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Hands Off Rally

Date

Saturday, April 5th, 2025

Location

Parkman Bandstand
139 Tremont Street, Boston, MA

Time

11:00am

Join us for the only official Hands Off! Boston event!

RALLY AND MARCH

11:00am - Music and chants at Parkman Bandstand, Boston Common 11:15am - March to City Hall Plaza 12:30pm - Speeches and music at City Hall Plaza

Hands off Boston! Hands off Massachusetts! Hands off America! The federal administration thinks this country belongs to them—and that they're above the law. They're taking everything they can get their hands on—our rights, our health care, our data, our jobs, our services—and daring the world to stop them. But as Mayor Wu put it — two weeks after standing up for Boston’s immigrants in Congress and one week after Boston became a sanctuary city for the LGBTQ+ community — “No one tells Boston how to take care of our own, not kings, and not presidents who think they are kings… God save whoever messes with Boston.”

On Saturday, April 5th, a coalition of Massachusetts resistance groups is taking to the streets to fight back with a clear message: Hands off! Because we will always protect our neighbors, regardless of their race, their gender or sexuality, where they were born, or their choice or lack of religion.

Senator Ed Markey called for 100,000 people on Boston Common to show that Massachusetts is ready to protect democracy—and we the people are ready to show up. We the people means EVERYBODY!

This is a nonviolent action. We expect ALL participants to remain peaceful and to try to de-escalate any potential confrontations.

Co-Sponsors: • Indivisible MA • Mass 50501 • Swing Blue Alliance • UU Mass Action • 350 MASS • Climate Action Now Western Mass • First Churches of Northampton Peace & Justice Action Team • Food Matters Multimedia • Franklin County Continuing the Political Revolution • Gloucester Democratic City Committee • Grassroots for Gun Violence Prevention • Indivisible Northampton • Jewish Climate Action Network - MA • League of Women Voters of Marblehead • Metro Boston Indivisible Coalition • Mothers Out Front Massachusetts • National Council of Jewish Women - Massachusetts • Progressive Massachusetts • Rise Up Western Mass Indivisible • Swing Left Western MA • Third Act MA • Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst • Vote4Change