Protests will put pressure on the president and weaken the extent to which he can say he commands broad support.
The protest takes place on Labor Day, a federal holiday dating back to 1894 recognizing workers’ contributions to America. This year, it falls on September 1.
On the website, the organizers listed the following demands:
- Stop the billionaire takeover corrupting our government.
- Protect and defend Medicaid, Social Security, and other programs for working people.
- Fully funded schools, and health care and housing for all.
- Stop the attacks on immigrants, Black, indigenous, trans people, and all our communities.
- Invest in people not wars."
- Too late
- Good luck
- Good Luck
- GOOD Luck
- GOOD LUCK
Vive la révolution!
No doubt, I felt the same in my fiery youth. There’s so much wrong but I now think there is no solution.
However if there is one, it’s in the hands of the youth. Not bloated middle-aged corpses like me…
You don’t usually see major news outlets like Newsweek covering protests being planned ahead of time instead of downplaying and barely mentioning that some protests happened after the fact. AND listing specific demands instead of vaguely just saying “anti-trump protests”. That’s an improvement, at least. Keep it going! Getting more media attention in an environment where most media has been cowed and terrified to criticize trump is moving in a positive direction. If you’ve been thinking about showing up, this is a good one to turn out for.
What to know?
Cheeto chimp is a child rapist.
Release the Trump/Epstein files
Everyone else got International Workers’ Day/May Day.
And what will these parades accomplish?
Showing solidarity. If you don’t think that’s important, then you have some reading to do on the history of protest movements.
More than you.
c/expertinsults
Yay another day of walking around doing nothing
I really don’t understand why I constantly see this sentiment on every post pertaining to protests. Rome wasn’t built in a day. How do you expect the masses to go directly to violent revolution when many of them don’t even recognize there’s a problem, and most of them have spent their whole lives in a system which hasn’t required any political participation at all? Drawing attention to the problems is how you get more people active.
Obviously, protests won’t do anything to directly influence the corrupt leaders in any meaningful or beneficial way. I don’t know anyone who actually hopes for that. But a handful of individuals resorting to political violence will be easily quashed by the fascists’ enforcers and then demonized or ignored by the fascist-friendly media, so the logical thing is to make the movement too big to fail or ignore. Drawing attention to the problems is how you get more people active.
People in ancient Rome protested through rioting. I’d support that.
I’m also getting pretty demoralized seeing that the only organized “resistance” is controlled by Boomer Neoliberals who aren’t interested in taking any action.
Literally any single one of these protests has the numbers to force immediate change. And they’re convinced we have no choice but to walk in circles and chant.
Gotta break stuff to achieve change.
Stuff like billionaires’ legs
