Demonstrators from New York to Alaska, Trump and Muschus reach “Hands away!” Rallies

(Ap) – crowds of people who are livid President Donald Trump The country marches and gathered on Saturday in the numerous American cities on the largest demonstration day through an opposition movement that tries to ensure momentum after the shock of the first weeks of office of the Republicans.

So -called hands! Demonstrations were organized for organized More than 1,200 locations in all 50 states Of more than 150 groups, including civil rights organizations, unions, LBGTQ+ supporters, veterans and election activists. The rallies seemed to be peaceful without direct reports on arrests.

Thousands of demonstrators in cities that divided the nation of Midtown Manhattan according to Anchorage, Alaska, including in several state chapter, attacked Trump and billionaire Elon Muschus‘S actions for reducing the government, the economy, immigration and human rights. On the west coast, in the shadow of the legendary needle of Seattle, demonstrators kept signs with slogans such as “fight against the oligarchy”. Demonstrators sang when they took to the streets in Portland, Oregon and Los Angeles, where they marched from Pershing Square to the town hall.

Slide show: Thousands protest during the hands! Demonstrations

Demonstrators expressed anger about the movements of the administration Fires thousands of federal workersPresent Close the outer offices of the social security authorityPresent Effectively complete entire agenciesPresent Deport immigrantsPresent Scaling the scale for transgender people And Reduce financing for health programs.

Musk, a Trump consultant who operates Tesla, SpaceX and the Social Media platform X, has played a key role in reduction as the head of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency. He says he saves taxpayers billions of dollars.

When asked about the protests, the White House said in a explanation: “President Trump’s position is clear: He always becomes social security, Medicare and Medicaid for beneficiaries. In the meantime, the attitude of the Democrats provides social security, medicaid and Medicare services for illegal aliens that are grown up by these programs.”

Kelley Robinson, President of the Advocacy Group of the Human Rights Campaign, criticized the treatment of LBGTQ+ -as the administration at the rally in the National Mall in Washington, DC, where democratic members of the congress also entered the stage.

“The attacks we see are not only political. They are personal, you,” said Robinson. “They try to forbid our books, they reduce the financing of the HIV prevention, they criminalize our doctors, our teachers, our families and our lives.”

“We don’t want this America, her,” added Robinson. “We want America that we deserve, where dignity, security and freedom do not belong to some of us, but to all of us.”

In Boston, demonstrators swung signs such as “hands from our democracy” and “hands from our social security”.

Mayor Michelle Wu said that she does not want her children and others to live in a world in which threats and intimidation of government tactics and values ​​such as diversity and equality are attacked.

“I refuse to accept that they could grow up in a world in which immigrants like their grandma and grandpa are automatically considered a criminal,” said Wu.

Roger Broom, 66, a pensioner from Delaware County, Ohio, was one of hundreds who gathered in the Statehouse in Columbus. He said he was formerly a Reagan Republican, but was eliminated by Trump.

“He tears this country apart,” said Broom. “It is just a administration of complaints.”

Hundreds of people also demonstrated a few miles from Trump’s golf course in Jupiter in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, where he spent the morning at the club’s senior club championship. People lined both sides of the PGA Drive and encouraged cars to sing horns and sing against Trump.

“You have to keep your hands from our social security,” said Archer Moran of Port St. Lucie, Florida.

“The list of what you need to endure your hands is too long,” said Moran. “And it is astonishing how quickly these protests have taken place since taking office.”

The president went to Florida on Saturday and planned this again on Sunday, said the White House.

Activists have staged nationwide demonstrations Against Trump and Musk several times since Trump returned to office. But before Saturday the opposition movement had no mass mobilization like that Frauenmarsch in 2017What brought thousands of women to Washington after Trump’s first inauguration, or the Black Lives Matter Demonstrations that broke out in several cities After George Floyd’s killing by the police in Minneapolis in 2020.

In Charlotte, North Carolina, demonstrators said that they support a variety of reasons, from social security and education to immigration and reproductive rights of women.

“Regardless of your party, regardless of who you chose, what is going on today is what is going on today,” said Britt Castillo, 35, from Charlotte. “It is disgusting and broken as our current system, as the current administration tries to repair things – it is not the way to do it. They don’t listen to people.”

Deborah and Douglas Doherty were among thousands that marched through the city center of San Jose, California, California.

Deborah, a graphic designer, is a veteran of the 2017 women’s march and was nervous that fewer people were assigned to Trump this time. “All cities have to appear,” she said. “Now people are a bit deaf that is terrifying themselves.”