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Tesla Takedown "Mass Call" featuring Alex Winter, Jasmine Crockett and John Cusack [1]

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Date: 2025-03-19

This evening Tesla Takedown hosted a "mass call" which was on YouTube live, and can now be watched here. Before the meeting started I posted my city in the chat stream, then everyone started doing the same. AMAZING to see how many places were represented, people from all over the country and beyond! I could barely keep up with the feed!

Over 2,800 people were on the call at its peak, which was more than expected I think. Just to be clear, it was more of a live video presentation than a "call". But it was a very good presentation, with lots of great inspirational speakers. I'm not going to cover all of the speakers here, but you can watch the video if interested.

The main push of the speakers was a goal of having 500 Takedown Tesla protests on March 29. They want to protest every one of the 277 Tesla showrooms in the US, plus others abroad. They also encouraged protests even in areas that don't have a Tesla showroom. Protesting at Tesla charging stations is good too, of just on a busy street anywhere.

Actor Alex Winter gave a good talk, said he really did not like Elon giving the Nazi salute, and got involved with activism to help out. He also said that Elon Musk is the one responsible for taking down Tesla with his Nazi salute and attacks our democracy. He said of the Tesla Takedown movement: "It's just getting started"

Representative Jasmine Crockett gave a good talk, and said that she wants Elon taken down on March 29 because it's also her birthday. That would be a VERY nice gift. She said that money is the "language" politicians and businesses understand, so we need these nonviolent protests to take down Musk and reach the politicians.

Actor John Cusack, who is also an activist, had trouble un-muting his microphone. Very human moment. He got it working though. He said that Musk seems like a clown and buffoon, but actually did the sieg heil and is now doing mass criminality in our government, so we have to take him seriously. Also said that Musk is a "sociopath and a ghoul" who used his kid as a prop while taking aid from children in Africa. Cusack finished by saying that the only way to stop the people who "own society" is to make them "very afraid", and this movement is doing that. Musk is afraid. "This is the model that will affect change".

The call also featured Valerie Costa, the Seattle activist who was attacked on Twitter by Musk last week. Musk re-tweeted a post that accused her of committing crimes and a whole bunch of other nonsense. See picture. She said this created fear for her and her family. But she talked to an attorney, and decided to fight back. Musk is trying to stop a movement, so she cannot stay silent. She also said that people are sending messages thanking her from all over country and world. Also, Musk says empathy is the fundamental weakness of western civilization. She disagrees.

Lots of other good speakers, but I'll wrap it up here. Basically everyone agreed that Tesla is the weak spot, someone even said it was the "thermal vent", which I assume is a reference to the hole in the side of the Death Star. And I agree, this is the weak spot, it's time to get involved!

Please join your local protest, or start one yourself! Here's the link: https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/teslatakedown

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