Huge crowds gather in 'Hands Off' rallies nationwide in protest of Trump administration

Hundreds of people out today in our little town. Very surprised by the turnout, was expecting maybe half the amount of people at best. Got connected with a local organization too.

Kansas checking in. It was cold and damp out today, but we still got a great turnout (and a lot of people honking as they drove past to show support).

I was there at one in Los Angeles. Good vibes. I keep thinking that there is simply no good communication methods available for a movement like this. Our social media and even direct messaging is owned by billionaires. They will silently shut down any organized movement to make people stay home and feel hopeless as they doomscroll. It's happened to me, but today renewed some home. The public needs to adopt fediverse apps, broadly and quickly. And the fediverse has to be ready for the public. It has to be easy to use, easy to explain, have name recognition, and have content to follow. With these protests, I want to convince people to move to fediverse apps but I feel like I don't have a good elevator pitch. How do I get people who want to get involved, who might have been on Reddit, to jump over here to Lemmy? A business card?? Sticker? A sign? What would go on it, "Join the fediverse! Dump billionaire owned social media"? I'm rambling at this point I feel like but these are my thoughts

Nice to see that even American media start to report it. So far, it was only Europe reporting on this.

This is the perfect time for Americans to learn / re-learn about why May 1st is celebrated around the world.

It would be a massive missed opportunity if it wasn't a day of action in the US this year.