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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...)

#HandsOff #DayOfAction #MaineResists

ANONYMOUS Speaks on the Protests #April5 #anonymous #april5th

https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1jst1uc/comment/mlp0e68/

Protesters denounced Trump’s fascist attacks on workers, immigrants, social benefits, and democratic rights.

The political meaning of the April 5 mass protests against Trump - World Socialist Web Site

#April5 #April5th

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/04/07/fpwl-a07.html

#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

#April5th #Resistance #ResistColonialism #Racism #Remembrance #Resistance #ResistRacism #HandsOff #ReaderSupportedNews

#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."

New #DystopianReport where we cover the #April5th #HandsOff Protests, Trump's reaction to the missing (now confirmed deceased, sadly) soldiers in Lithuania, and Trump's tariffs and their impact on stock market futures.

We also explore the channel a bit, hence the missing suit.

https://youtu.be/4DnVweL8Gtg

Took me out 🤣🔥📸 #signs #50501movement #handsoff #peoplesmovement #april5th

Plus we need to see how elected Rs react to millions of people who protested on #April5th, plus the #Republican loss for #Wisconsin Supreme Court, plus the backslide of 2 R+30 #USHouse districts in #Florida to R+10... These people will only stay loyal to #Trump if he's a guaranteed winner.

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

I'm not crying, you're crying @50501mi.bsky.social #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.

#handsoff #sanFrancisco #handsoffprotest #trumpprotest #trump #musk #handsoffmedicare #handsoffmedicaid #usaid #april5th #saveAmerica #democracy #california #northerncalifornia

We won't go quietly into the night | We will not be afraid and we will NEVER give up. ✨🔵🔴⚪✨ #peoplesmovement #april5th #april19th @americanopposition.org @50501movement.bsky.social @indivisible.org @pocowidems.bsky.social @50501wi.bsky.social

#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

Protestors crossing a street, forming a long line. They are marching from an official looking building (the state capital). Many of them are holding signs, some upside down American flags.

A crowd of people gathered in front of an official-looking building (the Maine state house). They are a mix and old, young, and middle-aged, and many of them are holding up signs. Some of the signs read: "Eat Elon"; "Stop funding the ethnic cleaning in Palestine"; "Hands Off Our Rights - No DOGE - FASCISTS"; "No tax breaks for the rich"; "Robber Barons"; "Deport Oligarchs, Guarantee Efficiency"; "Take Your Plutocracy to Pluto" (with a Rocket going into space).

People at a rally holding up signs. In the background is the dome of the state capitol. Some of the signs read: "Hands Off!" and "Impeach Imperial Imbeciles".

‘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.'"

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