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"President Donald Trump’s policies spark protests in multiple US cities on Labor Day"

apnews.com/article/protests-tr

"Protesters took to the streets in multiple U.S. cities on Labor Day to criticize President Donald Trump and demand a living wage for workers."

Demonstrators protest against President Donald Trump's use of federal law enforcement and National Guard troops in the city during a rally at Union Station, Monday, Sept. 1, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
AP News · Anti-Trump protests held in Chicago, New York, San Francisco and Washington D.C.By Melina Walling

For those of you out there who have gotten so dejected with #Florida and #RedState politics ruining the U.S.A. that you wanted to kick us out, here is your joyful reminder that there are good people doing the work. Today I went and took pictures after a peaceful protest that saw 3 blocks of Central Avenue in St. Petersburg centered on a pride rainbow painted intersection chalked with more rainbows and retribution for DeSantis and Trump than one could count.

On Friday, on my way home from work, the Florida Department of Transportation was surrounded by cops as they painted over an artistic, apolitical mural at an intersection adjacent to our campus. I rolled down the window, gave a thumbs down, and booed. The police wished me a nice weekend. Later, two reverends were arrested for kneeling and praying on a Black Lives Matter mural across town that the governor had ordered painted over. I posted on Next Door. My suspicions that most are not ready to rise up to this moment were corroborated by the myriad responses cheering on a rogue government preventing speech in small communities.

#USPol
#FloridaFascism
#DeSantis
#StreetArt
#RadicalGraffiti
#protest

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"Oregonians gather across the state for Labor Day protests"

opb.org/article/2025/09/01/lab

"In Portland, a large crowd assembled to rally and march downtown at Tom McCall Waterfront Park as part of the “Workers Over Billionaires” protests taking place across the country in opposition to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, as well as pushing for more workers rights and reinvestment in social services like health care."

OPB · Oregonians gather across the state for Labor Day protestsIn Portland, a large crowd assembled to rally and march downtown at Tom McCall Waterfront Park as part of the “Workers Over Billionaires” protests taking place across the country. Similar demonstrations were set up in Salem, Bend, Hood River and elsewhere.

There are 427 days until the Midterms, 1162 days until the next theoretical Presidential Election, and 1236 days until the next optional Inauguration Day. Midterms progress: ███▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ 34% Presidency/Regime progress: █▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ 16% Until Next Inauguration : █▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ 15% #protest

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A quotation from Victor Hugo

We might have understood and admired in him protest in the name of legality and liberty, proud opposition, legitimate but perilous resistance to the all-powerful Napoleon. But what pleases us in the treatment of those on their way up is less pleasing in the treatment of those on their way down. We approve of fighting only so long as there is danger, and in any case only those who fought in the first instance have the right to be exterminators at the last. He who has not been a persistent opponent in times of prosperity should remain silent when the downfall comes. Challenging success gives the only legitimacy to prosecuting failure.
 
[Nous eussions compris et admiré la protestation au nom du droit et de la liberté, l’opposition fière, la résistance périlleuse et juste à Napoléon tout-puissant. Mais ce qui nous plaît vis-à-vis de ceux qui montent nous plaît moins vis-à-vis de ceux qui tombent. Nous n’aimons le combat que tant qu’il y a du danger ; et, dans tous les cas, les combattants de la première heure ont seuls le droit d’être les exterminateurs de la dernière. Qui n’a pas été accusateur opiniâtre pendant la prospérité doit se taire devant l’écroulement. Le dénonciateur du succès est le seul légitime justicier de la chute.]

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
Les Misérables, Part 1 “Fantine,” Book 1 “An Upright Man,” ch. 11 (1.1.11) (1862) [tr. Donougher (2013)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/hugo-victor/78713/

"House Rs are calling for a🚨$13.7B cut in spending in the FY2026 Labor-HHS-Ed funding bill.

The Labor Dept budget would be cut by 28%. HHS would get a $7B cut (6%). Ed Dept cut by $12B (15%)

No funding for PBS or Corp for Public Broadcasting

NIH would be funded at $48B, basically level with FY2025

AmeriCorps becomes "America First Corps"

Head Start & Child Care & Devel Block Grants are kept at same funding levels"
-J Bresnahan
#Austerity #Trumpcession #Economy #GOPDeathCult #Protest #USPol

There are 428 days until the Midterms, 1163 days until the next theoretical Presidential Election, and 1237 days until the next optional Inauguration Day. Midterms progress: ███▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ 34% Presidency/Regime progress: █▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ 16% Until Next Inauguration : █▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ 15% #protest

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If there are a question why Indonesians protesting in recent days, here's the list what we demand to our government.

If there are a (staged) demonstration, out from this list, we can guess thats a provocateur.

As long as the demands isn't fulfilled by our government, we can guess we still have some of series of protest and demonstration in near futures.

English translation in ALT text. This posters has been reposted by multiple Indonesian netizens across social media.