The Hands Off event proved Americans with a slew of different priorities can still form a broad left-liberal coalition<\/p>\n
What is the point of street protest? This is the question I asked myself as I rode the bus downtown to San Francisco city hall, where activists were hosting a rally and march for Hands Off, a national day of action meant to collect a broad range of resistance to the Trump regime under one banner.<\/p>\n
During the first Trump administration, I\u2019d gone to these a lot. I\u2019d attended the Women\u2019s March in Washington in January of 2017, and felt myself crushed between the bodies of the hundreds of thousands of attenders; I\u2019d held a sign at JFK airport, chanting \u201cImmigrants are welcome here\u201d, a few weeks later, when Trump instituted his travel ban. In 2020, I\u2019d marched in Black Lives Matter protests, trying to avenge the horror I had felt when I\u2019d seen videos of police officers killing Black men, often as they begged for their lives, played over and over again on the tiny screen of my phone. I\u2019d inherited a brutal and ugly world, I felt, and it seemed urgent to say that I rejected it, that I felt the rage and grief of its injustice, and to be among other people who felt the same way.<\/p>\n
Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist<\/p>\n
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