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鈥淚'm 74 years old," she said, "and I didn't think I鈥檇 have to be demonstrating again to save my country."

Wiping a tear from beneath her eye, she continued: "We might lose our democracy.鈥�

That鈥檚 why Weisand, alongside more than 150 others, participated in a pro-democracy rally Friday at the New York State Equal Rights Heritage Center in downtown Auburn.聽

鈥淚'm thankful for people that are standing up,鈥� Weisand told 人兽性交. 鈥淚'm thankful for these kinds of things where people just get out and protest.鈥澛�

The rally was organized by Indivisible Cayuga, a local nonpartisan volunteer organization that, according to its mission statement, is committed to 鈥減ushing back on attacks on the services and freedoms we hold dear here in Cayuga County.鈥澛�

Rebecca Ruggles, who helped organize the demonstration in Auburn with Indivisible Cayuga, said it was one of about 1,000 May Day rallies across the nation and was meant to push back against what she called the federal government鈥檚 war on the worker.聽

鈥淚t's up to the people to say, 'Enough is enough,'鈥� Ruggles told 人兽性交.聽

鈥淭his isn't what we've signed up for. Even the people who voted for Trump are not happy with the amount of threats to workers and jobs.鈥�

'Trump wants to be a king'

Brian Teucke, a representative for聽Service Employees International Union Local 200, expressed concern about how Trump鈥檚 executive orders will affect labor unions.

鈥淛ust like Hitler did on this day, May 2, 1933, Trump has tried to cancel and outlaw federal unions,鈥� Teucke told 人兽性交.聽

Specifically, Teucke mentioned a March executive order limiting certain federal employees' rights to collective bargaining.聽

鈥淚 know he's coming for our public sector unions and eventually our private sector unions,鈥� added Teucke.聽

Protesters brandishing political signs and posters lined the sidewalk of South Street facing Memorial City Hall and waved at cars as they passed by.聽

Ed Randolph, whose sign read, 鈥淲e are better than this,鈥� believes that Trump threatens the American way of life.聽

鈥淭here's no United States right now,鈥� Randolph told 人兽性交. 鈥淭rump wants to be a king now, not a president of the people.鈥�

Some motorists responded to the signs with honks and waves, and others echoed the protesters.聽

At one point two women stuck their torsos out of their vehicle鈥檚 windows, flashed their middle fingers and yelled, 鈥淔--k Donald Trump!" as they passed through the intersection of South and Lincoln streets.

But others voiced their objections to the rally, such as one man who rolled down the window of his black Chevrolet as he drove by and yelled, 鈥淒emocrats aren鈥檛 Americans.鈥澛�

Another man, wearing a red "Make America Great Again" hat in the passenger seat of a sedan, shouted 鈥淢AGA bitch,鈥� and 鈥淢AGA motherf--ker,鈥� before holding a fist beneath his eye and making crying noises as he was driven away.聽

'Declaring war on information'

Janet Reohr, a member of Indivisible Cayuga, said Trump's proposed cuts to Medicaid ($880 billion) and the聽Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ($230 billion) have made her question the future of other social service programs, like Social Security.聽

鈥淚 paid into it for 40 years and I would like to see the ability to keep using it over the years,鈥� Reohr told 人兽性交.聽

鈥淚 have family members who I'm concerned about, one is in a nursing home. I can't afford to pay for him if he's not being covered by Medicare.鈥�

The Rev. Ben Fitzgerald-Fye, minister of Scipioville Presbyterian Church and a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, told 人兽性交 he was protesting because he worries how Trump鈥檚 rhetoric and policy might affect immigrants and others in his community.聽

鈥淚f we believe Jesus meant what he said, then we have to care about marginalized people,鈥� Fitzgerald-Fye said. 鈥淚'm not thrilled about the way that we're demonizing transgender folks right now and I just think it's time for the church to say, 'Enough is enough.'鈥�

Fitzgerald-Fye also brought up Trump鈥檚 budget proposal to completely defund Head Start, a program that provides more than 300 Cayuga County children with early education opportunities.聽

鈥淚 believe what we're doing is declaring war on information,鈥� Fitzgerald-Fye said. 鈥淢ore importantly though, we're robbing our children and our citizens of just the basic skills to live as a human.鈥�

Auburn City Councilor Terry Cuddy, who attended the rally, said the Thursday cutting federal aid to National Public Radio and PBS threatens free speech.聽

鈥淚'm here to exercise free speech and support everyday people,鈥� Cuddy told 人兽性交. 鈥淭here's so many things that make America what it is, and freedom of speech is the most important.鈥澛�

Ruggles said Indivisible Cayuga and its 220-plus members across Cayuga County will continue to push back against the Trump administration through such public demonstrations.聽

鈥淲e're in the heart of New York, where people have fought for centuries for their rights,鈥� she said. "So we're on the right side of history, and we're going to win.鈥