On the 12th of April, Occupy Tallahassee held a press conference across the street from the FL state Capitol, This was the night before a scheduled vote on a bill to ban almost all abortion in Florida after 6 weeks.
Speakers including elected members of the state house, (one of whom was arrested on April 3 at the initial Occupy Tallahasse location by City Hall) warned that this is extreme antiabortion/forced birth and anti-trans/LGBTQ agenda is not just intended for Florida but the entire US. It is to be DeSantis’s springboard to the US Presidency at the expense of genocide of those who don’t look, act, and pray as he does.
Occupy Tallahassee holding strong at courthouse in Tallahassee as abortion ban bill vote looms for next day As this was being edited, many Occupytally23 activists were speaking at public hearings in theState House. At one point they were insultingly told to “wrap it up.
On the 11th of April, as night fell over Occupy Tally (Occupy Tallahassee), a physician held a teach-in on the gritty details of abtaining abortion in FL and other unfriendly states, with or without the consent of Christian nationalist politicians and their repressive, misogynistic laws.
This flier appeared as if by magic at Occupy Tallahassee’s abortion access fundraiser Your browser does not support iframes, but you can use the following link. <a href=”https://archive.org/embed/occupy-tally-teach-in-4-11-2023-540p” title=””>Link</a>
On the 10th of April, protesters returned to the home of Supreme Court “Justice” Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginni. This came after the scandal broke concerning Thomas accepting years of unlawful gifts of luxury travel and hospitality from a billionaire GOP donor.
On the 7th of April, Brasfield and Gorrie got another protest at their Coral Gables location in Coral Gables, part of the Greater Miami area. This is the 3ed time they’ve been hit, after an earlier protest and an earlier direct action against the hotel housing them
On the 8th of April, another drag queen story hour was successfully held on Barrack’s Row in SE Washington DC. A stout defense by umbrella-wielding drag defenders deterred anyone from mounting a serious attack and shielded the kids and performers from low level harassment.
Weeks ago, an attempt by Proud Boys to forcibly break throught similar defenses in Silver Spring was defeated outright. This time around, they didn’t even try.
On the 3ed of April, as the Florida Senate rammed through the SB 300 six week abortion ban, eleven protesters were arrested for holding their ground NOT at the Florida state house (considered too dangerous to engage) but rather at Tallahassee’s city hall. A democratic Mayor sided with Ron DeSantis and ordered their arrests. On the 8th of April, a solidarity protest was held in Tampa, FL both to pressure prosecutors to drop the charges and to promote Occupy Tallahassee starting right back up again on Monday, April 10.
Donald Trump’s surrender and arraignment on 34 felony counts drew duelling protests to NYC, but anti-Trump protesters had the edge. Marjorie Taylor Greene was supposed to be the star of the pro-Trump protest but she had to abandon her attempt to appear and run for it (with a massive security escort) when anti-Trump protesters swarmed her attempt to enter the area.
On the 4th of April, Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAA) held a rally and march on the headquarters of the EPA. They were demanding that the EPA stop delaying the issuance of carbon and other emission regulations for power plants and other major facilities. A New Orleans style brass band was included in the march, as is often the case in DC actions.
On the 3ed of April, John Brown Gun Club DMV released detailed evidence on Twitter of the violent threats by Adam Michael Murray to shoot up the Transgender Day of Vengeance, threats that forced the events’s cancellation.
Photos found by John Brown Gun Club DMV of Adam Michael Murray
Many details at: https://twitter.com/JBGC_DMV/status/1643055988130340864
Especially ugly and the core of the threat is his Instagram video as reposted here: https://twitter.com/JBGC_DMV/status/1643056006870491137
In that video Adam first shows the flier for the Trans Day of Vengeance, then a video game scene of first person shooter characters shooting up a crowded shopping mall. Adam Michael Murray was arrested in Baltimore, 17 hours from his home. He said “be there in about 20 hours. Protect your kids.” This combined with gun range photos with “troubling” hashtags and a blizzard of hate from the rest of the far-right led to the conclusion that to hold the event as planned risked exposing participants to the risk of being murdered by a mass shooter. Thus the event was cancelled, as saving trans lives was the objective
Adam Michael Murray was arrested in Baltimore, 17 hours from his home after saying “”
The main post is backed up to this author’s Mastodon at https://kolektiva.social/@LukefromDC/110138104634919920 and the offending video at https://kolektiva.social/@LukefromDC/110138120100391867 in case Twitter deletes them or locks them behind an “age verification” login wall.
