I’m not a great joiner, or group-think acolyte. I recall attending anti-poll tax and ‘reclaim the streets’ events, in the ‘90s, and being distinctly uncomfortable.
However, that said, I am totally with those Americans protesting against Trump’s rapid goose-stepping towards fascism in the US right now.
I was really gutted there was nothing going on locally here in the UK, that I could get to. London is too far away and too expensive for me to visit, right now.
Of course there’s an irony in showing solidarity with the US ‘No Kings’ demos in a country that still has a King.
I was very worried that Trump’s jackbooted ICE goons, MAGA-moron infiltrators, and other such ne’erdowells would attempt to disrupt and tarnish at least some – if not all – the many events in the States.
So far it looks like that very much didn’t happen. Rather satisfyingly I read on one online source that in all the 2,700+ events, wit total attendance of over 7 million people, no arrests of demonstrators were made!
By contrast, 22 MAGA supporters had been arrested, attacking or attempting to disrupt the protests. I hope all of the above is true? It may be too early to say. But at least it appears to have all happened peacefully, as was intended.
*Compare this with the utterly ridiculous situation currently occurring – see above image – in the UK, with peaceful protesters (many of them very elderly!) being arrested for saying that we mustn’t support genocide in Gaza. The alleged ‘terrorist’ offence is supporting a proscribed organisation (?).