Anti-Trump, musk demonstrations begin in Los Angeles and in the country

Tens of thousands of people went down to the streets across the country on Saturday to protest against President Trump and a wide range of the actions of his administration, in particular the reduction in government staff, attacks against immigrant and transgender and prices that are in rotation of economies around the world.

More than 500,000 people at the national level have RSVs to attend one of the 1,200 demonstrations in the 50 states, an effort organized by Hands Off!, Indivisible, Moveon and other basic organizations.

At noon, they went to the streets of New York, Washington, Boston, Atlanta, San Francisco and dozens of other cities from one ocean to another.

In Los Angeles, several hundred people with signs bordered two intersections occupied in Los Feliz.

“We, people, are upset,” read a sign. “Canada not for sale,” read another. Sporadic songs have punctuated a constant flow of tambourines, car horns, applause and cheers.

Dunbar Dicks, 47, helped organize the demonstration. He volunteered with indivisible Hollywood since 2016 and said that the group had returned to life and “began to organize shortly after the inauguration”.

The “Hands Off!” Coordinate The demonstrations were the first major demonstrations in opposition to the second term of Trump.

“We believe that we have a duty to exercise our rights to the 1st amendment and we do this between our day work and that we collect our children at daycare,” Dicks said.

Behind him, dozens have sang: “This is what democracy looks like.”

Dicks, from Studio City, said the Republicans “are counting on us not to introduce ourselves.”

His main concerns: the “dismantling of the social security net and governing by Fiat”.

A larger demonstration and Mars is scheduled for 4 p.m. in Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles.

“This day of mass mobilization day is our message to 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 of the “without business” demonstration. “Alongside the Americans across the country, we walk, we rally and protest to demand a stop (vers) chaos and build an opposition movement against the looting of our country.”

In Washington, sheltering the largest band of employees whose agencies have been emptied by the Ministry of Effectiveness of the Elon Musk technology magnate, a sea of ​​people invaded the National Mall, singing “Hey Hey, Ho, Musk and Trump had to go!”

Others wore panels reflecting their status as federal workers, in particular “I took an oath to defend the Constitution” and “federal employment”.

“It gives me the hope of seeing so many people here making this demonstration,” said Terry Manzo, 86, who wore a hat covered with political spindles. “In the DC region, there are so many (federal employees) who are so afraid.”

Manzo has distributed pink postcards that she had made by hand to send to elected officials, exploding them so as not to reduce the actions of Musk and Trump.

Musk’s Doge has led the effort to considerably reduce the scope of the federal government through the abolition of large -scale jobs and mass layoffs of tens of thousands of employees.

This week, the Trump administration announced that it would impose radical prices for imports from all countries on Saturday, tanning the stock market, attaching fears of an American recession and raising questions about the question of whether companies would affect higher costs to consumers.

Trump also announced on Friday that his administration was not going forward with a proposal from the Biden era which aimed to extend the eligibility for anti-obsity drugs to millions of Americans on Medicaid or Medicare.

The White House postponed the visits to the spring garden intended for Saturday, “by abundance of caution and to ensure the safety of all nearby with public demonstrations planned near the White House”, according to a press release.

Whitney Sherman, 38, who traveled from Philadelphia to Washington for the demonstration, said that she desperate the Democrats, who did not much succeed in gathering a coordinated response to Trump and the Congress controlled by Le Républicain. She underlined the senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT.) And the representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (DN.Y.), who has visited the country in recent weeks for rallies which they have nicknamed “combatant the oligarchy”.

Although their events have drawn thousands of people, they are just “independent voices,” said Sherman.

“For all the bad things you can say (republicans), they have rallied around one person. Not to say that queuing is a good thing … But it is effective,” she said. “We need our own 2029 project.”

In Atlanta, thousands of people walked towards the Georgia State Capitol, holding signs that read: “Trade war makes us poor” and “Honk 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 described the management of the economy by the Trump administration and “to attack social security just only scandalous”.

“They went well, far too far,” he said. “It is so obvious that it destroys our fundamental rights regardless of the rule of law. It’s a train wreck. “