Homer Participates in Nationwide HANDS OFF! Rally
By Hal Shepherd
In just the first two months of its reign, the second Trump administration has managed to outdo all the corruption, peddling, and outright criminality which has occurred throughout American presidential history. According to High Country News, Trump and Elon Musk have engaged in “an unmitigated assault on democracy, the rule of law, public lands, the federal government, and the American people that is genuinely unprecedented in its scope and audacity.”
Alaska is already feeling the effects of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the agencies that oversee our national parks, forests, and rangelands — public lands and environmental protection that encompass 62% percent of the state’s landmass and upon which rural economies rely on for traditional and subsistence uses. It has frozen conservation funding and fired thousands of federal employees, threatening clean energy and climate adaptation projects. Some of these moves have been blocked, but real damage has been done[1]
Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. Based on a desire for revenge against political opponents and to create maximum shock and awe, they're taking everything they can get their hands on—our health care, our data, our jobs, our services, our natural resources—and daring anyone to stop them. This is a crisis, and the time to act is now.
🚨 April 5th, Homer is fighting back with a clear message: “HANDS OFF”! 🚨
HANDS OFF is a nationwide rally rejecting the corruption, lawlessness, and predatory politics of the Trump-Musk administration. Some of the key messages are:
§ These Are Our Services, Our Jobs, Our Dollars: Everyone deserves good jobs, reliable services, and a fair economy—but Trump, Musk, and their billionaire buddies are destroying livelihoods, gutting environmental protections, and driving up costs just to pad their own pockets.
§ They’re Coming For All of Us: No matter what issues matter to you, you have a dog in this fight. The things you hold precious are absolutely on the chopping block for Trump, Musk, and congressional Republicans.
§ We Have The Power: This fight is just beginning, and we’re mobilizing to jumpstart the opposition. Together, we have the power to stop this takeover.
This Cannot Be Business As Usual: We are facing an unconstitutional threat to our country and our freedoms through an illegal power grab and our elected officials are doing nothing to stop it. Now is the time to make our voices heard and demand that our lawmakers use their power to hold Trump and Musk accountable.
Please bring signs that express your outrage and disappointment-as we are all Americans.
Check out handsoff2025.com for more information.
Time: Saturday, April 5; 11 – 2pm
Location WKFL Park, 491 E. Pioneer Ave, Homer, AK
[1] High Country News, The West Needs You (March 28, 2025).
I was looking at a map of Hands Off! demonstrations and it occurred to me if all the people in cities would simultaneous converge peacefully, but prepared, to all the rural areas we could end all this right now.
Remember the Trump Train Caravans of 2016?
That, only in reverse. Bring the city to the country en masse to give my neighbors a lesson in population distribution and density.
Bravo, Hal. Bob and I as well as several of my family members will participate in this event in Denver area next Saturday. We are all very concerned, actually alarmed is a better word to describe our outrage at what's going on in this administration.