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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Over a 1000 radical gathered successful Fresno arsenic portion of a nationwide "Hands Off" protestation against the Trump medication and Elon Musk connected Saturday.
The Brown Berets, Indivisible, San Joaquin Valley Resistance 50501 and Peace Fresno were among the organizations that extended their beingness down Shaw Avenue adjacent Fresno Street arsenic portion of the peaceful demonstration.
"Hands disconnected our societal security, hands disconnected Medicaid, hands disconnected the Department of Education and hands disconnected each of those things [Trump] is trying to get escaped of," said Amanda Gann, pb organizer of Women's March Central Valley and subordinate of San Joaquin Valley Resistance 50501.
"If we enactment silent, we cannot enact change. So, we request to get unneurotic similar we are present contiguous to combat for that change," said Gann. "We spot that our government, Trump, is truly being hands-in-hands with authoritarian leaders similar Putin and Hungary's Orbán. So we truly privation to travel unneurotic and combat against that due to the fact that we request to support our ideology and support our rights."
According to the Associated Press, successful effect to the protests, the White House released the pursuing statement:
"President Trump’s presumption is clear: helium volition ever support Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid for eligible beneficiaries. Meanwhile, the Democrats’ stance is giving Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare benefits to amerciable aliens, which volition bankrupt these programs and crush American seniors."
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Organizers accidental the protestation besides encouraged the assemblage to marque their voices heard by contacting section legislature representatives, whether it beryllium attending municipality halls oregon downloading the app "5 Calls," which provides interaction to representatives.
"We are present to support democracy, and we volition not backmost down," Gann concluded.
