#grassroots-movement

#grassroots-movement

Boxes filled with tchotchkes that visitors exchange for their own trinkets are popping up everywhere. Emerging in the US last autumn (Philadelphia had one of the first using a ready-made electrical junction box, a popular format), they're a new iteration of a phenomenon that started with Little Free Libraries and diversified during the pandemic into myriad neighbourhood installations.

"People are going to come out when they can, at night, whenever the police aren't here, painting their street. They're going to take back their heritage."

Organizers of No Kings Day say they're not gathering to feed his ego, but rather building a grassroots movement to stop his policies and politics.

We feel there are a lot of people who have been part of the Republican Party in the past but don't feel there is a place for them anymore, or for people who have traditional conservative values, and they don't see MAGA as being the same.