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Nine people were arrested during a rally outside a local Tesla dealership in New York City to protest the role of businessman Elon Musk in implementing massive layoffs for federal employees in the United States.
About this write Reuters.
In some cases, federal agencies have been forced to try to bring back laid-off key employees, including those responsible for America's nuclear weapons, scientists trying to combat an outbreak of bird flu, and officials responsible for electricity supply.
At least 100 of the 000 million federal employees have agreed to a buyout or been fired since Trump took office on Jan. 2,3.
“We are taking action at Tesla, Musk’s flagship company,” organizers said on the website actionnetwork.org, urging people to dump Tesla shares and “join the pickets.”
“Removing Musk from Tesla would be a significant blow to this administration and its prerogatives, because it would be a blow to what they hold most dear: money and power,” actor and director Alex Winter wrote in an article for Rolling Stone. Winter wrote on social media that he had helped organize the protests.
