Posted on 04/19/2020 2:33:26 PM PDT by TaxPayer2000
PHOENIX — Protesters rallied at the Arizona State Capitol Sunday morning, calling on state leaders to reopen the economy.
The group, called Operation Gridlock Arizona, organized the demonstration in recent days through a Facebook event page.
Similar rallies have been taking place across the U.S., including in Michigan, Texas, Wisconsin, and Nevada.
The protesters say states must reopen and allow people to get back to work after being ordered to shelter in place due to the coronavirus outbreak.
The Arizona group had asked for people to drive around the Capitol in downtown Phoenix near 17th Avenue and Adams Street to create a "gridlock."
The Facebook post requested that demonstrators remain in their vehicles as they rallied at the Capitol.
Earlier this week, President Donald Trump said he had the authority to force states to relax social distancing guidelines in order to re-open the U.S. economy. However, on Thursday, Trump said he would leave it to state governors to decide when they felt it would be appropriate to relax social distancing guidelines.
On Friday, Trump appeared to back those protesting social distancing orders by tweeting a series of messages calling for the "liberation" of states whose Democratic governors extended stay-at-home orders.
After all these decades of people protesting against the economy, did you ever think you’d see people protesting in favor of having one?
Wish I had known, I would have gone!
L8r
There was a total news/internet black-out out on this protest.
Like it never happened
Typed all kinds of search terms and ultimately found an obscure article when I typed “Patriot’s Day Rally”
There are no photo’s or video...
Beautiful to see, USAians doing what freedom loving people must do.
Demand your right to work, travel and pursue liberty!
Hope it opens soon, book flights to Sky Harbor moments ago, for mid-May
Local paper has it on its website.
100 cars...
Is that all
I live there and I do not see that much angst until the virus threat abates
Good Grief
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