This afternoon, some 60 to 70 people gathered on an overpass in South Jersey near the entrance of State Route 42. They held signs protesting the actions of the Trump administration and the devastating effects it’s having by its demolition on the Department of Education.
Armed with bullhorns and a cause igniting the fire in their bellies and with approving horn blasts from cars and even louder acknowledgements from tractor trailers, they knew and they know that the public is with them.
I took no photos of the protesters today for both their safety and their individual privacy. (Attached photos were supplied by the group).
The right to assemble is protected under the first amendment of the US Constitution as is the freedom of speech among other constitutional guarantees. With those rights, we need to be as relentless and as loud in speaking out against the national and international travesties that he’s causing as he is in boasting about them.
One by one, my friends, the parts of our American life that created the post war boom are being dismantled. It’s being dismantled for the greed of billionaires who are not satisfied with an overly lopsided tax system. Nothing seems safe from the axe of the madman. The public school system, the safety nets enacted by FDR’s New Deal, and more, are all under threat from DOGE. One has to wonder what would happen should the tobacco industry ask this regime to revisit the regulations that removed cigarette advertisements from our lives. Who’s to say what an ask and a donation, aka graft, will do?
Will his regime try to eviscerate the 13th Amendment and repeal the outlawing of slavery? You might think, no way! I counter with: look at what it has already done to women. Look what he’s doing to voting rights!
We need to stop this madness! We need to speak up and speak out, while we still can!
