The anger within the Trump administration bubbled through the Bay Area when lots of to “not my president day” gathered to protest against alleged anti-democratic actions by the Trump government and the Department of Government Efficiency from Elon Musk.
The Monday protests – with large groups in San Jose, Oakland and San Francisco – were a part of various demonstrations protection for the LGBT community and ended initiatives for stocks and variety within the United States.
“We are also together with defeat,” said Berkeley's first poet -Laaureate, Rafael Jesus Gonzalez, on Oakland Pergola next to the Lake Merritt to lots that surrounded him. “We cannot rule fascism in America. We have to come together. “
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Democrats and progressive in the United States have been largely stagnated since President Trump on January 20, and the changes to public authorities, protection for trans people and the enforcement of immigrants. The few protests there were sparsely visited and the energy of those from Trump's first term often lacked.
This changed last weekend in the Bay Area, in which the residents gathered outside of Tesla Showrooms to denounce musk and violate the richest man in the world where it matters: his wallet. Protest signs from the march called for “Musk to Mars”, while other characters tied him to National Socialism after giving a Nazi greeting when President Trump was performed.
Hundreds of demonstrators converged in San Jose in the circle of palm trees in the city center, where they sign “Remove the Muscovites”, “Elon is a terrible president” and “Wake Up America”. The speakers included Ash Kalra Ash Kalra and former supervisor by Santa Clara County Rod Diridon Sr.
After the crowd had grown to an estimated 1,500 demonstrators, they marched around the block in the Plaza de Cesar Chavez Park and sang: “Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Elon Musk has to go.”
Jessie Heminway, a demonstrator in Oakland with a family member in the federal government, said that Musk's cuts in agencies were not authorized and unconstitutional.
“It is a Nuthaus there. They shoot qualified people. It is retaliation, ”said Heminway. “It is totally inappropriate to go away Elon free in the federal government without confirming it.”
She said that she had questioned the purpose of the protest as a political action after the march of women and the black lives Matter skills, which had little effect on public order during Trump's first term. However, she found an answer during the march along the Merritt lake and said: “People have to satisfy and have community.”
Members of the protests differently from long-term organizers from the 1960s to newly activated participants such as 14-year-old Iris Baker.
Baker, who is not binary, joined the protests because the federal government had suspended applications for people who wanted to add “X” as a gender label for passports. “In the eyes of the law it says that folks like me are usually not valid.”
Baker hoped for increasing reporting on the protests. “This protest is more of a general thing to raise awareness, it is more about class awareness. I don't see many protests in the news, and it should be. “
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