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| Another round of anti-Trump protests hits US cities, reasons all over the map |
| 2025-04-20 |
| [IsraelTimes] Thousands decry president’s hardline policies, from immigration to intended deportation of some foreign students, with turnout lower than in previous ‘Hands Off’ rallies But not even tens of thousands, despite pay-for-protest funding? It sounds like nobody cares any more, or perhaps they’re afraid of earning FBI attention… Thousands of protesters rallied Saturday in New York, Washington and other cities across the United States for a second major round of demonstrations against President Donald Trump and his hardline policies.In New York, people gathered outside the city’s main library carrying signs targeting the US president with slogans like “No Kings in America” and “Resist Tyranny.” Many took aim at Trump’s deportations of undocumented migrants, chanting “No ICE, no fear, immigrants are welcome here,” a reference to the role of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency in rounding up migrants. In Washington, DC, protesters voiced concern that Trump was threatening long-respected constitutional norms, including the right to due process. The administration is carrying out “a direct assault on the idea of the rule of law and the idea that the government should be restrained from abusing the people who live here in the United States,” Benjamin Douglas, 41, told AFP outside the White House. Wearing a keffiyeh and carrying a sign calling for the freeing of Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel student protester arrested last month, Douglas claimed individuals were being singled out as “test cases to rile up xenophobia and erode long-standing legal protections.” “We are in a great danger,” said 73-year-old New York protester Kathy Valy, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, adding that their stories of how Nazi leader Adolf Hitler rose to power “are what’s happening here.” “The one thing is that Trump is a lot more stupid than Hitler or than the other fascists,” she said. “He’s being played… and his own team is divided.” ‘SCIENCE IGNORED’ Daniella Butler, 26, said she wanted to “call attention specifically to the defunding of science and health work” by the government. Studying for a PhD in immunology at Johns Hopkins University, she was carrying a map of Texas covered with spots in reference to the ongoing measles outbreak there. Trump’s health chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a noted vaccine skeptic, spent decades falsely linking the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) shot to autism. “When science is ignored, people die,” Butler said. In deeply conservative Texas, the coastal city of Galveston saw a small gathering of anti-Trump demonstrators. “This is my fourth protest and typically I would sit back and wait for the next election,” said 63-year-old writer Patsy Oliver. “We cannot do that right now. We’ve lost too much already.” On the West Coast, several hundred people gathered on a beach in San Francisco to spell out the words “IMPEACH + REMOVE,” the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Others nearby held an upside-down US flag, traditionally a symbol of distress. Organizers hope to use building resentment over Trump’s immigration crackdown, his drastic cuts to government agencies and his pressuring of universities, news media and law firms, to forge a lasting movement. A lot of people voted for him to get all that, so we’re happy. The chief organizer of Saturday’s protests — the group 50501, a number representing 50 protests in 50 states and one movement — said some 400 demonstrations were planned.Four hundred, half a dozen — whatever. Its website said the protests are “a decentralized rapid response to the anti-democratic and illegal actions of the Trump administration and its plutocratic allies” — and it insisted on all protests being non-violent.The group called for millions to take part Saturday, though turnout appeared smaller than the “Hands Off” protests across the country on April 5. Recall that former Wall Street Journal reporter Asra Nomani tracked down the organizers and some of their funders here. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 More like a few thousand in deep blue cities. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2025-04-20 09:07 |
| #3 USAID headquarters visitors entrance photo. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2025-04-20 07:19 |
| #2 1st of all, these Protests are costing a previously But let's say given the usual broad cited "1000's" was around 5,000 nationwide. Using the Official Voter numbers for the Harris/Trump 2024 election of 152,320,193 votes cast. WOW!!!! 0.00328% of the total US voters cared enough to show up for whatever reason. But drilling down to the more likely Protester Political party of Liberal/Socialist/Democrats. HARRIS Voters numbered 75,017,613 in the 2024 election. That's works out to: 0.00666% Interesting and fitting that it works out to have "666". |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2025-04-20 04:40 |
| #1 Studying for a PhD in immunology at Johns Hopkins University Science died when they started using students as cheap labor - rewarding them with degrees instead of $$$. |
| Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-04-20 03:45 |