Thousands of protestors gathered across the US on Saturday for a series of “Hands Off!” rallies coordinated by a Soros-funded activist group.
“With Trump and congressional Republicans doubling down on their agenda to gut essential services, everyday Americans are sending a clear message: Take your hands off our healthcare, our Social Security, our civil rights, our freedom, and our education,” the rally organizers said in a statement, according to CBS News.
Videos posted to social media show activists in Washington DC and New York City.
The rallies have received major support from Indivisible, an organization that has received around $8 million from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations since 2017.
Cofounder of Indivisible Ezra Levin spoke to Rachel Maddow on MSNBC before the protests and said there would be protests in every state involving “normal, everyday people who are saying, ‘Hey, I’ve had enough. I’ve seen the institutions fall. I’ve seen the universities. I’ve seen businesses. I’ve seen law firms not stand up not support our liberal democracy. So what am I going to do as an individual? Well, I’m going to do my part. I’m going to show up.’”
Indivisible was also providing a form for people to fill in to stage their own local protests. The form states, “This mass mobilization day is our message to the world that we do not consent to the destruction of our government and our economy for the benefit of Trump and his billionaire allies. Across the country, we are marching, rallying, and protesting to demand a stop the chaos and build an opposition movement against the looting of our country.”
The activist group also provides various other free tools for protestors, including messaging and slogans for signs and a wide array of printed materials.
Indivisible have been major players in coordinating the new “resistance” to President Trump. The group has been leading attempts to force Chuck Schumer to resign and also coordinating protests against Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
The group’s co-executive director Ezra Levin announced the plan to oust Schumer shortly after the recent funding bill passed, with Schumer’s help: “Senator Schumer should step aside as leader. Every Democrat in the Senate should call for him to do so, and begin making plans for new leadership immediately.”
He added that the wrangling over the spending bill should have been used by Democrats as a “rare, precious point of leverage,” but “Schumer did the opposite. He led the charge to wave the white flag of surrender.”
Indivisible is also coordinating protests against Elon Musk and his work as head of DOGE, including offering $200 payments to activists to take part in “Musk or us”-themed protests.