HANDS OFF DEMOCRACY!
Yesterday, blustery rainy day in Vermont, around 45 residents at The Residence at Otter Creek joined the HANDS OFF!
Thank you @erin_hurlburt for doing this!!!!
#handsoff #50501movement #handsoff #peoplesmovement #april5th
HANDS OFF DEMOCRACY!
Yesterday, blustery rainy day in Vermont, around 45 residents at The Residence at Otter Creek joined the HANDS OFF!
Thank you @erin_hurlburt for doing this!!!!
#handsoff #50501movement #handsoff #peoplesmovement #april5th
#April5th #HandsOffProtest
"In coordinated demonstrations that organizers said took place across all 50 states, the "Hands Off!" protest accused Trump and his administration of championing policies that benefit the rich while making life harder for everyone else."
We went to the anti-Trump protests. Here's what surprised us the most.
"Coordinated nationwide protests against the Trump administration drew large crowds. Business Insider was there."
https://www.businessinsider.com/anti-trump-protests-hands-off-2025-4
Some scenes from the #AugustaME #HandsOff rally (not my images -- from the Kennebec Journal)
by Hannah Kaufman, Kennebec Journal
AUGUSTA — "By about 2:20 p.m., the protest in Augusta had effectively ended, but for a smaller group, the march continued, with some making their third and fourth laps around the block.
Organizers had intended the march to take place on the sidewalk, but the width of Capitol Street was filled with a throng of protesters shortly before 2 p.m.
"Vivian Myers-Jones, a protester from New Brunswick, Canada, said an organizer estimated 3,000 people were at the protest during its peak.
"Several students from Bates College in Lewiston said they came to Augusta to protest in support of #Palestine. One student, Dylan, said action on the Israel-Hamas war is overdue.
"'We’ve been seeing a genocide unfolding before our eyes for years now, and it’s overdue that people are doing something,' he said. 'We’ve been trying to make change, and I think some people are being shocked into action now, which is good to see.'
"Another student, Robert, said it’s important to exercise the right to protest.
'We’re fighting to continue fighting — about Palestine, about everything that’s going on in this country,' he said.
It’s important that we come together now.'"
Original article:
https://www.pressherald.com/2025/04/05/live-updates-mainers-rally-throughout-the-state-to-protest-trump-policies/
Archived version:
https://archive.md/k03Q5#selection-2017.0-2018.1
#MaineResists #HandsOff2025 #April5th #BadDOGE #EatElon #FreePalestine #HandsOffOurRights #NoDOGE #FASCISTS #NoTaxBreaksForTheRich #RobberBarons #DeportOligarchs #ImpeachImperialImbeciles
I love this sign at the #SouthParisME rally! #HandsOff our #Libraries! (Not my photo -- from the Lewiston Sun Journal.)
#HandsOffOurLibraries #LibrariesRule! #OxfordHillsME #MaineResists #HandsOff2025 #April5th #BadDOGE
Images from #AuburnME #HandsOff rally! (Not my images, from the Portland Press Herald.)
#LewistonME #MaineResists #HandsOff2025 #April5th #BadDOGE
More images from the #PortlandME #HandsOff rally at Monument Square (not my images, from the Portland Press Herald). The statue atop the monument is "Our Lady of Victories".
#MaineResists #HandsOff2025 #April5th #BadDOGE
'#HandsOff' rally in #PortsmouthNH: Thousands slam #Trump and his policies
by Ian Lenahan
Portsmouth Herald
Updated 3:19 p.m. ET April 5, 2025
PORTSMOUTH — "Large crowds of protesters gathered Saturday at "Hands Off" rallies in Seacoast New Hampshire and Maine and across the nation, speaking out against President Donald Trump and his administration's actions.
"Large crowds in downtown Portsmouth lined both sides of the length of Congress Street, spilling into side streets, exceeding expectations for city police.
Protesters have focused on issues like Trump's tariffs, Trump's actions to end protections for immigrants and transgender people, the dismantling of the Department of Education, cuts to the Veterans Administration, and layoffs of thousands of federal workers.
"Protesters in Portsmouth called for the Department of Government Efficiency to be dismantled, for the federal government to protect #teachers, public #school staff, #Abortionrights, #FederalWorkers, #WomensRights and #LGBTQ+ rights, labeled Trump “#orangeMussolini,” and called for preserving #Medicaid, #Medicare and #SocialSecurity.
“Hands off the Constitution,” one sign said. “Democracy is not for sale!”
Portsmouth crowd grows to thousands
Read more, view photos:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/local/2025/04/05/hands-off-rally-portsmouth-nh-trump-protest/82762300007/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/VtjVe
#NewHampshireResists #HandsOff2025 #April5th #BadDOGE #ResistFascism #USPol
#ConcordNH #HandsOff rally!
Crowds gather in Concord, other New Hampshire communities for 'Hands Off!' rallies
https://www.wmur.com/article/hands-off-rallies-new-hampshire-4525/64395338
#NewHampshireResists #HandsOff2025 #April5th #BadDOGE #ResistFascism
It seems I wasn't the only one using nazi imagery on a sign. #SouthPortlandME #HandsOff #HandsOff2025 #MaineResists #HandsOff2025 #April5th #BadDOGE #ResistFascism
#KingOfChaos! Another brilliant sign from the #SouthPortlandME #HandsOff rally!
#HandsOff2025 #HandsOffScience #MaineResists #HandsOff2025
#April5th #BadDOGE #ResistFascism
[Thread] So, I was at the #SouthPortlandME #HandsOff rally. Not as big as the #PortlandME or #AugustaME ones (I hear Augusta one was HUGE), but we still made an impact! I brought extra signs and found folks willing to hold them up! That's where I needed to be!
#SouthPortlandME #MaineResists #HandsOff2025 #April5th #BadDOGE #ResistFascism #FreeMahmoudKhalil #WaterIsLife #FundLibrariesNotSpaceX #MainePride
[Thread] Some photos from #Maine #HandsOff rallies (not my images, from the Portland Press Herald).
#PortlandME #FreeportME #SouthParisME #MaineResists #HandsOff2025 #April5th #BadDOGE
Many representing in Philadelphia, in front of the Constitution center
"so much wrong, so little cardboard" That was my favorite sign.
#april5th #indivisible #philadelphia @indivisibleteam #handsoff
TOMORROW SATURDAY APRIL 5
#April5 #april5th #april5rally #resist #resistance #democracy #protests #protest