So, someone commented on hubby's BlueSky post that the #April19th #PortlandME rally was BIGGER than the #April5th rally (it was getting bigger as we were leaving at a little after 1pm...)
So, someone commented on hubby's BlueSky post that the #April19th #PortlandME rally was BIGGER than the #April5th rally (it was getting bigger as we were leaving at a little after 1pm...)
#WindowRock: Live on Saturday: #Dine' #MassMobilization #Protest in #NavajoNation Capitol
via #CensoredNews
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/04/live-now-window-rock-dine-mass.html
Watch recorded videos
https://www.facebook.com/marley.shebala
#ChokecherryMassacre Remembrance March by #DinéBikeyah Chapter of the #AmericanIndianMovement [#AIM]
Saturday, April 5, 2025, #FarmingtonNewMexico.
Remembering three Navajo men #HermanBenally of Kirtland, #JohnEarlHarvey of Fruitland, and #DavidIgnacio of Blanco who were beaten and killed in April 1974 by three Farmington High School students.
Signs read: "#ScienceIsReal. #BlackAndBrownLivesMatter. #NoHumanBeingIsIllegal. #LoveIsLove. #WomensRightsAreHumanRights. #KindnessIsEverything. #StopArrestingMyBrothersAndSisters."
Read more / photographs:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/04/chokecherry-massacre-remembrance-march.html
#Diné #Racism #Remembrance #Resistance #ResistRacism #ResistColonialism #April5th
HANDS OFF DEMOCRACY!
Yesterday, blustery rainy day in Vermont, around 45 residents at The Residence at Otter Creek joined the HANDS OFF!
Thank you @erin_hurlburt for doing this!!!!
#handsoff #50501movement #handsoff #peoplesmovement #april5th
Hands-off, San Francisco, April 5, 2025. City Hall, Civic Center. Some signs, etc. at the rally. "When we fight we win." Do not give up. We have to put these protests front and center. Make our objections heard--to everything this administration and the Republicans are doing to destroy America.
#April5th #HandsOffProtest
"In coordinated demonstrations that organizers said took place across all 50 states, the "Hands Off!" protest accused Trump and his administration of championing policies that benefit the rich while making life harder for everyone else."
We went to the anti-Trump protests. Here's what surprised us the most.
"Coordinated nationwide protests against the Trump administration drew large crowds. Business Insider was there."
https://www.businessinsider.com/anti-trump-protests-hands-off-2025-4
Some scenes from the #AugustaME #HandsOff rally (not my images -- from the Kennebec Journal)
by Hannah Kaufman, Kennebec Journal
AUGUSTA — "By about 2:20 p.m., the protest in Augusta had effectively ended, but for a smaller group, the march continued, with some making their third and fourth laps around the block.
Organizers had intended the march to take place on the sidewalk, but the width of Capitol Street was filled with a throng of protesters shortly before 2 p.m.
"Vivian Myers-Jones, a protester from New Brunswick, Canada, said an organizer estimated 3,000 people were at the protest during its peak.
"Several students from Bates College in Lewiston said they came to Augusta to protest in support of #Palestine. One student, Dylan, said action on the Israel-Hamas war is overdue.
"'We’ve been seeing a genocide unfolding before our eyes for years now, and it’s overdue that people are doing something,' he said. 'We’ve been trying to make change, and I think some people are being shocked into action now, which is good to see.'
"Another student, Robert, said it’s important to exercise the right to protest.
'We’re fighting to continue fighting — about Palestine, about everything that’s going on in this country,' he said.
It’s important that we come together now.'"
Original article:
https://www.pressherald.com/2025/04/05/live-updates-mainers-rally-throughout-the-state-to-protest-trump-policies/
Archived version:
https://archive.md/k03Q5#selection-2017.0-2018.1
#MaineResists #HandsOff2025 #April5th #BadDOGE #EatElon #FreePalestine #HandsOffOurRights #NoDOGE #FASCISTS #NoTaxBreaksForTheRich #RobberBarons #DeportOligarchs #ImpeachImperialImbeciles
‘Listen to the people’: Thousands demonstrate across #Maine for national day of action against #Trump
#Mainers rallied in over 20 towns against mass firings and cuts to federal programs
By: Lauren McCauley - April 5, 2025
"'The power of the people is more important and stronger than the people in power.'
"That was what U.S. Sen. Angus King told the thousands of people who gathered on Congress Street in Portland on Saturday to protest the administration of President Donald Trump. [#UselessSusanCollins wasn't there. Nothing new...]
"According to organizers, 3,000 people attended the #PortlandME rally, which was just one of more than 20 events held across Maine as part of national '#HandsOff!' actions to demonstrate widespread opposition to the gutting of the federal government spearheaded by billionaire advisor #ElonMusk.
"The town mall in #BrunswickME, where over 500 people rallied, was a sea of homemade signs. Maine Senate President Mattie Daughtry, who represents the district, was among the crowd and noted it was one of the few times in her life she’s seen 'this many people gathered for something like this.'
