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#Demonstrators across 50 states look to unify a disparate opposition to #Trump and his sweeping agenda

by BILL BARROW, CHARLOTTE KRAMON and NADIA LATHAN
March 4, 2025

ATLANTA (AP) — "As Donald Trump prepared Tuesday to address a joint session of Congress, #protest groups gathered at parks, statehouses and other public grounds across the country to assail his presidency as #dangerous and #UnAmerican.

"The rallies and marches — set in motion by the fledgling #50501Movement, a volunteer-driven group organized in the weeks after Trump’s inauguration — mark the latest attempt at national resistance to the hardened support of Trump’s '#MakeAmericaGreatAgain' base and the success it has had in reshaping the Republican Party in the president’s populist image.

"Yet some early scenes Tuesday vividly demonstrated the difficulty Democrats, progressives and everyday citizens face in marshaling a tangible response to Trump and the swift, sweeping actions of his second administration. Protesters have so many things to push back against — from tariffs to Trump’s reset on the war in Ukraine to the aggressive and sometimes legally dubious actions of the Department of Government Efficiency and its leader, billionaire #Elon Musk, that it’s hard to know what to focus on." [THIS IS INTENTIONAL! #DivideAndConquer!]

apnews.com/article/donald-trum
#Resist #ResistFascism #Project2025 #Protests #ResistDOGE #BadDOGE #ChristoFascists #CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol

AP News · Demonstrators across 50 states look to unify opposition to TrumpBy Bill Barrow
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The War on #Masks Has Taken on a New Meaning

This time, the masks have nothing to do with #COVID19.

By Henry Grabar
Feb 05, 20254:57 PM

"Last month, state legislators in New York introduced a bill that would create a new crime: 'masked harassment.'

"That, the law explains, is when you wear a mask 'for the primary purpose of menacing or threatening violence against another person' or 'placing another person or group of persons in reasonable fear for their physical safety.'

"If that seems like a bit of a niche offense—threatening violence is already a crime, after all—it’s because the language has been watered down to attract political support. It’s a sign of New York Democrats’ cautious new approach over masks in public life, and a retreat from last spring, when anti-Israel protests, on top of a widespread urban crime panic, pushed leaders from New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to consider mask bans.

"In its original form, the New York bill would have banned masks at public assemblies entirely. But the outcry from #DisabilityRights advocates, #CriminalJustice reformers, #HealthCareWorkers, and #CivilLiberties groups was swift, and so New York wound up with this bill on 'masked harassment' instead.

"Elsewhere, the pandemic-era leniency on masking in public is over. #NorthCarolina Republicans overrode a gubernatorial veto last summer to once again #BanPublicFaceCoverings, except to stop the spread of contagious diseases. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost dusted off an old law to threaten #StudentProtesters with #felonies. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has asked the state’s Senate to consider a bill to #unmask #protesters this year.

"For Republicans, it’s a chance to kill two birds with one stone. They can strike back against the perceived overreach of pandemic-era #HealthDirectives and make it easier to arrest #demonstrators at the same time.

"In #Ohio and North Carolina, the original statutes were written in the 1950s to stop demonstrations by the #KuKluxKlan, but had been ignored or suspended during the #pandemic and the #GeorgeFloydProtests. Many lawmakers have cited the recent demonstrations in defense of #Gaza as a reason to crack down again. Defending the proposed mask ban in New York, Anti-Defamation League [#ADL] president Jonathan Greenblatt said the demonstrators were using '#KKK tactics' to intimidate Jewish New Yorkers.

"That instinct was bolstered by the sense among many city residents and elected leaders that widespread masking was a factor behind the pandemic-era crime spike. That led to #Philadelphia banning #SkiMasks in parks, on trains, and in public buildings. A more recent, high-profile example came in December with the Midtown Manhattan killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO #BrianThompson by a #MaskedAssassin, which prompted New York Mayor Eric Adams to call for cab drivers and business owners to ask customers to remove their masks. The new New York bill has won over the liberal Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who endorsed the 'tailored' approach. As the police say: #NoFaceNoCase.

"For what it’s worth, there are too many confounding variables and too little data to be sure if mask-wearing is associated with crime, said Ernesto Lopez at the Council for Criminal Justice, which collects crime reporting statistics from various cities. 'From a theoretical statement it makes sense that could occur, but it has not been demonstrated that’s the case,' he told me.

"But if all that weighed in favor of more mask bans, there was also widespread resistance. Disability advocates mobilized to defend the right to mask; North Carolina had to write a medical exemption into their bill at the insistence of a GOP House member. #PoliceReformers observed that #MaskBans have often been used for pretextual #policing and racial profiling against #BlackAmericans. (#AtlantaGeorgia tabled a mask ban for that reason.)

"What looms largest, as the second Trump administration begins, is the role of protest. As Semafor’s Dave Weigel has noted, masks have become a badge of left-wing protest culture. That’s in part an extension of politicized COVID-era concerns about health and civility, but at this point it is mostly a tactic to preserve anonymity in an era of #FacialRecognition, streaming video, and #doxing. Last year, the anonymous #ProIsrael website the #CanaryMission posted photographs of hundreds of students and faculty at campus protests and posted their names and photos online, labeling some as supporters of terrorism.

