Welcome to the show.

If you haven't heard what is happening this weekend, you need to.

April 5th could be huge.

We're talking about potentially millions of people mobilizing across the country.

These are called the hands- off protests. And this is the

same progressive coalition to a degree that came together after the 2016 election when Donald

Trump was elected. This time, these protests are going to be targeting really sort of like a

fresh round of authoritarian style policy

changes these executive orders, the sweeping government cuts, the Doge stuff headed at least

for a few more weeks by none other than Elon Musk. By the way, Doge may not even exist come June

1st. And we're going to talk about that a little bit later in the show as well. I am both

extraordinarily inspired to see that these protests are happening and I also have some words of caution.

You know, one of the things I talk about in my book, the echo machine is that there are forms of activism that historically have been shown

to be effective.

When mass rallies happen in urban centers, especially numerous urban centers across the country,

they get noticed.

And this is one of the most effective forms of protest historically.

We vote. Does signing petitions do much? I don't

think so, especially not online petitions. Signing to put things on the ballot locally, that's one

thing. Signing online petitions, I don't think it's very high up. It's certainly not high up on my

list. Calling elected officials. Yes, absolutely. But what are the forms of protests that have been demonstrated really to affect change historically?

And mass rallies at urban centers are one of them.

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