A peaceful demonstration in downtown San Diego focuses on Donald Trump, Elon Musk

While the Trump administration concluded its third week in power – with 53 decrees disputed by 41 proceedings, an incursion led by Elon Musk in the US Treasury blocked on Saturday by a federal judge, and a push to get President Donald Trump again – San Diegans embarked on Saturday in their own form of dissent: sustained and peaceful protest.

For at least the third time this week, they walked to express anger, fear, courage and resistance to hatred, fascism, oligarchy and eroding civil rights.

During a Sunday morning demonstration, which started at Waterfront Park and woven from the city center, people came from Point Loma, El Cajon, Vista and Santee. There were babies, high school students, families and retirees in a crowd that seemed easily to exceed 1,000 people. Their hand -made posters have listed a long catalog of values: support for federal workers and Palestine. Support for immigrants and people in homosexual relations. Support for “education and not expulsion”. Support for democracy, empathy, science, regular procedure, social security, constitution and love.

They were united to protest against two American leaders – Elon Musk and President Donald Trump – and a scourge: fascism.

A song, which corresponded to a poster, “said:” No Trump. No KKK. No Fascist USA “another was” Hey Hey. Ho Ho. The Nazis must go. Other versions of this song replaced the “Nazis” with “Elon Musk” and “Donald Trump”.

While Trump was a main objective, at least as much of the wrath of the crowd addressed Musk, who is the named chief of the new Ministry of Effectiveness of the Government and whose directives aimed to shrink the federal government and to Replace civil servants with new hires faithful to the new leadership.

A poster played on Musk’s first name and called it “F’elon”. Another showed Trump and Musk in an intimate pose.

“We were pushed to the corner,” said Carla Severe to the crowd through a megaphone a few minutes before the start of walking. “The people will not look and will leave Elon Musk to delight the treasure and destroy the regulations intended to protect the people. Elon Musk is an enemy of the people. We are going to fight tyranny against Musk while trying to strip us of our rights … The face of tyranny is Elon Musk. »»

The event was not organized by an entity and was announced by publications on social networks.

The day started with speeches and continued with a march which extended on blocks and moved to several districts of the city center before returning to Waterfront Park.

In interviews, people said they wanted to support others and do not just walk for causes that affect them directly. A woman who gave her name as Rome, 31, from San Diego, said: “I do not enter all categories, but I always think it is important for us to defend these people”, A -Ali said. “I know that it has a lot to do with immigrants and things as right now, but it’s also bigger for the LGBT community.

“I am a lesbian and my partner is in the army, and it is simply really important – to defend us all. It is not only a person or a category. It’s all of us as people.

Abby Deckert, 17, a senior of Santana High School, was turned upside down by the “Plans of Trump to take over Palestine and especially how he claims that he wants to encourage the Palestinians to permanently move away from their land, which belongs, ”said Deckert. “We have been fighting for the whole year to get this ceasefire. Now it’s finally here. And then we have our own president to support someone else’s management of the land, so I was simply upset by this. »»

DECKERT also cares deeply about the environment and said that walking is a way to put pressure on the legislators.

A 52 -year -old American navy veteran who lives in the county of North and who gave his first name as a cliff, said that he was afraid to give his family name, for fear of dealing with the consequences of the government for dissident.

“It’s terrifying, the direction we are heading in. What this regime – is not an administration is a diet – what they allow to happen, without any consideration for the people they are elected to take care of “, he said. “In my opinion, they seem to worry about themselves and money.”

Cliff said that he was particularly concerned about Musk, whom he described as “a civilian, an unadred official, not assessed, without security authorization, pretending to manage a department that is not even – it’s even not a department. Doge. “He said he said it” the dog “because the department” does not even exist. It is not real. The use of his first name gives him legitimacy, he added .

“No one stops Elon,” he said. “To allow a fair civilian to release sensitive information – I am a veteran. He has access to my disability files, medical information, my address, a social security number … It is terrifying to think that it has this access. What will he do with it. Are all these technical brothers – will they stop my payment because I put something on Facebook or in other social media, or here I am interviewed or on video? “”

Until now, the Musk team has had access to critical data at the Ministry of Labor, the Treasury Department and the Ministry of Education. These include “medical and financial records of millions of Americans, including those who have filed security complaints concerning their employers,” reported the Associated Press. Musk workers also presented themselves in the Veterans Department, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, also reported the Associated Press.

Cliff added that Trump and Musk ‘actions have “an impact on people who voted for Trump. … We want them to wake up. I don’t wish them any harm. I don’t wish them one bad Testament, “he said.” I just want them to do what is going on in our country right now. “

Severe’s speech to the crowd has woven the ascent of musk together, musk decision to eliminate federal workforce, push for tax reductions for the richest Americans, erosion of opportunities economic for the Americans of the middle and workers’ middle and a weakened contract between the Americans and a weakened contract between between the Americans of the middle class and the working between a contract between the interviews between the middle class and workers between the Americans Between the Americans between the Americans and the contract between a contract between the Americans between the average classes the voters and the elected officials who have lost the confidence of their voters.

“I can’t even concentrate because I am in a constant anxiety because my country becomes a fascist state,” she said. “We can’t just go down and let it happen.”

Severe, 37, said that she considered the rapid deployment of Trump’s multiple decrees as “a strategy to overwhelm. It is a strategy for depressing. It is a strategy to weaken. It is a strategy to destroy hope. But we cannot destroy hope. We have to get up. »»

She also had hardwords for Musk, who said “did banal cruelty”.

Marshall Hullin, of El Cajon, spoke of the importance of collaboration and communication as a means of protecting and preserving democracy. “Do not let them erase history,” he told the crowd. “We have a duty to our ancestors. We have a duty to our children and their children. »»

“I know that many of you can disagree on this subject, but do not remember contempt for those of Maga. I think they are really disillusioned. I think they need a lot of love. I think they need a lot of help. So don’t turn your back on anyone if you can avoid it, “he said.

There was no counter-check in the morning of the morning.

Originally published: February 9, 2025 at 5:57 p.m. PST