"'The concern takes on new urgency as Donald Trump pledges to revoke the visas of pro-Palestine protesters, and the Trump-Musk GOP embraces the naming and shaming of otherwise private citizens. A conservative group called the American Accountability Foundation has begun circulating lists of federal workers, many of them Black, who should be
'targets' for their alleged involvement in #DEI initiatives at work.

"Clearly, the masked protest does not always sit well with an older generation, many of whom cut their teeth in the protests of the pre-internet age. As Georgetown professor Michael Kazin told the New York Times last year: 'I do think if you are going to demonstrate, and it’s something you feel deeply about, you should be willing to stand up and be counted.'"

Source:
slate.com/business/2025/02/mas
#Fascism #AuthoritarianRule #BigBrother #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou #SurveillanceState #SilencingDissent

Slate · There Couldn’t Be a Worse Time for a Mask BanBy Henry Grabar
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‘We are not Russia’ — Thousands protest Fico’s pro-Kremlin agenda in Bratislava

Approximately 4,000 people assembled in Bratislava to protest #Fico's #Kremlin-friendly stance

#Demonstrators waved the flags of Slovakia and the European Union, chanting “We are not Russia.”

Protesters played the EU anthem and carried posters labeled “We are Europe.”

"Fico, go to Moscow, leave #Slovakia in peace," one banner reportedly read.

kyivindependent.com/we-are-not

The Kyiv Independent · 'We are not Russia' — Thousands protest Fico's pro-Kremlin agenda in BratislavaBy Abbey Fenbert
#RussianAggression#HybridWar#EU
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#InContempt #47: #Trump Administration Gears Up to Attack #AntiWar Movement

December 1, 2024

"Judging from what has been pushed thus far, there are several legal measures most likely to be used once Trump returns to Washington. One would be deporting foreign college students in the U.S. on a visa after they’re found to have openly advocated for #Hamas or another U.S.-designated terror group, or after they participated in an unauthorized campus protest and were suspended, expelled or jailed.

Another measure would be to pursue federal prosecutions of #demonstrators who block synagogue entrances or disrupt Jewish speakers at events. A third approach is to charge #protest leaders and nonprofits that aid in fundraising for protest groups with failing to register with the U.S. Justice Department as an 'agent of a foreign principal.' And a fourth avenue is to open investigations into protest leaders who are in direct contact with U.S.-designated terror groups while advocating on their behalf.

"…#AmericaFirstLegal has in the past year filed four lawsuits that provide a glimpse into how the Trump administration could differ from its predecessor. America First Legal alleges in the suits that the State Department, the Justice Department, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Education have protected pro-Hamas extremists.

"In court papers and in letters to several federal oversight officials, America First Legal has also said it believes the Justice Department should have forced several leaders of pro-Palestinian groups to report themselves under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, known as #FARA, which requires individuals acting as 'an agent of a foreign principal' to register themselves."

Read more:
itsgoingdown.org/in-contempt-4
#SilencingDissent #Authoritarianism #USPol #FreePalestine #HR9495 #Project2025 #ProjectEsther #ItsGoingDown

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It's Going Down · In Contempt #47: Trump Administration Gears Up to Attack Anti-War MovementIn this column, we present our monthly roundup of political prisoner, prison rebel, and repression news, happenings, announcements, action and analysis. Packed in as always are updates, fundraisers, and birthdays. There’s a lot happening, so let’s dive right in! On the Future of this Column The US/online anarchist media space is going through a process...
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“On Thin Ice”: Western Nations Crack Down on #ClimateActivists with Arrests & Jail Terms

Story by #DemocracyNow
September 12, 2024

"As the #ClimateCrisis continues to accelerate, #wealthy governments in the West are clamping down on #ClimateProtest. According to a new report from #ClimateRightsInternational, #demonstrators around the world are being arrested, charged, prosecuted and silenced, simply for using their rights to free expression. One of those prosecuted is activist #JoannaSmith, who last year applied washable school finger paint on the exterior glass case enclosing Edgar Degas’s renowned wax sculpture, Little Dancer, at the National Gallery of Art to draw attention to the urgency of the climate crisis. She was charged and later sentenced to two months in federal prison for her #CivilDisobedience. We speak to Smith just a week after her release, and to #LindaLakhdir, the legal director of Climate Rights International. 'Countries who have held themselves up as beacons of rule of law are essentially repressing peaceful protest,' says Lakhdir. Smith says the nonviolent action she took was intended to highlight the disparity between a sculpture of a child protected from the elements with a strong plexiglass case and the billions of children around the world left unsafe and vulnerable by #ClimateChange's effects. 'The crisis is here now, it’s unfolding in front of us, and our governments are failing us,' she explains.

