On Wednesday, more than 100 people gathered on the stairs outside of the West Virginia Capitol on Wednesday with protest signs and chants to spoke out against recent measures by both state and republican officials.
The demonstrators condemned guidelines from Project 2025, a right series of ideals that were published by the conservative Heritage Foundation as a wish list for Donald Trump’s presidency, which are now being implemented by federal executive commands and measures. The demonstrators also shared concerns about Elon Musk’s recent role in the federal government and defendant movements at the state level, which reflect those that take place at the national level.
The protest on Wednesday was a basic effort that was largely organized through social media. It was part of a national project called “50501”, which, according to Posts, 50 protests, 50 states, ie one day. Outside of contributions to Reddit and other social media website, the origins of the protest day are unknown.
In West Virginia there was no specific organization, while no specific organization supervised the protest, several non -profit organizations – the arm of the American Civil Liberties Union and the West Virginia Women’s March – present on Wednesday, distributed the literature and contact people, They are who are concerned and livid about the latest federal and state politics.
Brianna Griffith von Montgomery said that she came to the protest on Wednesday because she was “afraid” because of her transgender friends, who were targeted by both state and federal governments.
Griffith, who has protected in the state capital against countless questions of labor rights for teachers up to the end of the removal of the mountain peaks, said that people are fed up with defending their rights and beliefs against constant attacks.
“I just have the feeling that we lose our democracy – I hate saying fascism because it really sounds extremely, but it really feels like this at the moment,” said Griffith. “I think more people do things out here, the more our state legislation will see that you have to answer us.”
An LGBTQIA -Pride flag hung on Griffith’s shoulders -and several other demonstrators -than they sang with the crowd. She said she bought several to hang her house in a Montgomery mourning to show her neighbors that if you identify as LGBTQIA, you had an ally nearby. The flags in your house, she said, now join the multiple Trump flags that hang on the houses of your neighbors.
“Sometimes it can be a little scary [speaking out]But I think it is important to let people know that we are here too, ”said Griffith. “If there are people like me down here, I want you to know that we are here. There is more of us than you think and we are crazy. “
Lack of guidelines for the government
Aaron Allred, who acted under Republican and Democratic leadership as a legislative auditor of the state for 30 years, took protest on Wednesday with severe concerns regarding the lack of security measures in both the federal and state governments.
Allred said it was confusing to see that federal actions are proposed – such as efforts to make effort, federal scholarships and attacks by Musk against Medicare and Medicaid – that would harm the residents in West Virginia and Appalachia disproportionately, where people voted for Trump.
“I think we have to take what Muschus and Trump do. Regardless of whether you are a democrat or a Republican, you should expect a separation of power, ”said Allred. “If the congress is not a check for musk and Trump, we humans have to protest peacefully and we have to be ready to be ready to be ready and say in the middle of the political spectrum and say:“ America has never is based on a manager [doing] Whatever the hell he wants. “
At the state level, as the Republican super majority has determined the legislator and performance.
Now this office expressly answers the Senate President and the spokesman for the house. Without the approval, no audits or reports can be created or released, so that a once independent and lucid process was now inherently partisan.
“You have made the guardrails that are important for the proper functioning of the government,” said Allred. “In my 31 years [at the Legislative Auditor’s Office]Nobody ever told me what I was looking at and what I could check and what I could publish. You have to have an independent voice that says the truth with facts, and I think we go away. In the long run, this will bite us into the back. “
