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BigmanPigman

(52,829 posts)
Tue Apr 1, 2025, 09:51 PM Apr 1

Currently there are 1,000 HANDS OFF protests planned for April 5th.

https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/map/?date=2025-04-05T04%3A00%3A00.000Z&lat=47.177485255191115&lon=-74.6999577447121&zoom=1.0335942377157978

WOW!!!!!!!

It has grown into an enormous mass protest. 8 days ago there were 570, this is a BIG deal as far as activism goes. I've never seen a movement grow so quickly and I've been an activist since 1980. Americans are angry!

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Currently there are 1,000 HANDS OFF protests planned for April 5th. (Original Post) BigmanPigman Apr 1 OP
Thank You & All the HANDS OFF Protesters! Cha Apr 1 #1
We should be bdamomma Apr 1 #2
I'm planning to attend an event. Demovictory9 Apr 1 #3
I hope someone makes a sign BigmanPigman Apr 1 #6
I watched the Hands Off call Rver Apr 1 #4
At this rate there will probably be over 1,250 protests. BigmanPigman Apr 1 #7
Three planned in communities in my mostly rural & very red county Attilatheblond Apr 2 #15
This is amazing! I just found one near me! OrlandoDem2 Apr 1 #5
There's one near me! bamagal62 Apr 1 #8
There's one near everybody SCantiGOP Apr 1 #9
I will be there, too! stage left Apr 2 #14
I'll be wearing the red IMPEACH hat SCantiGOP Apr 2 #18
Great news! democrank Apr 1 #10
Great news! democrank Apr 1 #11
So what. Ollie Garkie Apr 2 #12
Well, aren't you a little ray of sunshine. Have you checked with Hands Off, Indivisible, or local Dem Party? Hekate Apr 2 #17
Surround the courthouse Capperdan Apr 2 #13
Out front of the Ventura County buildings! (Wait, or City Hall, it keeps changing. Double check.) Hekate Apr 2 #16
Four of us are going to our town's protest here is Wisconsin. Greybnk48 Apr 2 #19
We all need to go flamingdem Apr 2 #20
I haven't protested drmeow Apr 2 #21

BigmanPigman

(52,829 posts)
6. I hope someone makes a sign
Tue Apr 1, 2025, 10:08 PM
Apr 1

With Howard Beale/Perer Finch's photo from the film Network, shouting, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!". Everyone knows that famous line from the film. Maybe I'll start that chant when we start marching. I can be LOUD if I have to (I taught elementary school and am good at it).



A few years ago I made a 2-sided sign for a pro-abortion protest and on one side was a wire hanger (a real one) in a red circle with a slash through it and on the other side I wrote "No More Wire Hangers" the famous line from Mommie Dearest. A woman who runs the local Women's Museum asked if she could have my sign so I gave it to her and made a whole new one for myself.

Rver

(152 posts)
4. I watched the Hands Off call
Tue Apr 1, 2025, 09:59 PM
Apr 1

tonight. They said all 50 states, some in Canada and France will have rallies. I can't recall if there were more but I'm sure there will be by Saturday.

Attilatheblond

(5,610 posts)
15. Three planned in communities in my mostly rural & very red county
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 12:10 AM
Apr 2

Making our signs tomorrow and Thursday. Got the bullhorn out and ready to go.

SCantiGOP

(14,423 posts)
9. There's one near everybody
Tue Apr 1, 2025, 11:26 PM
Apr 1

Millions would be a good number.
I’ll be at the Columbia SC Statehouse, where 40,000 marched in 2000 to take down the rebel flag (which did come down).

SCantiGOP

(14,423 posts)
18. I'll be wearing the red IMPEACH hat
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 12:41 AM
Apr 2

I bought it in 2018, but couldn’t wear it during Biden’s term. It was maga red and everyone would have assumed that it was directed to Joe.
But I’ll have it on Saturday.

democrank

(11,381 posts)
10. Great news!
Tue Apr 1, 2025, 11:33 PM
Apr 1

I’ll be protesting in Montpelier, Vermont. We’re hoping for 6,000 people. There are several Vermont protests planned.

RESIST!

democrank

(11,381 posts)
11. Great news!
Tue Apr 1, 2025, 11:33 PM
Apr 1

I’ll be protesting in Montpelier, Vermont. We’re hoping for 6,000 people. There are several Vermont protests planned.

RESIST!

Ollie Garkie

(282 posts)
12. So what.
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 12:04 AM
Apr 2

These protests will average like 10 people outside of a couple in major cities. I am really sick and tired of being the LONE protestor in my galactically apathetic dumbed down city. Why aren't people getting fucking serioooouuussss!!!!!!

Hekate

(97,146 posts)
17. Well, aren't you a little ray of sunshine. Have you checked with Hands Off, Indivisible, or local Dem Party?
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 12:39 AM
Apr 2

Ten people? Well at least that’s the few, the proud, the dedicated core.
Are you willing to drive an hour if there’s nothing nearby? Are you willing to share a ride, carpool, etc?

Hekate

(97,146 posts)
16. Out front of the Ventura County buildings! (Wait, or City Hall, it keeps changing. Double check.)
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 12:31 AM
Apr 2

Greybnk48

(10,512 posts)
19. Four of us are going to our town's protest here is Wisconsin.
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 01:00 AM
Apr 2

Now that we took the Supreme Court and we can breathe easier here, we're just going to work on our Hand's Off signs, and hopefully sleep a tiny bit easier this week. It's been super stressful this past three weeks.

Jill Underly also won for State Superintendent of Education which was also vitally important for our future here in Wisconsin. She was running against an unqualified anti-public schools crusader who wants vouchers and charter schools and parental control over curriculum, among other things.

flamingdem

(40,282 posts)
20. We all need to go
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 01:44 AM
Apr 2

The beginning of a mass movement. Fingers crossed for some frickin' media coverage!

drmeow

(5,521 posts)
21. I haven't protested
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 05:13 PM
Apr 2

since the 2003 Invasion of Iraq - and I plan to attend an event on Saturday.

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