Members of the Arms Off protest took to the streets throughout main roadways on Lengthy Island, together with 347 in Port Jefferson Station.
Michael Malaszczyk
Protestors took the streets throughout Lengthy Island to precise their dissatisfaction with President Donald Trump – notably in response to his latest tariffs.
The organizing group Arms Off held quite a few protests in each Nassau and Suffolk – Mineola, Riverhead, Patchogue, Sag Harbor, Port Jefferson Station, Greenport, East Hampton, and Farmingville.
The protestors’ chants – and the honking horns of assist and opposition – dominated main roadways.
A poster decrying Trump administration cuts to a number of authorities companies.Michael Malaszczyk
On the Port Jefferson Station protest, a whole lot gathered throughout the intersections of County Street 347, Route 112, and Canal Street.
“The history of our country is to support its citizens, and that is what we are hoping will happen,” Judy Black of the North Brookhaven Democratic Membership stated on the Port Jefferson Station protest. “These are peaceful protests across New York State, across Long Island, across the country, and we really want our government to work for the people that it represents. It is not to represent the very wealthy.”
Along with Trump, protestors took intention at Elon Musk, Trump’s senior advisor and de facto head of the Division of Authorities Effectivity.
“The people who bought Teslas like myself, are people who all support the environment,” protestor Ken Rosenblatt stated. “We’re environmentalists. We’re doing things for clean air. It was great. What he did at that point in time was fantastic, but somehow or another, he went off, whether it’s a mental thing or whatever it might be, he went off to the crazy side. The people who are working for Tesla are good, working American people. But what [Musk] is doing to this country is just the opposite of all the people who supported him, who bought stock in the company and all the rest. He has turned his back on the people who got him to where he is today.”
Others identified the speedy tempo the Trump administration seems to be transferring at to implement its agenda.
“More than 50% of the American voting population did not vote for Donald Trump, and every day he does more and more damage to the great nation that we are,” Dee Hansen, president of the North Brookhaven Democratic Committee, stated. “And we’re out here to say, no, we don’t believe in his policies. We want them to change. We want them to stop. Not only does it hurt individuals, it hurts families. It hurts the nation.”
Varied different teams arrived on the Port Jefferson Station protest to point out their assist, together with the Islip-Smithtown Department of the Nationwide Affiliation for the Development of Coloured Individuals (NAACP).
Linda Spahr and Joe Lescinski of the Islip-Smithtown Department of the NAACP.Michael Malaszczyk
“We don’t like the way the direction of the country is going at this point,” Joe Lescinski, a member, stated. “The idea of so many rights being ignored, being taken away, people losing their jobs, people being deported without legitimacy, including the poor man that’s sitting in a jail down in Central America wrongly Yes, and and the other things – the wholesale cuts in education, the Environmental Protection Agency, we’re just concerned we’re going down a direction we should not be moving in, and it’s certainly not reflective of the democratic values in this country.”
A noteworthy attendee on the Port Jefferson Station protest was Dave Calone, who ran for Suffolk County Govt in 2023 as a Democrat, shedding to present County Govt Ed Romaine. Calone known as for Romaine to face up towards the nationwide Republican Occasion.
“He’s the kind of person who understands what’s happening,” Calone stated of Romaine. “I know he understands that families are being squeezed here on Long Island and in Suffolk County because of the Trump tax policies and because of these tariffs. And I would love to see him stand up and hold his own party accountable for this. I think he he knows it, and I think he can do it, and his voice would be respected and heard.”
Protestors on 347 in Port Jefferson Station.
