Notices by Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)

The attacks by the Trump administration on universities by cutting funding are painful, and are going to damage our ability to conduct research. The attacks that are revoking student visas are utterly terrifying to students and are destroying our ability to teach.

@tinker

https://multdems.org/action-alert-hands-off-portland-fights-back-rally-this-saturday/

HANDS OFF! Portland fights back rally

Saturday, April 5th, 11:30 AM
Battleship Oregon Memorial
SW Naito Pkwy, Portland, OR 97204

Your participation matters:

🔥 Power in numbers!

✊ Stand together with neighbors and build the movement we need to win.

🚲🌲🚲 Join neighbors from ALL OVER PORTLAND who are meeting up to travel to the protest together.

📱 Sign up for our event on Mobilize:
https://www.mobilize.us/multnomahdemocrats/event/771275/

#ORpol #pdxpol #pdx #Portland

News: Hands Off Crowd Estimated At 2.3 Million By Alt National Parks

"Wow! Updated estimates now put turnout at 2.3 million — and we're still waiting on reports from coalition members in other areas, with some events yet to begin! If you're free, come out and join us. Over 1,400 events are planned across the country. People often ask what a coalition of 200,000 can do. The answer's simple — with all our free time (since a lot of us got fired), we're out here causing a lot of good trouble."

The #HandsOff protests taking place across the United States right now are Antifascism Protests. They are that and explicitly that. If you know ANYone with any responsibility for writing headlines, make fucking well sure that person understands that.

@blogdiva
Some people in my TL are claiming 5 million today. Not confirmed, numbers will be fuzzy for a bit, but…yeah, it’s a good start.

Love this from @realmaplesyrup.

My favorite sign of the day? Probably the 7yo in a fuzzy dinosaur suit who has a sign that said “Donald Dump is poop and pee.” https://hachyderm.io/@realmaplesyrup/114286948149562427

Let me recap the events:

1. Israel murdered, in cold blood, 15 Palestinian medics and aid workers (including short range shots to the head).
2. Israel buries them in a mass grave, alongside their vehicles.
3. Israel says the medics were shot because they were “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency signals toward Israeli troops.
4. The mass grave is discovered, and video on an aid worker's body shows Israel lies and covered up the massacre.

1/4

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza

@grimalkina
Amazing. You, him, the story, all of it.

As I have shared here and there I am engaged in a decades long very painful, brutal and dogged self-imposed job of talking politics with my dad who is extremely religious & right. I strive to continue to be perhaps the only not-that voice he ever listens to in his tradcath world. At any rate, everything is bullshit, and many things have failed to reach him that I thought would, but he is profoundly horrified by the seizure of international students and the trampling of their right to expression

"[Senator Chris] Murphy put it perfectly:

Everything Trump and his cronies are doing is about empowering oligarchs and silencing the rest of us. That’s why we need a mass mobilization…."

~ Ben Meiselas

#Trump #tariffs #oligarchy #power #corruption #resistance
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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/senators-chris-murphy-and-tim-kaine

Interrupting this politics free weekend to say the Tucson Hands Off protest was huge! Totally shocked. I'm really curious what the numbers were.

It was wall to wall people where I showed up, both sides of the street, and I thought I'd walk down and see how far the crowd went. It went all the way down to the next block, and then people were on the side streets.

People were fired up.

#Tucson #HandsOff

#April5 #HandsOff #Syracuse

@WideEyedCurious @martin.kleppmann.com
Something I saw circa 2018:

“Please don’t let me be the worst president of the 21st century” said George W. Bush as he closed has fingers around the monkey’s paw

@martin.kleppmann.com @WideEyedCurious
And W is no longer the worst president.

[head in hands]

This guess of 25-30k from @carstenfranke sounds highly plausible to me, squares with my impression from being there.
https://mastodon.social/@carstenfranke/114287161650097375

@jumbanho
Feh, a useless source communicated in a useless channel

All I can find so far is “well in excess of 10,000 people,” which was clearly true.

Does anybody have a crowd size estimate for the Minnesota state capitol #HandsOff protest yet?

The traffic getting there was bonkers: we tried to ride the rail, but train after train kept going by full already. Crowd seemed in the same general universe as the Women’s March in 2017, but it was very hard to compare because we couldn’t really see how far it extended from where we were…. I’d love to hear a count!

@jmeowmeow
It’s a good sign to have!

Note that all this is from a guy who declares himself a staunch supporter of Israel. If •he• can spot the con Trump is pulling on Jewish people in the US, well….

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