Nationwide ‘Tesla Takedown’ Demonstrations Bring Out Protesters, Counter-Protesters

About 10 protesters gathered across the street from a Tesla showroom in Austin, Texas, after noon on March 29 to criticize the company’s CEO. The demonstration along a stretch of North Highway 183 was one of hundreds organized across the United States on March 29, as part of the nationwide “Tesla Takedown” protest. The action takes aim at Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who, along with leading a range of business ventures, is also a senior adviser to President Donald Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency. Organizing the nationwide protest of Musk and DOGE, a nonprofit that supports left-progressive causes called the “Action Network” published an interactive map online, sharing protest times and locations. The Action Network website states, “Elon Musk is destroying our democracy, and he’s using the fortune he built at Tesla to do it.”...