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Hundreds protest Tesla in Vallejo – Signs for our Times

UPDATE: Another protest of Musk at Tesla in Vallejo, Sat March 22

Photo by Roger Straw

By Roger Straw for the BenIndy, March 15, 2025

Today, a “Tesla Takedown” protest estimated at nearly two hundred gathered outside Vallejo’s Tesla Dealer on Admiral Callahan Lane. Protesters lined the sidewalk in front of Tesla and all the way up to Applebees. A group also formed on the opposite side of the street in front of Share Tea.

Protesters flew U.S. flags and a Ukranian flag, and held up a dazzling display of signs…

    • NO ONE ELECTED MUSK – STOP THE COUP
    • NO KINGS, NO TYRANNY, NO TESLA
    • MUSK is a RAT!
    • FIRE FELON
    • NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW
    • ECO TRAITOR
    • ELON MUSK MUST STOP THE CUTS
    • BOYCOTT GroTESqueLA
    • DELETE DOGE DEPORT ELON
    • STOP THE OLIGARCHY
    • HANDS OFF OUR NATIONAL PARKS & SOCIAL SECURITY
    • FIGHT FACISM

One sign was directed at our elected Republican leaders: IF YOU HONOR YOUR OATH, UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION.

Another summed up our current federal disaster-in-progress: SUPER CALLOUS FRAGILE RACIST SEXIST NAZI PSYCHOPATHS.

One guy with a bullhorn chanted repeatedly, “Elon wants to go to Mars, we don’t want to buy his cars.”

Organizers of the nationwide peaceful Tesla Takedown Movement are asking concerned Americans to “Sell Your Teslas, Dump Your Stock, and Stop Musk Now.”

Local organizers include Vallejo-Benicia Indivisible. Today’s protesters came away with instructions to gather again next Saturday, March 22, at 11am.

See also:
Posted here previously…
WHY PROTEST TESLA?
  • Protests against Tesla have intensified globally in response to CEO Elon Musk’s involvement with the Donald Trump administration’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). It is important for the public to raise voices of protest
  • concerning the role Tesla’s unelected billionaire owner, Elon Musk, is playing in the Trump administration.
  • Note also that Tesla employees have reported poor treatment and policies, resulting in a high injury rate, with some having faced sexual harassment, racism, and union-busting incidents. Tesla’s environmental practices, use of cryptocurrencies, and compliance with open source licenses have been mentioned by critics. [wikipedia]
 Where?

Vallejo Tesla Dealership, 1001 Admiral Callaghan Ln, Vallejo, CA 94591

Have fun making signs! Here are some great ideas for signs. (Using the search engine DuckDuckGo)

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#PresidentMusk, DOGE, Elon Musk, Tesla

ALERT! Join the protest of Elon Musk at Tesla in Vallejo this Saturday March 15

Tesla Takedown Vallejo
This Saturday March 15 at 11 AM
1001 Admiral Callaghan Lane, Vallejo

WHY PROTEST TESLA?
  • Protests against Tesla have intensified globally in response to CEO Elon Musk’s involvement with the Donald Trump administration’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). It is important for the public to raise voices of protest concerning the role Tesla’s unelected billionaire owner, Elon Musk, is playing in the Trump administration.
  • Note also that Tesla employees have reported poor treatment and policies, resulting in a high injury rate, with some having faced sexual harassment, racism, and union-busting incidents. Tesla’s environmental practices, use of cryptocurrencies, and compliance with open source licenses have been mentioned by critics. [wikipedia]
 Where?

Vallejo Tesla Dealership, 1001 Admiral Callaghan Ln, Vallejo, CA 94591

Have fun making signs! Here are some great ideas for signs. (Using the search engine DuckDuckGo)

More locally:
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#PresidentMusk, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Journalism

Breaking News: Elon Musk has bought the North Pole and installed himself as Santa

A Nerd Reich holiday reading

By Gil Duran, The Nerd Reich, 23 Dec 2024

Breaking News: Elon Musk has bought the North Pole and installed himself as Santa.
A few weeks ago, I wrote about “President Musk” and his current effort to take over the US government. In recent days, #PresidentMusk has been trending on social media – not because of anything I’ve written, but because Musk has gone out of his way to make it crystal clear that he sees himself as the real president.

Donald Trump has even been forced to address the issue, assuring his supporters that Musk can never be president because he was born in South Africa. So, all this talk of President Musk is reaching Trump’s ears – and getting on Trump’s nerves.

Musk has lots of money, but very little self control. He needs to be the center of attention, all day, every day. But Trump has the same obsessive need to dominate, so I expect fireworks ahead. I’ll have more to say on that, soon.

Covering President Musk

Speak of the Devil: Journalist Jennifer Schulze interviewed me on the subject of how reporters should cover Musk. From the interview:

Musk has a talent for turning everything into a joke or a meme, but he is a fountain of disinformation and propaganda, and his plans are deadly serious. If journalism wishes to survive, it must evolve to cover these kinds of threats. Musk can no longer be covered as an eccentric tech CEO, and it’s unethical to give a known propagandist the benefit of the doubt.  To cover him accurately and honestly, he must be treated as an existential threat to democracy, free speech and truth. Because that’s what he is.

One of the biggest mistakes the press makes is forgetting that Musk is an enemy of free speech. He pretends to be a champion, and they repeat his false claim like fools. But the first thing he did after buying Twitter was ban a bunch of journalists (including me) for no reason. He is suppressing voices with which he disagrees and boosting those that parrot his beliefs. He regularly does that which he accuses others of doing. So when he calls others the enemies of free speech, he is telling on himself.

Read the whole column here: “Welcome to the United States of Elon” in the Heartland Signal.