‘Hands Off’: Protesters deliver a sweeping message to Trump and Musk at a DC rally

On Saturday, there were thousands of marks all around the Washington monument, which had messages spread on countless topics. “Support Ukraine,” “Be careful of the Dodge,” “Protect Trans Life,” some of them were. Others hit a note of frustration: “Where do I start …”

Organizers estimate that millions of protesters across the country were included in 1,300 different incidents this weekend, which is estimated to be affected by a wide range of reasons, but two people: President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk. In the symbols they brought to the DC rally, some protesters focused on the same issue. Others tried to fit more and more. This line was a message to the US government: Protect democracy, and stop messing up with programs and agencies that are important.

The mob in Washington, DC – more than 100,000, which was estimated by each organizer’s estimates – was peaceful and organized. At one stage behind the Washington monument, representatives, such as Legislature Jamie Raskin (DMD) and Max Well Frost (DFL) and AFLCIO President Liz Shuller, addressed. Participants around them quietly heard, rescued the Trump administration’s occasional calls and reaction slogans, chairs, or boz. A group of protesters marched around the monument, “Stop hand! Throw the Trump!”

Many messages and movements that were converted to Washington were often easily easily exempt. When I stood on the corner of a street outside the National Mall, a handful of protesters urged people to join them for a Palestinian rally in Capital at 1 pm, an hour after the main event started programming. A man with a federal worker’s union hint intervened, and told a Palestinian protesters that when they support their message, they are worried about removing people from central protests. He urged passers -by, “Don’t leave the main rally.” Palestinian supporters adjust his message. “Join the Palestinian rally at any time, raises your soul,” and “go to both rallies but don’t forget Palestine.”

In front of the Washington monument, a woman named Susan was put into the blue pond noodles that contained indicators in the air: “Dodge is a scam,” said, “Stand with Ukraine,”. A third sack was a long list of things that the government should keep out of its “hand”: law firms, universities and many federal agencies. He told me, “There are a lot of things that Trump has done – and can be a bit and (Vice President JD) Venice – who are provocative.” “Every day, there are four or five things. Whether it is snatching people from the road, cutting agencies that act really important – things that can make someone who runs a Sled Hammer instead of a skull.” Susan, who refused to give his last name, says he chose pool noodles to reduce the peacefulness of the program. “This is a non -violent movement, and unlike the January 6 rebels who brought the broth to use flag poles and other things as weapons, everyone here is here to protest peacefully.”

Some administrators Arrangement of buses To help people travel to the country’s capital for a rally. , Even though many people showed near home in incidents across the country (and, thanks to protests in several major European cities, the world.) New York City Was reported to DC’s turnout-which is a very small city-and stereotypical protests like Adhu and Western Virginia have gathered in deep red states. But for many who attended the DC rally, the incident was deeply personal. “The Russell vote said that they want to put us in shock, and they are providing this promise every day,” “a man who identified himself as a federal worker and refused to name the project 2025, who led the administration and the budget office. “And since January 20, this has been nothing but a nightmare for 3 million federal employees.”

Leonard Bailey, a retired Department of Justice, developed a large personality of a person in the government’s performance (Dodge) cap of the department (Dodge), outside the chicken wire and expansion foam. Talking to me, holding his statue from behind, Bailey said that he really had a “trouble” to see how he was being treated for 33 years of working colleagues. “My experience with the colleagues with whom I worked with the time was those who worked well to keep the American people safe through family holidays, at the end of the night, at the end of the week.” He began his prefixed retirement in January, and when he says, “People keep telling me how big I am, I see the case of the survivor.”

The man who identified himself as a federal worker was standing in a crowd near the stage, offering small American flags, offering to tap on people’s gestures. “White supremacy has been marching with our flag for a long time,” he said. “I just think it’s time to claim it again. They have eliminated it. They have turned it into something that never meant, and it is freedom for all, not for choice of choice. “(Some people appeared to be reluctant to take flags, just considering when they told them,” We will take it back from right. ”

Joining other federal workers, a member of the Agency’s Union, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Enforcement Attorney Doug Wilson, was satisfied. The CFPB has taken a two -month stone, in which the acting director has ordered the employees to stop working, even a judge recently ordered them to return while a wider case is pending.

For months, federal workers in the DC have been organizing protests in front of federal buildings, and the catastrophe has led to the federal manpower, overthrowing Trump and Kasturi. Many of the preliminary protests were small, which pulled out something at the behest of 50 participants. Withdraw from protests in the DC – and a wide range of action – runs on a completely different scale. But for some participants, it offered the same purpose: show them to defend their work for years or decades. Wilson arrived at the protest on Saturday, “It is good to stay together and experience this solidarity.” “I want the country to hear that we do our job to protect them … I want the American people to know that we just want to work.”