I\u2019ve always believed the people are powerful. Now we know the world\u2019s richest man does too<\/p>\n
On Saturday morning, I woke up to a nightmare of notifications. On Sunday, it got worse. Elon Musk<\/a> had tweeted and amplified inflammatory lies about me and Tesla Takedown, a growing national grassroots movement peacefully protesting<\/a> at Tesla<\/a> showrooms that I\u2019m proudly a part of. Musk tweeted: \u201cCosta is committing crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n As a longtime local activist and organizer in Seattle, I\u2019m accustomed to some conflict with powerful forces. The intention of the Tesla Takedown movement is to make a strong public stand against the tech oligarchy behind the Trump administration<\/a>\u2019s cruel and illegal actions, and to encourage Americans to sell their Teslas and dump the company\u2019s stock<\/a>. Protests like these \u2013 peaceful, locally organized, and spreading across the world \u2013 are at the heart of free speech in a democracy and a cornerstone of US political traditions. So it\u2019s telling that the response from so-called \u201cfree speech absolutist\u201d Musk has been to single out individuals \u2013 and spread lies about us and our movement. The harassment that\u2019s followed his post has been frightening.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve always believed the people are powerful. Now we know the world\u2019s richest man does too On Saturday morning, I woke up to a nightmare of notifications. On Sunday, it got worse. Elon Musk had tweeted and amplified inflammatory lies about me and Tesla Takedown, a growing national grassroots movement peacefully protesting at Tesla showrooms … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}