#TeslaTakedown Movement: The Global Protest
“Sell your Teslas. Get rid of your shares. Stop Musk now...” This is the message of the #TeslaTakedown Movement on its website teslatakedown.com/. The initiative was born at the beginning of February and in less than a month it has gone global, to show the rejection of hundreds of thousands of citizens to the anti-democratic excesses of Elon Musk, owner of Tesla and who seems to be Trump’s ‘right-hand man’ in his attacks to civil rights.At the beginning of February, Joan Donovan encouraged demonstrations on Bluesky (@bostonjoan) against Musk at Tesla stores. Donovan holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of San Diego (California). Now, she’s a professor of Communication at Boston University and a researcher into disinformation and media manipulation.
Immediately, her friend, British American actor and film director Alex Winter (“Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure;” “The Lost Boys,” etc ...), asked her if they could create a website to attract organizers and expand the protests and this is how #TeslaTakedown was started. “I absolutely didn’t expect the impact of the #TeslaTakedown Movement to be so widespread and to grow so quickly,” Alex Winter told Sol de Medianoche. “I expected to take a day to protest and when I went to the nearest Tesla store on February 15th, I thought there would be no one there, except for one or two friends and myself. But there were more than eighty people and many thousands more came out across the country.” Alex Winter says that, although he is not sure if there is yet a presence of the #TeslaTakedown Movement in Alaska, “we are a grassroots protest, so anyone can easily organize a protest or initiative anywhere in the world on our website Teslatakedown.com, and there’s no reason why we shouldn’t do it if we haven’t already done so in this state.” Elon Musk already has at least six investigations open against his companies for allegedly benefiting from his position in the Trump Administration. It seems that while DOGE is laying off staff at NASA, his company SpaceX is making suspicious profits. Alex tells us that there is “a wealth of verifiable information about the crimes committed by Musk and DOGE on our website.” He also shows “how our initiative can cause real harm to Musk and his efforts and how to divest from Tesla.” But Musk isn’t the only danger to be neutralized. Other tycoons and politicians, such as JD Vance and Trump himself, threaten civil liberties and rights. How can they be stopped? “It’s not easy to stop this fascist coup,” says Winter. “It will take all hands-on deck from Congress and the general population. So the more people protesting, the more people becoming engaged, learning the facts and taking action, the better.” Anti-Musk rallies have already been massive in New York, Boston, Charlotte and Palo Alto, and more actions are planned for March in the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain, and Portugal. |