them like Indivisible do a lot of directed action and they're about to likely get an influx of new members
Why would you expect a demonstration of 250 people, in a city of 300,000, to have a measurable effect? Or 1,000 out of 650,000?
I hope that's not too discouraging, I am certainly on your side (cheering from Canada) and would love to see the US people rise up en masse, but it is going to take a sustained effort to sway a large population.
This is a very small number of people mobilizing to defend their rights.
In France when we had the demonstration against the change of retirement age, the mobilization lasted over 4 months and every protest accounted from 300k up to 1.2M participants across the country (official numbers, multiply by 3 if you want the Union's number).
The situation is several orders of magnitude more serious in the USA at the moment. I find it very strange, concerning and sad, that people over there seems to just accept their fate, just watch their 300 yo democracy collapse into totalitarianism in a few days.