April 2. On Saturday, April 5, cities around the US will be part of a nationwide protest called “Hands Off,” organized by the Indivisible movement.
The demonstrations voice opposition to various policies enacted by the Trump administration, including DOGE led by Elon Musk.
Cornelius organizers plan to march Saturday from 11:30 am to 1 pm.
Details
The North Meck contingent will meet at the Cornelius Veterans Memorial behind Town Hall, then walk down Catawba Avenue to Smithville Park, passing local businesses, the Cornelius Library, Cornelius Elementary School, the Cain Center for the Arts and the Cornelius Police Department.
Marchers will carry “Hands Off!” signs expressing opposition to “government cuts and overreach.”
New: No permit was required by Cornelius Police.
The Charlotte protest will also take place Saturday, starting at 11 am at Mecklenburg County Dept. of Social Services, 301 Billingsley Road in Charlotte.
In 2020 we provided advance notice of the July 4 Trump Boat Parade on Lake Norman.
Is this a road closure, or a sidewalk situation? If a sidewalk, will they be told not to jay walk (since they will need to cross)? Will there be police? And if a counter protest was launched, say in front of the police station, would that violate any laws or rights?
Posted by Tom | March 31, 2025, 11:59 amGovernment spending and fraud has been out of control since Covid. These protestors want it to continue?
Amazing Dems loving criminals, crime and fraud.
Posted by BW | April 1, 2025, 11:42 amNo one is against cleaning up the system and addressing waste. NO ONE. The fraud, the complete destruction of our institutions, and constant lies are coming from Trump and Doge. Please seek out information beyond the propaganda bubble of Fox, News Max and the like. They’ve been manipulating and feeding you hatred of the left for decades. Yes to efficiency. Yes to a well run government. Yes to a compassionate government that serves its people as it was meant to do. Yes to free speech and peaceful protest. NO to a king. NO to an authoritarian regime!
Posted by Amy Taylor | April 2, 2025, 10:42 amYou are the one who is mis-informed. Clinton, Obama, and even Dementia Joe all said they were leading efforts to do the EXACT same thing as DOGE when they got into office, but it was all just talk. You can go back and watch the speeches/videos. DOGE is fully transparent using blockchain technology to show the US taxpayers, yes YOU TOO Liberals, the fraud and waste. So funny how the same people who loved Tesla and Elon when he was a Democrat, now turned on him for trying to help save our Republic from financial disaster. You realize we are 37 trillion in debt. Anytime the left doesn’t agree with the other side, they result in violence and destruction. Dem party got hijacked years ago… 23% approval rating and tanking…Wake up Sheep and know your fighting the wrong people…
Posted by Nancy $225million Pelosi | April 4, 2025, 9:26 amTransparency??? You call dismantling government agencies so it would open up the ability for master Soon to swoop up all his privatized contracts to line his own pocket,transparent. Gtfoh oh lets just get rid of the national satellite program and communications and nuclear oversight so that Mr DOGE can just simply replace it with his own kickbacks. You’re as dense as the rest of you’re friends on the hill. Are you attacking elmo, NPR, and public access because they decided they would be unbiased aswell. Or how about taking away benefits from families who can’t even afford to pay for basic commodities, let alone essential housing and utilities without living a literal paycheck and a half behind due to low invomr.wages !meanwhile your.so caller captains of industry just got the best break in history by pushing forward this fake tariff bill that literally makes the United States base consumer, pay their bottom line while the rest of is have to decide whether we can afford child care, fuel, and food over rent and power. You’re just as selfish as the rest of them.
Posted by Hiram | April 5, 2025, 9:56 amAnd the Hunter Biden Lap Top is Russian disinformation. COVID came from the Wet Market. Biden is running the country because he is coherent. Please save us your propaganda.
Posted by Kelly Harris | April 4, 2025, 9:29 amWell said. Thank you.
Posted by Charles D Fieselman | April 4, 2025, 3:14 pmYou are the people manipulating by your hard left media. The Biden administration almost destroyed our country. Immigration and spending was sucking the soul out of America. We finally have a man with the courage to stand up to the globalist that you love. The left is out to destroy our way of life. It’s so obvious how can you not see.
Posted by Roger Lee Jr | April 5, 2025, 12:15 pmYet you love the fact that there’s a felon in the White House House. Hypocrite. Fraud? 😂
Posted by Ann | April 4, 2025, 10:35 amYes. A felon because the left was willing to do anything including asassinate to stop our fearless leader. It should be obvious by what the left has done to try to stop him with lawfare. You will be grateful for trump someday.
Posted by Roger Lee Jr | April 5, 2025, 12:17 pmThe fraud is being committed by the recipients, NOT the Government staff. Any time someone like you says “it’s the Democrats”, you self identify as a mindless repeater of conspiracy. Use your brain, there just might be enough if it left to conjure up an original thought.
Posted by Pat Cripps | April 5, 2025, 10:04 amSo basically they are in support of waste fraud and abuse. It’s all on the Doge.gov website, which cuts in specific are they opposed to? Or is this just another attempt at virtue signaling?
