Downtown Miami protest planned Saturday vs Donald Trump policies

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It’s not just about immigration and national security. It’s not just about veteran’s rights and climate change. It’s not just about education and the raiding of treasury records and the tariff wars that are going to raise consumer prices and the manipulation of the stock market and the tanking the global economy for personal gain and the marginalization of the LGBTQ community.

It’s about all of it.

A protest planned for this Saturday in downtown Miami is described as being more like a “full-scale mobilization” against “the billionaire takeover” and all things Trump/Musk. “Because this administration has betrayed us on all fronts,” an email flyer says. “They want us silent? We’re showing up with pots, pans, and purpose.”

Pots and pans! ¡Ya tu sabes!

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The event is being promoted by the 50501 organization — which stands for “50 protests, 50 states one movement” — that also helped organize the national Hands Off! protests April 5 that saw hundreds of thousands of people show up in Washington, D.C, New York, Los Angeles, Utah and everywhere — with some very creative signs.

According to Newsweek, the group has posted on social media that the goal is to get 3.5 percent of the U.S. population — which would be more than 11 million individuals — to the different protests nationwide. This is apparently the threshold for “sustained resistance in order to make a difference,” the magazine article reported.

Among the speakers slated to be at the Miami event is United Teachers of Dade President Karla Hernandez-Mats, a onetime candidate for lieutenant governor, who will speak on behalf of teachers, parents and students. She said that it is important for people to know what it really means to lose the federal Department of Education for special needs and economically disadvantaged students. The real ramifications, she said, are shuttered programs and kids left out.

“It’s important that our people mobilize,” Hernandez-Mats told Political Cortadito. “It’s not going to slow down. It’s going to keep up ramping up.

“Countries that are successful against authoritarianism are countries that have under representation, but also big movements.”

She said the goal is to encourage congressional leaders to take action.

“These fascist, authoritarian attacks are unprecedented and we’re hoping Congress takes back its power.”

There will also be “action stations” to engage voters:

• Indivisible Miami Action Team will help you start organizing in your own backyard—because change begins at the block level.
• 50501 Florida is setting up a mobile call center—with scripts and info ready—so we can flood our Congressman’s office with calls. Just show up, sit down, and dial in.
• @Moms4Libros and @ehrforce will register voters, help them make vote-by-mail requests, and recruit poll watchers to “defend democracy at the ballot box.”

Hundreds of people were reported to attend the national day of protest — where demonstrations where coordinated in cities across the U.S. — last weekend at Miami’s Torch of Friendship on Biscayne Boulevard in the downtown. It looked like more than 1,000 on social media videos.

This Saturday’s event is from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

“Bring your voice. Bring your sign. Bring the noise. This land is OUR land. And we’re not going anywhere,” the email says.

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  Donald Trump, immigration, Karla Hernandez-Mats