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Last night, activists from all around the country joined together for a "Hands Off" protest organizing call to rally the troops.
The moderator, Rahna Epting from MoveOn, claimed there were some 17,000 people on the zoom, all getting brainwashed with propaganda and outright lies, courtesy of the series of special guests who joined the zoom.
Epting got the party started by setting the tone, saying Trump is "flooding the zone with shit y'all, so much shit that that many in our country and certainly our media simply can't keep up. Their goal is to break us. It's to exhaust us. It's to make us give up because it's too much to take to make the majority of Americans who oppose this agenda feel helpless and hopeless."
Just a reminder, the majority of Americans voted for Trump and approve of his agenda.
Nonetheless Epting said, "Donald Trump has no mandate" and "nobody voted for Elon Musk" and "Donald Trump is no king" -- the same tired lines the Tesla Takedown crowd have been chanting for weeks now.
"Trump and Elon Musk are doing everything they can to consolidate power, but at the same time, they're driving their slash and burn agenda that's going to cut lifelines for millions of people attempting to cut Medicaid, Social Security, food stamps, firing tens of thousands of federal employees, threatening to get rid of the United States Postal Service," said Epting, hoping to whip up more fear among her listeners.
She said Trump is "trying to undo the progress of the last four years" -- something the majority of Americans are hoping for -- to undo the damage done by the corrupt Biden Administration.
The first speaker of the night, Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, represents Working Families Power -- a radical progressive group that fights for things like racial justice, gender equity, climate sustainability and fundraises through ActBlue, of money-laundering fame.
This group co-led the effort in Connecticut to "strengthen" the Trust Act which makes state a sanctuary for illegals. And the group is aligned with the Working Families Party -- the group that asked candidates whether they supported "non-citizen voting in their local elections" as part of the endorsement process in 2024.
Next up was Ezra Levin who co-founded Indivisible with his wife, Leah Greenberg.
"When institutions fail, it's up to the people to become the bulwark of democracy against this authoritarian creep by authoritarian creeps," said Levin who encouraged everyone to be "angelic troublemakers" and to make "good trouble."
He said there were around 1,200 protests already scheduled on the Hands Off website, including protests in other countries, such as Canada, the UK, and France.
And what protest organizing call would be complete without union representation?
Enter Deirdre Schifeling from the ACLU, which has already filed 25 lawsuits against the Trump Administration.
"Courts by themselves will not be enough," Schifeling said. "There are three buckets of legal attacks that I am going to cover that we've seen. First the Trump Administration is seizing authorities that they don't have. The second: attacks on our first amendment, our freedom of speech, our freedom to protest our freedom to dissent. And third: a host of attacks on our basic civil rights."
"We've sued and won restraining orders against Trump's shocking use of a made-up invasion to invoke a 20-year-old warpower to disappear people to a notorious prison in El Salvador," Schifeling said, gaslighting listeners.
"They're attacking judges. They're attacking lawyers. They're attacking our legal system," Schifeling continued, making sure everyone on the zoom was scared of life under the Trump Administration, even if that meant stretching the truth at times.
Talking about people trying to "scare us"... the next speaker was Randi Weingarten from the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), who is always a spectacle to watch.
"If you know anything about authoritarian governments and fascism and all of that, they want the silence, they want you to give up. They want people not to be able to ... critically think, problem solve, be together in community," Weingarten said with her protest poster sitting in the background. "They want people to be isolated and fearful."
Of course we can't help but be reminded of Weingarten's actions during covid that resulted in silencing covid critics, masking students for a common cold when no science justified that, and so on, just to keep people isolated and fearful.
She was followed by a peer from the National Education Association, Kim Anderson.
"Educators across the country are angry, and they're disappointed, and dumbfounded to be honest. And one thing I have come to learn about educators," Anderson explains. "Do not mess with their kids."
Anderson seems to think the kids belong to the teachers and the state -- not to their parents!
She's also pretty upset about Trump's Executive Order against racist DEI practices, and went off onto some interesting tangents, at one point suggesting that many kids only get fed in public schools, and that lunch on Friday is "the last meal they have" before going home to their parents. Really?
Anderson seems particularly excited to see "an authoritarian oligarchic regime" get toppled.
Alex Lawson from Social Security Works was lucky his eyes didn't pop out of his head during his comments, which he started off by saying, "look, it's no new thing that the billionaires are trying to steal all of the money, right?"
"So what they've done is they've given the richest man in the world, Elon Musk and his DOGE goons, a chainsaw, and they've carved right through the heart of the Social Security Administration," said Lawson, failing to mention the fraud uncovered by the DOGE team.
Like the person who "stole 400,000 social security numbers and personal information from the Social Security database, and was selling social security numbers and all of all the identification information in order for people to basically steal money from Social Security," according to Musk.
How is cutting fraud like that a bad thing?
The next activist, Alissa Tafti, from the Federal Unionist Network, was a disgruntled gal who told everyone the Trump Administration intentionally wants to traumatize federal workers.
Like by asking them what they accomplished at work over a given week?
She said the administration was lying when it said DOGE was about efficiency.
"It's dismantling and destroying the federal government," she argued. "You're doing it because you want to take away the government, um, and they want to do it because, so they can privatize, so that they can make money off of it, and the people who are going to suffer because of it are the American people."
Actually, it's about dismantling the deep state, the swamp -- whatever you want to call it -- and stopping the payments to slush funds that have been used to fund color revolutions like the nationwide Hands Off action, but we digress.
Last up was Jonah Minkoff-Zern from Public Citizen, the lobbying and advocacy organization created by left-wing activist and former Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader.
"Trump and Musk and their people are devastating our nation, our services, our freedoms, our democracy. They are incompetent and malicious," said Minkoff-Zern in his opening comments. "They're incompetent and it shows."
"We have power in this struggle. It's our voices and our mobilization that's going to impact them. That's going to push back, and ultimately, that's going to win. This isn't the first struggle that our nation has faced," said Minkoff-Zern. "We've had slavery. We've had a civil war. We've had lynching. We've had mass displacement. We have fought and segregation."
He really laid it on thick for the listeners as the closing speaker, saying, "our struggle today!"
The group is holding another call tonight, April 2nd, from 8pm - 9pm EST for "De-escalation Training"... to teach the, um, peaceful protestors how to remain peaceful.
Meanwhile, the local paper failed to mention the fact that the Communist Party is also promoting the April 5th nationwide "Hands Off" action.
Wonder why the commies were left off the list? Doesn't the local paper want readers to know they are potentially joining alongside members of the CT Communist Party on Saturday?
Or maybe they don't think communism is such a bad thing and are happy to join their comrades in the struggle against making government more efficient?
