JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Dozens of protesters gathered near the St. Johns Town Center on Monday morning for a demonstration dubbed “Workers Over Billionaires.”
On Labor Day, protesters lined the sidewalk along Town Center Parkway, holding signs that denounced President Donald Trump’s administration and called for unity.
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“I think we’re losing our rights as citizens,” Millie Gunell said. “If we don’t band together, I think there’s a really good chance that we are going to lose our democracy, and this country will not be the country that we have always thought it to be.”
Many people driving by the demonstration honked to show support for the protest’s cause.
Monday’s protest in Jacksonville joined dozens of other protests that were held nationwide on Labor Day, organized by the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, the largest federation of labor unions in the U.S.
Allen Tilley said he decided to attend Monday’s protest to join the community in expressing their opinion “that the country is headed in the wrong direction.”
“In fact, we need to go partly back to where we came from, and partly into a new kind of organization that actually enacts the will of the people,” Tilley said.