Posted by Bradford Smith | April 1, 2025, 11:12 pmYes, let’s make cuts to cancer and other terminal disease research and deport the researchers and scientists, as well as the Dept. of Education, FAA, NIH, not to mention the stupidity of the tariffs. Did you see what the Market is doing? You probably don’t have any investments to care…SAD!
Posted by Beth | April 4, 2025, 10:39 amYes, we love fraud, waste, AND abuse. Seriously? If they’ve found any of that where is the actual proof? Not the list that THEY have published, but the actual proof. Where are the charges? Fraud is illegal, why has no one been charged? What we are ACTUALLY against are our rights being taken away. Hate, lies, and vitriol being spewed about marginalized communities. Someone that was NOT elected having our personal information and making decisions that affect our lives. We’re against people trying to take us back to the days that only straight, white, rich men were the only ones that had any power. We’re against men convicted of over 30 felonies and with MULTIPLE sexual abuse accusations running our country. We’re against a man trying to make every country our enemy. We’re against tariffs that have, historically, NEVER worked. But, yeah, go ahead and think it’s ALL about fraud, waste, and abuse in the government, which there is also ZERO proof of (incidentally, I work in fraud, waste, and abuse in healthcare so I know a thing or two about that, too).
Posted by JM | April 2, 2025, 10:55 amJim, I understand the healthcare waste and loony reasoning. Have your stomach reduced in size via surgery with lifetime medication (approx $1000@ year) needed for $250,000-300,000 was the offer when I wanted my ozempic approved which would be, at my age 10 years at $1200/year= $120,000 and I may not need it that long. And the insurance appeal agreed with this craziness.
Posted by red neck billie | April 4, 2025, 11:39 amfederal Department of Education. Jimmy Carter really fixed the schools. LoL.
Posted by CommieLib | April 4, 2025, 8:38 pmThese protesters are the same people that believe that the covid shot cured covid. And that the border was secure under biden. Who is brain washed? New York changed the statute of limitations for one year in new york to go after Trump on the Bogus sex case then a judge whos daughter was involved in democratic fund raising changes misdemeanors into felonys. You had ny attorney General who campaigned That she would get trump. These protesters are blinded by TDS and now EDS. I think they eventually come around. Most are smart people. We welcome all of you.
Posted by Rick | April 4, 2025, 10:19 pmLiterally NO ONE believes that the “covid shot” aka the vaccine for the covid virus “cures” Covid. Like every other vaccine, it reduces the likelihood that you would get or spread Covid, and if you DO get it, it wouldn’t be as severe. Trump started Project Warp Speed to develop the vaccines, and it was a success. Why won’t you just take the win? Because you don’t like being told what to do by a LIBERAL (Biden). If Trump had mandated the vaccine and masking, I’m sure MAGA would have been fine with it.
Posted by Chris | April 6, 2025, 9:37 amYou’re moving the goalposts. Of course no one believes it, yet our leaders mandated it. The point is they push their narratives. For the record, I can’t see Trump mandating the vaccine. Not his style.
Posted by Follow the money | April 7, 2025, 10:12 pmAll we want to do is save our democracy– and social security, medicare benefits and veterans’ benefits from the reckless, chainsaw wielding Elon Musk. You do still believe in the right of free speech, don’t you? ( Amendment #1 to the Constitution)
Posted by Charles W Flynn | April 5, 2025, 8:20 amHas anyone thought of the Fraud being committed by fake protesters being paid by Indivisible to show up?
Posted by Alan | April 5, 2025, 1:58 pmYes, we thought about it and realized it was nonsense. Our protesters aren’t being paid, and we don’t need to be.
Posted by C.L. Steiner | April 5, 2025, 7:24 pmThe same people who brought us:
– The Hunter laptop is Russian disinformation
– The Covid virus came from a wet market
– Joe Biden is mentally fit
– The Covid vaccine will stop the spread of Covid
– The Steele dossier is true
– Harris is ahead in the polls
are now telling us that “unelected officials” are making decisions in Washington and going after Healthcare and SS?
Most decisions made in the actual daily operations of government are by unelected government employees. Many policy decisions are made by appointed (not elected) officials.
Far more likely that the bureaucrats in Washington screaming about DOGE are worried about their personal gravy trains being cancelled. Too many people getting rich being so called “public servants”.
Don’t believe what you see in the legacy media. Follow the money and you’ll find the truth. I’m not a Trump lover, but I’ve waiting for someone to shine a light in the dark corners of Washington for a long time. Hard to see any logical reason for not supporting DOGE unless you’re bought into the legacy media narrative.
Posted by Follow the money | April 5, 2025, 2:34 pmGood to know MAGA cult peeps are ingesting other news sources. Also, thank you for telling me what I believe and what I stand for since you don’t believe even know me. Nice to meet you! We have no political affiliation (left or right) we are protesting for our basic human rights and yours too. Oh and we are not paid! Thank you for the support!
Posted by John | April 5, 2025, 4:59 pmThere is one thing on which people on the Left and the Right agree entirely. We all look around and think, “WTF is happening to our country?”
The reason for this is that this is not a Left/Right issue. We are being led to fight each other while the oligarchy takes full advantage. It’s not a political struggle; it’s a class struggle, and unless you’re a billionaire, we will all suffer.
Posted by C.L. Steiner | April 5, 2025, 7:28 pm