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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 08:46:24 JST Paul Cantrell

   Hey there MSP! I’ll be at the Tesla protest tomorrow in Golden Valley, 11-noonish! Come on by!

   And wherever you are, betcha there’s one near you too: https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/teslatakedown

   #TeslaTakedown #MSP #Minneapolis #Minnesota #uspol

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 08:48:27 JST Paul Cantrell

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     Last weekend, 3+ million people (maybe as many as 5 million?) took to the streets in the USA. That is awesome, but it doesn’t count for diddly if we all take our signs and go home afterwards. Rallies are demonstrations of capacity…but capacity to •what•, exactly?

     Well, here’s one answer: we have the capacity to make the Tesla brand so shameful, so socially toxic, that their sales tank and their stock along with it — which matters because Musk has so very much of his wealth (and thus power) tied up in that stock.

     #TeslaTakedown

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 08:50:37 JST Paul Cantrell

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     This is social action that has a concrete impact. And all it takes is showing up an holding a sign for a while. But we do have to actually show up. Otherwise last weekend was just a blip on the march to fascism.

     And look, I know not everyone can show up for any given particular thing at any particular time. Do what you can, not what you can’t.

     But •do• do what you can. If you can show up for one of these, do it!

     https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/teslatakedown

     #TeslaTakedown

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 11:48:35 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷

     @Tooden The 3-5 million in my post is just the range of informed guesses I’ve heard.

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     Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷 (tooden@aus.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 11:48:36 JST Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷

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     @inthehands I am sure someone did a rough count of West Coast protests being nearly 4 million. So, 3mil+ has to be an under-guesstimate.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 08:11:19 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Bleistifterin

     @bleistifterin
     I have not. I'm aware of the existence of protests in general, but not what students are doing specifically.

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     Bleistifterin (bleistifterin@fnordon.de)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 08:11:20 JST Bleistifterin

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     @inthehands Have you seen what the students in serbia are doing to build a movement around civil empowerment? We can all learn something...

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 23:43:48 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Bleistifterin

     @bleistifterin
     Thank you for the tip! Followed, and I'll try to watch and learn.

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     Bleistifterin (bleistifterin@fnordon.de)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 23:43:50 JST Bleistifterin

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     @inthehands if you are interested in the student protests in Serbia, follow
     https://d-64.social/@dejan for reporting and analysis (in German, but DeepL can surely help). He also writes about democracy and (higher) education in Germany, so I assume it is right up your alley...