Demonstrators dance to colourful anti-Musk protest in Washington

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Dancing to the heavy beat of pop music, about 100 people staged a colourful protest against Department of Government Efficiency head and Tesla owner Elon Musk outside a Tesla dealership in Washington, DC - one of several dozen demonstrations advertised in the US, western Europe, Australia and New Zealand.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00What's happening here is that U.S. citizens are exercising their free speech in a peaceful

00:26way to protest what's happening with Elon Musk and Donald Trump and the undermining

00:31of our democracy, the cutting of services, the cutting of foreign aid, the cutting of

00:35free speech, the threatening of judges, and all the things that are happening that are

00:41undermining democracy in our place in the world.

00:45We are protesting this authoritarian regime with joy.

00:51One of the things that authoritarians like to do is to squash dissent.

00:56They like to put in salt and still fear.

00:59And we have no fear because we are free, we are Americans, we have our First Amendment

01:03rights, and we are just coming out with joy and showing other people that they're not

01:10alone.

01:11Elon Musk has given us a gift of almost 300 locations all over the country that we can

01:15show up on a Saturday morning and protest.

01:18It's as simple as that.

01:19It's a very simple, grassroots, peaceful, organic movement.

01:25And we don't have to get a permit because we're on our public sidewalks and we don't

01:31have to do a lot of planning for people to show up.

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