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.
On Feb 28, USAID workers were given just 15 minutes to clear out their desks and leave. As they left the building, protesters “clapped them out” cheering for them like civil disobedience protesters ejected from a targetted building.
This 15 minute limit creates close to an emergency departure routine, save that for Nazi tanks at the loading dock one would probably abandon all desk contents and beat it down the fire stairs.
More from DC Media Group (video above):
From dcmediagroup.us
Arlington VA—Local grassroots organizers stepped up actions on Saturday for the second weekend outside Elon Musk’s Tesla electric vehicle dealerships in hopes of spurring a boycott against the company. At least four dealerships were targeted in the region as fury rose against the mega-billionaire and world’s richest man. The protests were part of a national effort by many grassroots groups.
Local dealerships of the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia (DC-MD-VA) at Georgetown, Washington DC; Rockville, Maryland; Tysons Corner and Arlington, Virginia were among those sites of the weekend protests. The protesters stood on sidewalks outside the dealerships holding signs and encouraging passing motorists to boycott the electric vehicle car company. Many motorists passed blowing their horns in support of the protesters.
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On the 17th of February, the “50501” protests rocked the US from coast to coast. Up to 5,000 may have participated in DC, maybe 1,000 in Tampa, and hundreds more in a boisterous protest on Kenndedy Street in front of Tampa City Hall.
Tampa protesters adopted a new tactic: closing up and holding the banner across the street when traffic was stopped for a red light, then using the walk sign countdown to clear the street before the light turned green. This allowed the entire flow of afternoon rush hour traffic to see the protest instead of just the same dozen or so. A great many drivers cheered and honked in solidarity, even here in Florida.
A few stray Trumpers were chased away, the later ones warned “Nazis aren’t safe here!” Throughout the protest, Trump and Elon Musk were explicitly called not just Fascists but Nazis. This is what they are and Naziism must be stopped NOW.
On Feb 13, protesters marched on DC’s Kennedy Center for a fiesty queer dance party including drag performances out front. The cold weather didn’t slow it down in the least. The protesters were there in response to Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center and almost immediate announcement of a drag ban there. Protesters declared that “DC Says this is our house, we’ll do it anyway!”
On Feb 12, Donald Trump was installed as chairman of the Kennedy Center’s Board of trustees after a vote by directors all appointed by Trump to do so. Trump has vowed to ban drag shows there. Other performers of a wide variety of styles are now cancelling appearances at what may as well be the Trump Center. Trump is reviled in DC after all, and the “Trump Center” could face a de facto boycott.
On the 8th of February, far more protesters than expected turned out for a protest against Trump, Musk, and Fascism than organizers had planned. Well over 100 people, possibly twice that or more over the course of the afternoon showed up for the rally on Alafya Trail near a busy shopping mall and equally busy highway. Orlando cops threatened arrest for more than 100 people without a permit, but backed down after a stern lecture from FL State rep Anna Eskamini about constitutional rights.
Some of the organizers retreated before this threat was rebuffed, warning some vulnerable folks to get out in case OPD launched their 3ed attack in less than a year. Mass arrests would have been impossible without hundreds or even thousands of cops due to the open terrain and number of people. More people kept coming though, so those who left were quickly replaced. Eventually the crowd split into two units to ensure cops didn’t decide they had an excuse for a repeat.
Experienced organizers often scoff at threats related to permits, but nobody knows what the law is or if there IS any law with Trump in office. Thus the organizers acted with caution in dangerous times.
Once again though, protesters have opposed Trump in the open and gotten away with it. Trump’s threats of martial law and ordering National Guard troops to fire on protesters have not been delivered on. Activists in Chicago and Aurora served up stinging defeats to ICE, and the big LA ICE protests seem to be going down mostly unopposed.
Protesters and organizers have seized the initiative from Trump, and anyone familiar with warfare knows what that means. We have the ball, now is the time to PUSH with everything we’ve got, doing more of what is working.
My guess is that those behind Trump cannot afford to lose their fortunes to the economic devastation a hot civil war would bring. Presumably they also know shooting at protesters in the now very tense and heavily armed United States would almost guarantee such a civil war and wreck their economic position. So far, Trump has been forced to eat his words and blustering threats about martial law.