Protest actions like ‘Hands Off’ and ‘No Kings’ are sweeping across the US. But the media are barely paying attention
When hundreds of thousands of Americans gathered across the US on 5 April for the “Hands Off” events protesting Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s governmental wrecking ball, much of the news media seemed to yawn.
The next day, the New York Times put a photograph, but no story, on its print front page. The Wall Street Journal’s digital homepage had it as only the 20th-most-prominent story when I checked. Fox News was dismissive; I stopped counting after I scanned 40 articles on its homepage, though there was a video with this dismissive headline: “Liberals rally against President Trump.”
Wow, this seems very achievable
Sustained ans resistance are the keywords here. We’re talking general strike and occupying your state capitol’s (or DC’s if you can get there) city square for weeks, not a slightly angry parade like the ones we saw in April.
Not always true. The Berlin Wall fell so suddenly that no western intelligence agency predicted it. The rest of the Iron Curtain countries fell over the next six weeks, with fairly light defense by the governments.
Exactly. We need real direct action focused protests that actually resist what is happening, as in directly impede the effort of this administration in achieving its goals. Bring the gears of this nation to a halt until our demands are met.
Which means we need real organizing efforts, a federated group of organizations from across the country getting together, to discuss what those demands are and lay the ground work that will allow those resistance efforts to be sustainable.
Nearly 10 million would be required.
Easy. Those are rookie numbers.
Which is about 12 million Americans.