"The message, she said, is 'to listen to the people.'
"'A lot of the signs that I saw were about ‘Hands off our Social Security,’ ‘Hands off our libraries,’ ‘Hands off our health care,’ I think what we’re saying is, you can’t completely unravel the fabric of our society without people noticing.'"
Read more (includes photo gallery):
https://mainemorningstar.com/2025/04/05/listen-to-the-people-thousands-demonstrate-across-maine-for-national-day-of-action-against-trump/
#MaineResists #HandsOff2025 #April5th #BadDOGE #ResistFascism
Thousands gather in #BangorME for "#HandsOff!" rally
by Cali Warren Apr 5, 2025
BANGOR -- "On Saturday, Bangor's waterfront was packed with thousands participating in an initiative called "Hands Off" - one of several protests happening all over the state and nation.
"'Hands off, it's a national mass mobilization so all over the world, all over the country, people are taking protests to the streets,' said organizer Amanda Roy.
"Protesters advocated against cuts to healthcare and government offices, and rallied for #equality and rights for #PeopleOfColor, #immigrants and the #LGBTQ+ community.
"You name it, we're facing critical cuts, veterans and their benefits, federal employees, everything. This isn't the America that I want to live in," Roy stated.
"'I think a lot of people are here because, hands off of our #SocialSecurity, hands off of our #Medicaid, hands off our #healthcare, hands off our #HumanRights, our #CivilRights,' explained rally volunteer Deborah Lee.
"Elected officials say it's important to hear Mainer's voices at these large-scale protests.
"'We don't have billions or millions here in Maine, we're just regular Mainers speaking up, but we the people do have the power to make change and to stand up for our communities and to help each other,' explained Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, who attended the rally as a guest speaker.
"'What a time to be alive, we are all living in history...I honestly would not choose to be in another time than this one right here. I feel so incredibly moved to just exist right now, in this moment where I see such energy, such #resistance, such camaraderie,' said Bangor City Council Member Joseph Leonard."
Source:
https://www.foxbangor.com/news/local/thousands-gather-in-bangor-for-hands-off-rally/article_f4765c96-fba7-48aa-8340-7fdff545e200.html
#MaineResists #HandsOff2025 #April5th #BadDOGE #ResistFascism
Image via @witchofagnesionx.bsky.social -- #TheTurdReich! From the #PortlandME #HandsOff rally!
I love this sign at the #SouthParisME rally! #HandsOff our #Libraries! (Not my photo -- from the Lewiston Sun Journal.)
#HandsOffOurLibraries #LibrariesRule! #OxfordHillsME #MaineResists #HandsOff2025 #April5th #BadDOGE
Images from #AuburnME #HandsOff rally! (Not my images, from the Portland Press Herald.)
#LewistonME #MaineResists #HandsOff2025 #April5th #BadDOGE
More images from the #PortlandME #HandsOff rally at Monument Square (not my images, from the Portland Press Herald). The statue atop the monument is "Our Lady of Victories".
#MaineResists #HandsOff2025 #April5th #BadDOGE
'#HandsOff' rally in #PortsmouthNH: Thousands slam #Trump and his policies
by Ian Lenahan
Portsmouth Herald
Updated 3:19 p.m. ET April 5, 2025
PORTSMOUTH — "Large crowds of protesters gathered Saturday at "Hands Off" rallies in Seacoast New Hampshire and Maine and across the nation, speaking out against President Donald Trump and his administration's actions.
"Large crowds in downtown Portsmouth lined both sides of the length of Congress Street, spilling into side streets, exceeding expectations for city police.
Protesters have focused on issues like Trump's tariffs, Trump's actions to end protections for immigrants and transgender people, the dismantling of the Department of Education, cuts to the Veterans Administration, and layoffs of thousands of federal workers.
"Protesters in Portsmouth called for the Department of Government Efficiency to be dismantled, for the federal government to protect #teachers, public #school staff, #Abortionrights, #FederalWorkers, #WomensRights and #LGBTQ+ rights, labeled Trump “#orangeMussolini,” and called for preserving #Medicaid, #Medicare and #SocialSecurity.
“Hands off the Constitution,” one sign said. “Democracy is not for sale!”
Portsmouth crowd grows to thousands
Read more, view photos:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/local/2025/04/05/hands-off-rally-portsmouth-nh-trump-protest/82762300007/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/VtjVe
#NewHampshireResists #HandsOff2025 #April5th #BadDOGE #ResistFascism #USPol
#ConcordNH #HandsOff rally!
Crowds gather in Concord, other New Hampshire communities for 'Hands Off!' rallies
https://www.wmur.com/article/hands-off-rallies-new-hampshire-4525/64395338
#NewHampshireResists #HandsOff2025 #April5th #BadDOGE #ResistFascism
It seems I wasn't the only one using nazi imagery on a sign. #SouthPortlandME #HandsOff #HandsOff2025 #MaineResists #HandsOff2025 #April5th #BadDOGE #ResistFascism