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Outraged by Elon Musk’s devastating contributions to the Trump administration, tens of thousands worldwide held “Tesla Takedown” protests at over 200 locations on Saturday.
Protests began the day in front of Tesla showrooms in Australia and New Zealand. They then rippled across Europe, including Finland, Norway, Denmark, Germany, France, the Netherlands, and the UK. In the US, protests occurred in nearly every state, including the northeast, south, midwest, and west coast.
“Elon Musk is destroying our democracy, and he’s using the fortune he built at Tesla to do it,” organizers wrote on Action Network, which has an interactive map of the protest sites. “We are taking action at Tesla to stop Musk’s illegal coup.”
Organizers also have a message for people with ties to the company: “Sell your Teslas, dump your stock, join the picket lines.”
Since Musk began dismantling the federal bureaucracy as chief of President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), critics have protested at Tesla facilities and posted videos about selling their vehicles on social media.
While protesting at the Tesla dealership in west London, Louise Cobbett-Witten told The Guardian: “It’s too overwhelming to do nothing. There is real solace in coming together like this. Everyone has to do something. We haven’t got a big strategy besides just standing on the side of the street, holding signs and screaming.”
Alainn Hanson, of Washington, DC, brought her mother from Minnesota to their first Tesla protest. She told CNN: “I’m sick of billionaires trampling over working class people.”
Here are some of Saturday’s actions:
Saint Petersburg, Florida
Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Washington, DC
Tucson, Arizona
Manlius, New York
Salt Lake City, Utah
Vancouver, British Columbia
Chicago, Illinois
And in London, England
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