Here’s the podcast post of my virtual Sustain What meetup with a batch of folks out in the Hands Off protests against the Trump and Musk approach to “governing.” I was also joined by a longtime reader, Josette, from New Hampshire, who used to work in telecommunications at Perkins Coie, one of the law firms that Trump has attacked. We discussed this bit of good news from Friday (here from Reuters):
More than 500 law firms have signed a court brief denouncing Donald Trump's targeting of Perkins Coie and other firms, expressing alarm over the Republican president's intensifying crackdown on the legal profession.
As I noted in my curtain raiser yesterday, protest is vital, but so is wider resistance to such a power grab - in corporate, legal and other arenas. Read that piece here for more:
Voices from the Nationwide "Hands Off" Anti-Autocracy Protests
Updated post-webcast: Can the United States escape the rapid consolidation and exercise of blunt-force power and corruption in the White House under President Trump and his silent partners in the Republican-controlled House and Senate?
Josette also made an important point about keeping such rallies peaceful but, at the same time, predicting that Trump, sooner or later, will find an excuse to declare yet another national emergency to clamp down on dissent:
I'm just hoping today stays completely peaceful and there's no excuse. But at some point, I fully expect him to try to turn this into a military state, a police state, you know.
Have a listen and let me know your experiences if you went to a protest, or your thoughts on next steps if you didn’t.
My wife, Lisa Mechaley, took this photo at the Bangor demonstration.
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