Approximately one dozen or so Islesboro residents joined millions of U.S. citizens and others around the globe Saturday to express their deep concern about President Trump and his chief advisor Elon Musk’s dictatorial attempt to demolish democracy. 

The Islesboro protest was part of the global “Hands Off” rejection of Trump’s authoritarian power grab coordinated by a national group called Indivisible and that supports several local teams in Maine.

Locally organized by Shar Piper and Sally Mitchell, the group walked from the Islesboro Town Office to the Boardman Cottage, past the Post Office, down Mill Creek Road and back again. With signs “mourning the America we grew up in” and calling for “reason and civility,” the island protesters said, “Yeah America; Boo Trump.”

According to Indivisible, more than 1,300 separate protests brought out millions of people around the world to convey the message to Trump and Musk: “Hands Off Our Healthcare, Our Civil Rights, Our Schools, Freedoms and Democracy.”

Steve Miller lives on Islesboro