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Chapter 1: What protests are taking place across the country?
So we've seen protests like that outside of MAGA Republican-led town halls. We've seen the protests growing across the country, each week getting bigger. We've seen protests outside of Tesla, for example, as Elon Musk, Doge, and Trump take a wrecking ball to our economy, to Social Security, to Medicaid, to our federal government. Just take a look at this one. This is the Tesla protest in Boston.
I'll show you a quick clip of it. The protest spirit has been growing week by week. And today, I'm sure you've all heard of it. It's the hands-off protest. It will be in Washington, D.C., but it will be in all 50 states as well. And so as you wake up and you're watching this, there may be a hands-off protest taking place right now near you.
Chapter 2: What is the hands-off protest and where is it happening?
I want to give you all the information we're going to be covering today. This today, and of course, you all know, I mean, the news on Friday and Thursday, of course, this is the headline from Drudge. Don crashing the markets. The Dow was down 2,231 points. Donald Trump was then making posts, bragging about crashing the market. And Americans have had enough. Americans are saying nothing.
Hands off. You know, it's interesting for all of our Canadian viewers. You know, the expression is elbows up in Canada. And here, as there's this hostile takeover of our federal government, it's hands off. It's hands off of what you're doing to Social Security and Medicaid, to federal government. Hands off of women's reproductive rights. Hands off of treating workers like crap.
Chapter 3: How are these protests linked to the economic issues?
And again, we are going to cover it here at the Midas Touch Network. I want to bring in Rana Epting, the MoveOn Executive Director. Now, Rana, your organization is one of many organizations that are going to be leading these peaceful protests today. I want to give all of our viewers all the information they need to know about this.
So can you tell us about today's protests and where they're happening, what this is about, and what they need to know?
Chapter 4: Who is organizing the protests and how can you participate?
Yeah, happy to. Thanks for having me, Ben. Yeah, today is a big day. We've got over 1,300 activations, protests, rallies, all different types of ways of folks coming out to make sure their voices are heard to do exactly what you said.
demand that Trump and Musk and the Republicans keep their hands off of the things that we hold so dear in this country, like Social Security, Medicaid, education, jobs, you know, and like stop and Stop ruining our economy.
Chapter 5: What are the protesters demanding from Trump and Musk?
I mean, it's all these things that we're seeing coming out of this Trump-Musk administration that are really gutting the fabric of our society, our social safety net, our economy as a whole. They're attacking our rights to free speech, our freedoms. And folks have had enough. You saw those protests, those reels you just showed earlier. That's exactly the energy. It's
intense, it's real, it's authentic, and it's persistent. Like folks aren't going home, they're continuing to show up. And we've had over 2,000 actions all across the country since Donald Trump stepped back into the White House in January. And today is really about all of us that have been coming out to make our voices heard. We're doing it in one day together in a
And we've got 1,300 events, all 50 states. In some cities, you can go to handsoff2025.com, and you can find an event near you. In some places, folks are trying to decide between, do I go to an event 30 minutes away or 10 minutes away or five minutes away? So there is a lot happening. People have had enough. They are fed up.
They're not going to sit at home, and they're going to make sure that they come together in time. massive numbers to say in one voice, hands off of everything, hands off of our rights, our freedoms, our services, you name it.
Chapter 6: How do current protests compare to international movements?
You know, I think about these images we've been seeing internationally to Putin backed regimes, whether it's, uh, the Victor Orban regime in Hungary. And we've seen, you know, in Budapest, you know, started out tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, and then literally millions of people in the street. We've seen that in Belgrade with the Putin backed regime there. We've seen it in Tbilisi, uh,
in Georgia, country of Georgia. People there getting close to 200 days of protests against the Putin-backed regime there. I think authoritarian regimes want to quash all oppositions. Trump and Musk were talking about a shock and awe plan where they wanted to capture the media, where they wanted to capture all levels of government. You think about synchronization, which was what was talked about
You know, when Germany was taken over in the 40s, Trump wanted to take over everything kind of right away. But it seems now the resistance grows each and every day. And it seems he's golfing right now. As he crashed the economy, he's doing Saudi-backed live golf tournaments. And so it seems that it's growing. I mean, do you expect... This hands off to be the start of kind of many more.
I said I think we're going to see a summer of democracy with protests in the millions. But to me, this one today really kind of kicks off with all the energy we've seen and we sprint to that democracy summer. What are you seeing?
Look, as long as Trump and Musk and Vance and Republicans and all their friends continue to threaten the lives and livelihoods and rights of the American people here in this country, people are just going to get more and more pissed. Right. So it's up to them. They can listen to the people that they're supposed to represent and listen.
take a step back and slow their roll and really think about how do they want to govern in a way that builds trust with the people of this country? Or they can continue to steamroll forward and try to govern through fear. But one thing that's very clear, the people that are showing up, the people that are taking action, the people that are leaning in our gauge, we are not afraid.
We are stronger in numbers. We're not going anywhere. This is our country too. And we're not giving up on it.
So if someone's watching this right now this morning and they say, I really want to go, I want to get out there, I want to do something, what do they do? Where do they look up to find out if there is a hands-off protest near them?
Yeah, well, the good news is there probably is an event near you. Go to HandsOff2025.com and you can search for an event near you. If there isn't one, there are plenty of other opportunities to take action. We'll be organizing and supporting people to organize events during congressional recess over the month of August.
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