Boston Frequent is awash with folks protesting President Trump and billionaire DOGE director Elon Musk over a large assortment of coverage griefs. It’s simply one in every of such “Hands Off” demonstrations going down throughout the nation at the moment.
“Hands off Boston! Hands off Massachusetts! Hands off America!” a poster selling the march and rally that kicked off at 11 a.m. on the Frequent’s Parkman Bandstand learn. “We the People means everyone.”
A Herald photographer estimated that some 20,000 persons are attending.
Protesters are assailing the Trump administration’s strikes to fireside 1000’s of federal employees, shut Social Safety Administration subject places of work, successfully shutter total businesses, deport immigrants, cut back protections for transgender folks and minimize federal funding for well being applications.
Musk, a Trump adviser who owns Tesla, SpaceX and the social media platform X, has performed a key position in authorities downsizing as the pinnacle of the newly created Division of Authorities Effectivity. He says he’s saving taxpayers billions of {dollars}.
A promoter of the occasion wrote in a press launch that the occasion “aims to peacefully bring together the people of Mass. to march in support of our cities and communities being sanctuaries against tyranny.”
It’s one in every of greater than 1,000 occasions, in response to “Hands Off” promoters, going down throughout the nation on Saturday “in defiance of the Trump-Musk billionaire takeover and the Republican assault on our freedoms and our communities.”
Audio system at Boston’s occasion embody Sen. Ed Markey, American Federation of Academics state President Jessica Tang, ACLU state President Carol Rose and founding father of Trans Resistance Chastity Bowick. Well-known Boston-area punk band Dropkick Murphys was additionally slated to carry out on the occasion.
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