Working Pictures: 2025

Sunday, April 06, 2025

Hands OFF! (Two)

Hartford, Connecticut

With the weather still cold and rainy, at about 3:00 PM yesterday the grounds of the Connecticut Capital were jam packed for another Hands OFF! rally, with the biggest crowd I’ve ever seen there. The crowd was bigger than for the Women’s March after Trump’s first inauguration, and several times as large as any of the Tea Party rallies held during the Obama administration. There were several speakers. Connecticut Attorney General William Tong gave a barn burner of a speech—“Donald Trump thinks he can flood the zone, well I can flood the zone too! I sued him and got injunctions three times—THIS WEEK!” The crowd roared. He said he’d been a U.S. citizen for 51 years because he received automatic birthright citizenship when born to his immigrant parents, and he isn’t letting the 14th amendment go anywhere. Senator Richard Blumenthal gave a more subdued but still passionate speech about the importance of protecting our rights and freedoms and ending the destruction and havoc being caused by the current administration. There were more speakers from government and teachers and medical union leaders and others. Any crowd estimate will likely undercount because it’s a moving target: when I left about 4:00 some people were heading away but most were staying and scores of people were just arriving.

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Hands OFF! (one)

Litchfield, Connecticut

A remarkably large number of people gathered on the Litchfield Green in cold, rainy conditions yesterday at 11:00 AM, part of the nationwide Hands OFF! protest.

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