Rallies Opposing President-Elect Trump’s Agenda Set in Scores of U.S. Cities, Including California Capital

Vanguard News Desk Editor

SACRAMENTO, CA – At least 75 demonstrations are set around the U.S. this weekend—including in the capital of California—to protest soon-to-be President Donald Trump’s “extreme right billionaire agenda” and inauguration next week.

The Sacramento rally begins Saturday, Jan. 18, at 12 Noon at the Federal Courthouse, 501 I St.

National details are listed at  WeFightBack2025.org.

Sacramento organizers said they were “responding to a call from the We Fight Back 2025 mobilization activists and concerned community members (and) will hold a rally for immigrant rights, worker’s rights, women’s rights, LGBTQ rights and demand money for people’s needs, not the war machine.”

“Trump ran a con game during the election. His real agenda is to destroy worker’s rights, deport millions of immigrant families, and pave the way for complete corporate takeover by ending regulations to protect the environment, firing thousands of public sector workers, and transferring ever-larger parts of the National Treasury to the military industrial complex,” said Kevin Martinez of the ANSWER Coalition.

Tahnee Stair Sweeney, also an organizer for the ANSWER Coalition, added, “Trump is 100 percent behind Netanyahu’s genocidal war against the Palestinian and Arab people. But we can defeat the Trump program. The fight starts right now. Tens of thousands of people are taking action this weekend all across the country, and joining this new national movement.”

“Trump 2024 election,” according to organizers nationally, “represents the complete failure of the Democratic Party to stop the rise of the ultra-right. In fact, they have contributed to it by adopting much of the program of the extreme right while embracing endless war. 

“Instead of responding to the needs of the people, both the Democrats and the Republicans have moved further and further to the right. Trump’s agenda is the culmination of this right-ward spiral, and his administration will move to make major gains for the billionaire class at the expense of the millions of everyday people in the US and across the world.”

National organizers, on their website, said they can beat Trump “not by following the Democratic Party establishment, but by building a massive movement against the ruling class and the political system that gives everything to billionaires while impoverishing an ever larger section of the population.

“This fight starts right now. Tens of thousands of people are taking action on January 20th all across the country. Join this new national movement.”

Initial endorsers of the Jan. 18 Sacramento rally include ANSWER Coalition, Codepink, United Auto Workers Local 4811, Veterans for Peace, Jewish Voice for Peace, Decarcerate Sacramento, Democratic Socialists of America, Filipinx LGBTQAI+, Fridays for our Future, Gabriella Sacramento, Green Party, Healthcare Workers for Palestine, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Peace Action, Peace and Freedom Party, Poor People’s Campaign Sacramento and Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.

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          1. Ok, I decided to even start: Intersectionality, Latinx, cultural appropriation, microaggressions, systemic racism, “check your privilege”, white fragility, lived experience, decolonize, BIPOC, trigger warning, safe space, cancel culture, allyship, restorative justice, toxic masculinity, non-binary, gender-affirming, call-out culture, social construct, equity (vs. equality), anti-racist, misgendering, neurodivergent.

            Shall I go on? You may be able to argue some of these, but you can’t argue all of them — that is vs. the “MAGA” examples, that — actually — people outside of “Trump cultists” most certainly do use.

  1. I understood that there was already a “rally” on November 4th, in regard to the majority of voters at least.

    And that’s without even counting the preferences of cats, dogs, and geese. 🙂

  2. “Tahnee Stair Sweeney . . added, “Trump is 100 percent behind Netanyahu’s genocidal war against the Palestinian and Arab people.”

    What . . . WHAT? I thought it was Mike Thompson and the Democrats who were supporting said war.

    And what was the adjective there . . . genocidal. Kind of ends the conversation doesn’t it? Every single time. Once someone adds that word: conversation over, no conversation to be had.

    And by the way, how about that genocidal invasion of Israel on October 7th, 2023? Yeah, what a lot of Israeli’s call it. Because if Hamas had the means, they would have killed every Jew in Israel (and probably most of the Arab and Druid populations as well). I mean, it is in their charter, so you might want to take that ‘little detail’ seriously.

    You may ask yourself: why, back before there was a border wall around Gaza, back before the First Intifada (1987 – 38 years ago), back when residents of the Nagev Desert would regularly drive to Gaza to shop, or spend a day at the beach, did Israel not go in and and kill everyone in Gaza? Or why, if Israel is trying to genocide Gazans, did Israel not carpet-bomb Gaza and kill nearly everyone there in a matter of days? I doubt a couple hundred hostages would have mattered compared to finally achieving their goal of killing every last Gazan, such as is in the Israel charter . . . . . 😐

    Dark sarcasm aside, I am not an Israel apologist. I am not a fan of BB, not at all. I am against the settler movement, and I am against building the wall to weave across the armistice line to protect West Bank ‘settlers’.

    However, you can’t just live forever with an Iran-funded “government” on your border, lobbing rockets at you (over 20,000) and now we know intending to kill everyone in sight if they get through the wall. No government can just let that situation continue, and the military structure for that must be destroyed. Now, you can ask question is Israel should even exist, but it’s a little late for that, and is the only solution really to give Hamas governance from the Mediterranean to the Jordon?

    And what about all those pesky Jews? Where to they go, Sparky? Don’t say, “Eastern Europe” Sparky, as a good bit of the reason Ashkenazi Jews left is they weren’t feeling too welcome after WWII. And what of the fact that half of Israeli’s Jews were from other Middle Eastern countries that would not take them back now — where do THEY go, Sparky? And if you really want to send them “back” far enough, like a few thousand years back, they are just going to end up in Israel again . . . the “white”-appearing ones, the “brown”-appearing ones, the “black”-appearing ones. Most all of them.

    So, does it now just come down to who’s tribe is being gored? I hope not, but I fear so.

    1. Alan: I think what you’re running up against (to some degree) is that “privileged lives don’t matter”. (And it doesn’t actually matter if they’re privileged, or not.)

      Of course, there’s also a vast difference in the number of deaths, for each side. So maybe privilege does matter, after all.

      Strange, how I never heard of much sympathy for all the German civilians during and immediately-after WWII. Japanese and Italian lives, as well.

      Maybe some think that those civilian populations deserved it, for not getting rid of (and sometimes supporting) their own leaders. Same with Gaza?

      1. RO say: “Strange, how I never heard of much sympathy for all the German civilians during and immediately-after WWII. Japanese and Italian lives, as well.”

        Part of that may be as simple as “The war will not be televised”. Because, back then, there was no TV. Seeing the ravages of war is a relatively new phenomenon. Even back in Vietnam, it was a few famous images, such as the Vietnamese girl running from the napalm. Now the devastation and human suffering are televised. Or “YouTubevised”. What would the public have seen in WWII with the firebombings of German and Japanese cities? How would that have changed the war?

        RO say: ” I think what you’re running up against (to some degree) is that “privileged lives don’t matter” ”

        Strange how so many Jews that moved to Israel were dirt poor. Not all, but so many. Such as the Ethiopian Jews, or so many who came from camps after the Holocaust and had no home to return to. But, Israel is thriving, so with success comes envy, and with envy comes dehumanization of the succeeders. Crabs clawing at the escaping crabs.

        RO say: “So maybe privilege does matter, after all.”

        Certainly military might does “matter” in war.

    2. This is Malik Washington. At this point, Alan, over 46,000 Palestinians have been killed and I am not sure that number is accurate. I want to see a ceasefire; a release of the hostages; and no more babies dying of hypothermia in Gaza. Lastly, let’s give peace a chance.

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