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So many of you've been asking, what can you do if you're outraged by what Donald Trump and Elon Musk and their people are doing?

And you think Democratic Party politicians are being too milk toast.

One thing that's happening today, as some of you know, is a protest framed by its organizers as a 24-hour economic blackout,

a 24-hour economic blackout. It originated with a group officially formed just this month

called the People's Union USA. Their website says today's action is not aimed at Trump and

Musk specifically. Rather, it says, quote, the system as a whole,

both political parties, both past and current leaders and billionaires, have manipulated the

economy and profited off the working class, unquote. But many people have picked up on today's

boycott specifically as an anti-Trump and Musk protest,

also against major retailers that have dropped their DEI policies and more.

So listeners, we're covering the economic blackout in this segment, inviting you to call in

if you're participating and tell us what your reasons are, where you will or won't shop today, what good

you think it can do, and what else you're doing that you'd like other listeners to know about.

212, 433, WNYC, 212, 433, 9692, call or text.

With us to help take your calls and add the context of what he sees as a larger

protest movement that might be taking shape is John Nichols, National Affairs Correspondent for the

nation, and co-author with Senator Bernie Sanders of It's Okay to Be Angry About Capitalism,

which came out last year and made the New York Times bestseller list.

John, thanks for coming on.

Welcome back to WNYC.

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