[dropcap size=big]A[/dropcap]fter an exhausting few months between the United States Congress and President Donald J. Trump over his involvement in soliciting Ukraine’s help in the 2020 election, a couple of hundred people came yesterday out to protest the impeachment acquittal of our President at City Hall in downtown Los Angeles.
Along with this one, nationwide protests were planned in major cities across the United States including in New York, Chicago, Miami, and Seattle. There were more than 200 coordinated actions planned for Wednesday evening across the country organized by countless progressive grassroots organizations. Tonight's protest in Los Angeles was spearheaded by the Greater Los Angeles Indivisible Coalition, RefuseFacism.org, and other groups.
“If thousands start getting in the streets in meaningful opposition, not just one day…it can inspire people who are afraid of what Trump supporters will do to them,” said Refuse Facism member Atlas Winfrey, who later gave a powerful speech encouraging the crowd to act now. “[Trump supporters] are vicious, they are ready to go to civil war and our people are trying to fight back with tweets and that’s not going to cut it.”