On the 8th of March, hundreds turned out for the St Petersburg, FL International Women’s Day event. Energy was high given the times, but as always there is a sour note in every parade.
One presunably pro-Trump agitator showed up and got physical, not only screaming at people but grabbing signs and shoving people. Somehow the cops ended up arresting the attacker instead of his victims.
Operation #TeslaTakedown continues in the Washington DC area. This time around, four Tesla showrooms got protests in a single day. Video is of the Rockville protest.
Note from the presence of US flags that the Tesla protests are attracting people from far beyond the “usual protest circles” populated by ourselves. NOBODY voted for Elon Musk, and things like trying to cut off Social Security and Medicaid/Medicare don’t just touch the “3ed rail of US politics,” they grab it firmly with both hands.
As the racist, sexist, homophobic and transphobic Trump/Musk regime attempt to consolidate power, protesters deployed all over the US for Internatonal Women’s Day.
One of these protests took place at Orlando’s Tesla showroom on Jonn Young Parkway. While larger protests were held in downtown areas elsewhere in Florida, Tesla is a high-value strategic target that would normally do a lot of business on a Saturday around Noon.
Tesla like Twitter was not created or built up in any way by Elon Musk. Rather, he bought up other people’s hard work and is now destroying the company, forcing the boycott by using Tesla revenues to subsidize his Fascist politics and campaign of destruction of services in the US.
We must boycott Tesla until Musk lets go of it and divests, or until they go out of business. Don’t feed the Fascists!
Tesla protests are popping up everywhere as Tesla stock crashes and burns. In Germany Tesla sales are now down 75%.
Even the Democrats have taken up the task of protesting at Tesla showrooms. On the sixth of March, they organized a protest in Florida’s rural Lake County, at the Tesla showroom in Clermont.
The Tesla campaign is nothing less than the public boot stepping on Elon Musk’s economic air hose.
A boisterous but peaceful and nonobstructive 50501 protest took place in Tampa on March 4 2025. Like last time, protesters held a line across the intersection when a red light had traffic stopped and used the walk signal timer to clear out ahead of green lights so traffic could proceed. This lets a lot more people see the protest from their cars than when the same 20 cars or so are held behind a blockade.
Chants of “No Trump, no KKK, no Fascist USA” and “No ICE, no KKK, no Fascist USA” were used a lot.
A small number of aggro Trumpers some in MAGA hats and with a Trump banner showed up, but they did not dare attempt to force the whole crowd to fight when agitation tactics failed.
Towards the end of the rally, a MAGA meathead with a prior history of harassing these protests in Tampa from his car showed up again. This time, he made a show of reaching for something inside the car while arguing. His hands came up empty, but I moved close to cover assuming that could have been a gun and he might yet draw it. He never did.
This was one of a great many 50501 protests all over the so-called “United States.”
On the 4th of March, protesters in Lakeland lined both sides of S Florida Ave in front of the office of Congressman Rep Scott Franklin (R-FL).
Only one car with an obvious MAGA flag was spotted counterprotesting, plus a couple other possibles. Meanwhile a steady stream of motorists honked in support.
These smaller Southern cities and towns are supposed to be Trump stronghold, but that’s not what we saw from passing traffic! After all, nobody anywhere voted for Elon Musk.
Note that someone apparently coal rolled us early in the ride but this attack was ineffective
Washington DC—Saturday marked the third week of Tesla protests in the DC-Maryland-Virginia (DC-MD-VA) area as the protests outside Tesla dealerships continued growing and spreading across the country. The protests reflect the extent of the rage many feel towards mega-billionaire Elon Musk for his role in the takeover and takedown of vital Federal agencies and functions. Protesters are urging car owners to sell their Teslas or boycott the electric car company altogether. They are calling their actions Tesla Takedown in response to Musk’s Federal Government takedown.
The fact that there are so many drivers honking their horns in support of the protesters shows that many who are not themselves directly involved in the protests support the cvil actions because they feel the same way as those on the sidewalks holding signs and banners, and chanting from bullhorns.
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There was no sign of ICE. An attack on this event would have been incredibly bad press. Plant City is a global capital of winter strawberry production, producing nearly all of the US winter strawberry crop. These strawberries are still harvested the old way, by hand.
Migrant farmworkers do nearly all the work of actually producing the strawberries. Now they are under serious threat from ICE, as sheriffs of nearby counties whine and moan to ICE about the presence of nonwhite migrants in their counties. The Lake County sheriff has been especially noisy about this, and ALL of the FL sheriff’s departments participate in ICE’s notorious 287(g) program (POGROM maybe?)
On March 1, the DC (actually Northern Virginia) Trump golf course was temporarily rebranded “Golf of Mexico” by protesters. This is in reference to the imperialistic attempts by Trump to force mapmakers to rename the Gulf of Mexico.
Note that most US media outlets have complied with Trump about the Gulf, and the AP has been banned from Air Force One and the West Wing for using the name “Gulf of Mexico.”
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