Photos From Not My President’s Day in New York City

#RefuseFascism.org tabling with fliers in different languages.

From the flier:

NO In the Name of Humanity, We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America! Drive Out the Trump/Pence Regime! The Trump/Pence Regime is a Fascist Regime. Not insult or exaggeration, this is what it is. For the future of humanity and the planet, we, the people, must drive this regime out.

Poster held at Columbus Circle where over 13k demonstrators signed onto the event’s Facebook page to show up to express their distrust for the current Presidential Administration and calling for his removal.

Tens of thousands were protesting in NYC and in cities around the U.S. yesterday on the President’s Day holiday against Trump on issues including immigration, climate change.; NYC, Los Angeles, Chicago, Salt Lake City, demonstrators had a stand off with police in downtown Portland Oregon. Rapid City, South Dakota and Seattle Washington.

Organized by @NotMyPresidentsDay

The crowds filled Central Park West from Columbus Circle up to 68th street where NYPD was allowing people to enter from Broadway while the streets before 68th were closed off to traffic and pedestrians.

Donald Trump is literally our President, but figuratively, he has attacked every value New Yorkers embody and does not represent our interests. We will be staging a rally at Columbus Circle to protest the un-American policies of the current White House:

He plans to cut federal funding to our state in an attempt to turn us against our immigrant population, funneling money away from important public institutions.
He wants to use our tax money to build a wall that no one wants.
He attacked our Muslim communities and instituted an Islamophobic religious ban.
He approved a pipeline that threatens to destroy sacred lands.
His administration opposes a woman’s right to choose and purged the White House website of information pertaining to police brutality and LGBTQ rights.
His party doesn’t take climate change seriously and undermines our state’s efforts to combat it.

Alan Messer told me he’s “mad at Trump because he’s a blue collar guy, my father was a lumber jack, my mother grew up on a farm. Nuts and bolts, clean air, clean water, good science and that’s the reality of it”. Alan went on to say that, “The Republicans have been captured by irresponsible, reckless corporations. WE NEED TO MOVE TO A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE. We have to get out of fossil fuels. I’m a bird watcher and I see it in nature when you pay attention to what’s going on in the trees. When you see what’s happening in California with Southern Albatross showing up there for the fist time following the fish that are following the warm water currents.” “WE NEED TO GET IT TOGETHER, WE CAN’T GO ON WITH POLLUTING” “TRUMP IS A CODDLED, SPOILED BRAT. The first time I saw him in the 80’s, he’s a ‘Child Man’. He’s never had to be responsible, he doesn’t understand reality”.

Donald Trump stands against the progress we have worked hard to enact. He does not represent our interests. He was voted in by a minority of the American public but governs as if there’s no resistance. But there is — and on February 20th, we will honor previous presidents by exercising our constitutional right to assemble and peacefully protest everything Donald Trump stands for.

There is a congressional recess on February 20th that aligns with President’s Day. Let’s rally while our federal representatives are back in town and remind them who they represent.

#NOTMYPRESIDENTSDAY
#IMPEACH
#RESIST