Hundreds of demonstrations were expected across the country on Saturday, in the midst of an increasing wave of dissatisfaction on the evisation by President Donald Trump of federal workforce and radical rates that hit the stock market this week.
The gatherings – planned in dozens of cities in the United States, including more than 50 cities across northern California – add to the demonstrations drum which included the “take -offs” repeated last month of the Tesla dealers belonging to the billionaire and principal presidential advisor Elon Musk. They cap a week that saw Wall Street display its most devastating losses since the contribution of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, while Trump unveiled his most punishing tariffs in a moment that he invented as “Liberation Day”.
The demonstrations on Saturday – extending from the hamlet of Maine of almost Isle to the coastal city of southern California of San Diego – aim to “retaliate” against the attempts of Trump and Musk to “take everything they can get their hands”, according to the website of an organizer.
“We are considering a crisis,” said Nancy Latham, an indivisible group organizer East Bay, who plans a demonstration on Saturday afternoon to Frank H. Ogawa Plaza in downtown Oakland. “We are already in a constitutional crisis. If you ask me, there has already been an authoritarian breakthrough. ”
“We say:” Listen, Trump and Musk come for our health care, our social security, our land, our schools, our rights, our voting rights, “she added.
Sporadic and compartmentalized demonstrations in February and early March have made snowball in recent weeks in increasingly widespread and coordinated demonstrations of disgust and anger against the administration of Trump. Last weekend, demonstrators invaded Tesla dealers across the country in order to do sticking stake apart from every 275 company exhibition rooms, often while holding signs declaring “Honk if you hate Elon” and “fight the billionaire broligarchy,” said Associated Press.
In the Bay region, demonstrators of Walnut Creek, Palo Alto, Santa Clara and Berkeley beat drums and launched invective Musk outside of its dealerships.
Attacks have also been reported to certain Tesla dealers, sometimes in the form of inverted cybertrucks, the AP reported. Last month in the county of Palm Beach, Florida, a man crossed a crowd of demonstrators at a Tesla dealer demonstrating against Trump and Musk, but injured anyone.
Saturdays’ rallies seem less focused on Tesla dealerships, and even more on city centers across the country.
They come in the middle of a particularly tumultuous week that ended with Trump introducing a flat rate of 10% on all imports while distinguishing around 60 countries for even harder costs, many of which have exceeded 40%. Investors reacted with dismay, sending the S&P 500 plumming more than 10% in two days, while the NASDAQ finished the week at more than 20% below its record in December.
The resident of Oakland, P. David Pearson, expressed fears on Friday of not being able to pay the rent in the coming years if the losses continue. The 84 -year -old UC Berkeley retirement teacher, said that he was planning to organize a modest rally on Saturday at Piedmont avenue and the 41st street with other retirees, who have all seen their 401K.
“We lose money every day while he goes on this tyranny of prices,” said Pearson, adding that his own retirement accounts have decreased by 25% in recent months.
The country’s organizers have expressed other concerns. Paul OSADEBE, a steward of the federal union and member of the Federal Unionist group, said that he was planning to attend a demonstration at Washington DC on Saturday where his colleagues in the US Department of Housing and Urban Development were threatened daily against their work.
“We know that we have to organize and express ourselves,” said Ossadebe, recalling how colleagues have been encouraged to resign or dismiss unexpectedly, while remaining the employees in their test division were invited to stop accepting new cases.
“I saw an attack constantly in the name of efficiency,” added Ossadebe. “This is every attack you can think of, to try to demoralize and get rid of us.”
Latham considered the growing fervor and the tempo of protests as a means of laying the foundations for the end of the republican control of the House of Representatives of the United States in 2026. In the short term, she expressed the hope that the rallies are accelerating for universities and law firms to resist Trump and to avoid concluding more transactions with the White House to avoid punishing the sanctions and the executive orders president.
“If we have more and more countries saying:” No, we are offset “, then it will become easier for these institutions to fight against him,” said Latham. “And the more people we have on the street saying” it does not agree with us “, the more everyone will be strong.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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