Dana Lyons, from Bellingham, sang this song at the No Kings Rally yesterday in Everett.
This is Dana Lyons Bio from his Cows with Guns website. The Bellingham Herald calls him "a current day Pete Seeger" and there's a picture of him with Jane Goodall...so pretty cool, I think.
The drone videos from KOMO TV were taken before the full crowd showed up. It turned out to be an impressive group of pedestrians lining Broadway and people in cars driving on Broadway honking horns and waving signs to show their support.
I was at the protest when Trump showed up in Everett back in 2016. The mayor was there and various people I knew from school functions and church. In 2016 there were agent provocateurs wandering around the crowd trying to incite violence.
In 2016 it was obvious someone had put money into the MAGA "supporters" roaming around in the crowd, as well as the ones who came in big pickup trucks wrapped in MAGA propaganda...pictures of Trump looking like Rambo etc.. Wrapping a pickup truck can run to $6000 for custom images and messages...so somebody had some money to burn.
Yesterday's No Kings rallies were a bit of hope in this sometimes not so Beautiful World. We have given way to much blood and treasure fighting the fascists to give up now.
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Something is very very wrong in a country that elects a President who is a draft dodging felon, the son of a racist evil father, and grandson of a draft dodger.
Of all the negative impacts that this cult of personality has had on our country one of the most troubling is economic.
In countries where people are not subject to American-style propaganda, it is obvious that our great country is slipping into an authoritarian kleptocracy.
These people, who are aware how far America has devolved, are deciding they don't want to come to school here, visit here, work in our hospitals or research faculties, orchards and farms. They don't want to start businesses here or invest here. That's a problem.
