Bostonians are anticipated to hitch tons of of protests throughout the nation in opposition to President Donald Trump and Elon Musk Saturday on Boston Widespread, in what organizers say would be the “largest mobilization since the president took office.”
“On April 5, national and local organizations are coming together across the country for Hands Off!, a peaceful mass activation in defiance of the Trump-Musk billionaire takeover and the Republican assault on our freedoms and our communities,” Palms Off Boston organizers wrote in an advisory. “This is an all-in moment for the pro-worker movement, pro-constitutional rule of law order, and pro-democracy.”
Boston’s Palms Off protest will start with a march from the Parkman Bandstand on the Widespread to Metropolis Corridor Plaza, the place a rally and talking program will happen.
The Palms Off! web site lists over 1,000 occasions throughout the nation from Washington D.C., to Alaska, to Texas. Within the Better Boston space, Peabody, Newton, Framingham, Wellesley, Natick and extra communities have protests deliberate.
The rally is organized by teams together with the Indivisible Mass Coalition, Mass 50501, Swing Blue Alliance, and UU Mass Motion, and others.
Listed audio system embody Sen. Ed Markey, founding father of Trans Resistance Chastity Bowick, ACLU Massachusetts President Carol Rose, and AFT Massachusetts President Jessica Tang, with “more speakers” to be introduced forward of the occasion.
The Boston band the Dropkick Murphys may even attend, organizers stated.
Organizers cited Boston’s function as a “sanctuary against tyranny” and in defending “our neighbors, no matter where they were born or their race or gender or sexuality.”
“On April 5, We the People of Massachusetts will come together to tell the corrupt, cruel, chaotic tyrants in DC: Hands Off Boston!” the advisory stated. “Hands Off Massachusetts! Because We the People means everyone, and Massachusetts is fighting back.”
