Mass protests are scheduled across Riverside County Saturday to push back against the Trump administration’s spending cuts and mass layoffs.
The Indivisible movement and Courageous Resistance of the Desert will host ”Hands Off!” protests in Riverside, Temecula, Murrieta, Palm Springs and San Jacinto Saturday.
The locations and times are as follows:
— Palm Springs City Hall, 3200 E. Tahquitz Canyon Way in Palm Springs from 10 a.m.;
— Market Street at University Avenue in Riverside from 6:30 p.m. until 8 p.m.;
— 40735 Murrieta Hot Springs Road in Murrieta from noon until 2 p.m.;
— Eagle Drive at West Community Drive, across from Carl Quandt Stadium, in San Jacinto from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m.;
— 28250 Rancho California Road, Temecula Duck Pond, from noon until 3 p.m.
Similar demonstrations will be held across Southern California and nationwide, and will feature numerous organizations including the League of Women Voters, Planned Parenthood Action Fund and the ACLU, according to the Hands Off! website.
“Over a half a million Americans are taking to the streets at more than 1,200 nationwide events,” according to Indivisible social media.
“Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. We’re taking to the streets nationwide to fight back with a clear message: `Hands Off!’,” according to the Indivisible of the Desert website.
Online registration must be completed at handsoff2025.com.
Trump has yet to personally comment on what organizers are calling a “mass mobilization day,” but the White House announced it is rescheduling one of its annual spring garden tour dates Saturday due to the large anti-Trump demonstration expected to take place near 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
“Anyone who thinks protests, lawsuits, and lawfare will deter President Trump must have been sleeping under a rock for the past several years,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement to USA Saturday. “President Trump will not be deterred from delivering on the promises he made to make our federal government more efficient and more accountable to the hardworking American taxpayers across the country who overwhelmingly re-elected him.”