Read more:
democracynow.org/2024/9/12/cli

#WaterDefenders
#ClimateDefenders
#EnvironmentalActivists
#SilencingDissent #SLAPPs #ClimateActivists #CorporateColonialism
#EarthDefenders #CriminalizingDissent #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #BiodiversityNecessityDefense
#EarthDefenders
#SLAPPs #Fascism #CivilDisobedience
#Activism #ClimateStrike
#ClimateActivists
#HumanRights #Corporatocracy
#Article20 #2023PublicOrderAct
#ClimateNecessityDefense

Democracy Now! · “On Thin Ice”: Western Nations Crack Down on Climate Activists with Arrests & Jail TermsBy Democracy Now!
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Thousands join ‘#RestoreNatureNow’ march

By Harry Fawcett
22 Jun 2024

"Tens of thousands of #demonstrators have been marching through #London, joining more than 350 charities, businesses and #DirectAction groups on the Restore Nature Now march.

"The demonstrators appealed to politicians to make action on #conservation and the #climate a priority."

channel4.com/news/thousands-jo

Channel 4 News · Thousands join ‘Restore Nature Now’ marchThe demonstrators appealed to politicians to make action on conservation and the climate a priority.
#Biodiversity#Nature#UKPolitics
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"‘Not like other Passovers’: hundreds of Jewish demonstrators arrested after New York protest seder" -
"Hundreds of #Jewish anti-war #demonstrators have been arrested during a #Passover seder that doubled as a protest in New York, as they shut down a major thoroughfare to pray for a ceasefire and urge the Senate majority leader, Chuck #Schumer, to end #US military aid to #israel

... "One protester, a 31-year-old Jewish woman who asked not to be named for security reasons, said: “Passover is about liberation. In our family Palestinians have always been part of our celebration and mourning. The call for liberation is more important now than ever … as Americans the billions of our tax dollars in the Israeli military bill is outrageous and horrifying.”

"The 300 or so arrests took place on Tuesday night at Grand Army Plaza, on the doorstep of Schumer’s #Brooklyn residence, where thousands of mostly Jewish New Yorkers gathered for the seder, a ritual that marked the second night of the holiday celebrated as a festival of freedom by Jews worldwide."

theguardian.com/world/2024/apr

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #War #Ceasefire #US #USPolitics #NewYork #NewYorkCity #NYC #Protest #Protests #Antiwar #Genocide @pvonhellermannn @LALegault @ScepticalScot1 @gharbeia

The Guardian · ‘Not like other Passovers’: hundreds of Jewish demonstrators arrested after New York protest sederBy Nina Lakhani
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The right to #protest is under threat in #Britain, undermining a pillar of democracy

By JILL LAWLESS
December 26, 2023

LONDON (AP) — "For holding a sign outside a courthouse reminding jurors of their right to acquit defendants, a retiree faces up to two years in prison. For hanging a banner reading '#JustStopOil' off a bridge, an engineer got a three-year prison sentence. Just for walking slowly down the street, scores of people have been arrested.

"They are among hundreds of #environmental activists arrested for peaceful demonstrations in the U.K., where tough new laws restrict the right to protest.

"The Conservative government says the laws prevent extremist activists from hurting the economy and disrupting daily life. Critics say #CivilRights are being eroded without enough scrutiny from lawmakers or protection by the courts. They say the sweeping arrests of peaceful #demonstrators, along with government officials labeling #EnvironmentalActivists #extremists, mark a worrying departure for a liberal democracy.

"'Legitimate protest is part of what makes any country a safe and civilized place to live',' said Jonathon Porritt, an #ecologist and former director of #FriendsOfTheEarth, who joined a vigil outside London’s Central Criminal Court to protest the treatment of demonstrators.

"'The government has made its intent very clear, which is basically to suppress what is legitimate, lawful protest and to use every conceivable mechanism at their disposal to do that.'"

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apnews.com/article/britain-dem

AP News · People's right to protest is under threat in BritainBy JILL LAWLESS
#DigitalFreeSpeech#DirectAction#Fascism
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Hundreds of students in Melbourne walked out of classrooms to show support for Palestine on Thursday, December 7. Students gathered at Flinders Street Station, then marched through the streets. RESTRICTIONS#news #rally #facebook #oceania #google #instagram #youtube #gaza #twitter #demonstration #protesters #ceasefire #israel #solidarity #demonstrators #hamás #youths #anti-war #ig #pro-palestine #fb #yahoo #palestinianflags #videoelephant
Australia: Hundreds Join School Strike For Palestine In Melbourne

The Cheyenne PostAustralia: Hundreds Join School Strike For Palestine In MelbourneHundreds of students in Melbourne walked out of classrooms to show support for Palestine on Thursday, December 7. Students gathered at Flinders Street Station, then marched through the streets. RESTRICTIONS
#antiwar#propalestine
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Condemned by #Republican rivals & others last wk for calling #Hezbollah militants “very smart,” #Trump responded Mon by proposing harsher restrictions on #immigration based on #ideology, targeting #Hamas sympathizers & critics of #Israel.

…he (also) said he would revoke #StudentVisas, #deport anti-Israel #demonstrators …& pledged to expand his #ban on people from #Muslim-majority countries & refuse #refugees.

#immigration #discrimination #law #incitement
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The Washington Post · Trump, under fire for Israel comments, proposes fresh crackdown on Muslim immigrantsBy Isaac Arnsdorf
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