"I scoured the news for reports on the more than one thousand other rallies. Of course people would show up in the big cities & the bluest places, but what really exhilarated me was to see the turnout in reddest America--#Utah, #Nebraska, #Missouri, #Indiana, #Iowa, #Idaho--and small communities not known for their #protests...
some early estimates say well over three million people showed up."
- Rebecca Solnit
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/millions-stood-up-april-5-hands-off-day-of-action/
I was the closing speaker at the ebullient San Francisco Hands Off rally, and when I got home later I scoured the news for reports on the more than one thousand other rallies. Of course people would show up in the big cities and the bluest places, but what really
Politicians aren’t nearly outraged enough at the Trump regime disappearing these students of color. I’m not qwhite sure why?? But I bet we’d hear a very different tune if these students had the complexion for protection.
If you’re willing to sit silent when Black & brown people are denied due process and abducted by a fascist regime, then don’t be surprised when you’re the next victim of that same regime. That’s how fascism has always advanced—through complicit silence.
Proud of my town's participation in "Hands Off!"
1000 people is about 4.3% of the population.
In dreary all-day rain.
#HandsOff #protest #BlueWave #resist #DEI #SocialSecurity #NH #nonviolence #democracy
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George Takei 
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