SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Anti Elon Musk protesters crowded the sidewalk exterior the Tesla dealership in San Francisco Monday. Chanting issues like, “Hey-hey, ho-ho, Trump and Musk have got to go,” protesters waved indicators emblazoned with anti-Musk messaging like ‘Do not Purchase Nazi Automobiles,” “Our Democracy is Not a Startup,” and “No One Voted for Elon Musk.”
The demonstration was a part of a nationwide day of protest going down throughout the nation on the Presidents’ Day vacation Monday.
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“The Bay Area has long known who Elon Musk truly is, and his new venture, his foray into fascism, needs to be stopped,” learn an announcement from the group behind the Tesla protest. The assertion known as for folks to affix in a nonviolent rally and “sign holding meetup” exterior the dealership, “to let the entire city know that supporting Elon Musk is bad for Democracy, and to remind our entire community that his dangerous actions won’t be tolerated.”
Organizers known as the demonstration a “peaceful action” and stated they might not enter the enterprise or cease anybody else from getting into or exiting the showroom, which is situated at 999 Van Ness Avenue.
Musk is the main target for 1000’s of Democratic activists launching a protest marketing campaign this week to combat the Trump administration’s push to intestine federal well being, schooling and human providers businesses.
Lots of of protests are scheduled exterior congressional places of work and Tesla dealerships, with organizers hoping to ship a pointed message to members of Congress who’re on recess this week.
The backlash nonetheless hasn’t approached the depth of protests throughout and after Trump’s first inauguration eight years in the past. However a free coalition of Democrats and progressives is coalescing round Musk’s rise as Trump’s high lieutenant and his purge of the federal paperwork.
“He’s a major weak link in the MAGA coalition,” Ezra Levin, co-founder of the progressive group Indivisible, stated of Musk. “I can’t think of something that polls worse than the richest man in the world is coming after your Social Security check or your Meals on Wheels or your Head Start.”
The Tesla protest is considered one of a number of going down throughout the Bay Space Monday. Protesters additionally gathered exterior San Francisco Metropolis Corridor to protest President Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
Monday marks the second time prior to now few days anti-Musk protesters have congregated exterior the Tesla showroom. The same protest broke out in the identical location on Saturday.
Within the South Bay, protesters additionally rallied in opposition to President Trump in San Jose.
Throughout the Bay, there was additionally a big protest deliberate in Oakland Monday.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
