If you are using the #HandsOff hashtag to try to raise money for politicians, you don’t get it, and I have blocked you.
We don’t have time to wait for mid-term elections. If we don’t fix things now, we won’t have midterm elections. I have donated plenty to democratic politicians in the past, and even today, they continue to play stupid political games in the House and Senate.
@ienvision @RealJournalism I have to point out...the younger folks have been raising their voices. The older folks keep launching cops and ICE and "no, no, don't protest like that about THAT" rhetoric at them. My local organizers seem baffled that they can't auto-draw younger folks in. #HandsOff was designed to attract and activate exactly those who showed up. If the movement wants more demographics involved, it must make its own internal effort to become more inclusive and more collaborative.
Naval-gazing thread, may delete later.
I did #Handsoff and I'm glad I did. Practice corporeal politics. Act like the free person you still are. I'm super-pleased about the national breadth of of the protests, and that people found it heartening. Giving people courage.
And yet, I had mixed feelings, which I decided were best kept to myself. In the crowd I kept seeing signs I remembered from the first administration. There was that lovely "Resist" banner Greenpeace raised ... 1/?
“So many people turning out in so many, so many red states.”
Thank you to The Rachel Maddow Show for their comprehensive coverage of Saturday’s nationwide #handsoff mobilizations.
“We had literally 5-7 times as many people show up as RSVPs in most of the places where we held marches. What we were hearing throughout the day was the biggest problem that organizers of these marches were having around the country was that too many people were showing up.” - Leah on #handsoff
'Not what I voted for': #Trump voter attending anti-Trump protest talks to MSNBC reporter https://www.rawstory.com/trump-voter-at-anti-trump-protest/ #HandsOff
Drink Special @ Hubba Hubba: #HandsOff -- Bulleit rye, honey, lemon
Bin dabei, mich weitestgehend aus den Klauen der US-Tech-Giganten zu befreien. 1. bin ich überrascht, wie viele wirklich gute Alternativen es dazu gibt und 2. verwundert es mich täglich, wie gleichgültig die meisten auf schwindende Privatsphäre, wachsende Monopolisierung und die damit verbundene Einflussnahme reagieren.
#unplugtrump #handsoff #meinungsfreiheit
Today at FoxNews.ar:
"#HandsOff demonstrations amassed 150k people in USA". As with any enternewsment channel, you can't know if it's malice or incompetence.
A friend took this picture and it made me lol.
EDIT: This is Shannon Downey. Her glorious website is https://www.badasscrossstitch.com/
Republican's "beautiful tariffs" empty out your retirement savings, damage our economy & transfer of wealth to his cronies.
Hands Off! Protests Across the Country: "This is not a moment, it’s the movement"
#HandsOff #protests #TheContrarian #uspol
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/hands-off-protests-across-the-country
"insurrectionary sentences... drawn from nature. One goes "They tried to bury us, but they didn't know we were seeds." Seeds germinate underground, and they send up their shoots in the springtime. The other sentence goes, "They can cut down the flowers but they can't stop the spring." Be seeds, be the spring. Be the insurrection. Be civil society. Be what happens."
- Rebecca Solnit
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/millions-stood-up-april-5-hands-off-day-of-action/
"There are 1280 US #protests listed for today and many more not on the list. THAT is BIG. 686 were counted in the #US for the January 21, 2017, Women's March, in which 1% of the country marched, and that was until today the biggest single day of protest in this country's #history."
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/millions-stood-up-april-5-hands-off-day-of-action/
"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/