Hundreds Attend ‘Hands Off’ Protest
On Saturday, April 19, 2025, approximately 450 people gathered in downtown Lambertville to protest. Participants ranged in age from kids to seniors, and included individuals as well as groups of friends and families.
The protesters met up on the corner of Union and Bridge Streets, and then marched across the bridge to the New Hope High School field where they waved banners and received supportive honks from drivers in passing cars.
With tempuratures in the 70s, many seniors didn’t take the walk all the way across the bridge into New Hope. Instead, they sat somewhere along the way and held up signs, one of which read, “Don’t take away my social security.”
The protest was organized by Indivisible Lambertville to end the takeover of Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, to protect our schools, our libraries, and all Americans, to expose the chaos, corruption, and cruelty of the Republican administration, as well as to uphold the Constitution, and end executive overreach.
“We have a lot of people here in town that are angry and devistated, and they don’t know what to do,” said Cindi from Indivisible Lambertville.
“People didn’t know April 5th was happening until after it happened, so we wanted to give people a chance to connect with the organization and understand that their voice matters. We lift every voice so that we can get some energy around this resistence, because now, more than ever, this mass mobilization is it. We’ve got to mass mobilize. This is building the muscle of our people here in Lambertville to be able to show up in this way.”
People came from all over to participate. Nicholas, who traveled from Queens, said, “I am protesting to get the country back. No king for America.”
Gary traveled from New Brunswick. He said there were many reasons why he attended, but the main one was, “This administration is sweeping people off the street and sending them to Latin America.”
Shelley, a local resident, said she was protesting to “stop them from stealing our country,” and Gwenn, also a local, said, “I knew I wasn’t the only one feeling this way, but I wanted to be reminded that I wasn’t alone.”
As the protesters lined the pedestrian walkway on the Lambertville-New Hope bridge, a person crossing in his car shouted, “Trump train!”
Another exclaimed, “F*cking losers. Go Trump!”
The driver of a small pickup truck blurted out, “That orange turd has got to go!”
As the group marched up West Bridge Street in New Hope, a person dressed in cycling gear pedaled past on his bike and yelled, “I’m walking with you!”
One protester’s sign read, “So many issues, so little cardboard.”
A man named Jack said he attended the Hands Off protest on April 5th in Princeton. He found it motivating, because his job had been directly affected by the Trump administration’s science cuts.
“I’m an educator,” explained a woman named Susan, “I can’t stand to watch what is happening in our schools. Our kids are watching us.”
“The people who are violating the law need to be investigated,” said a man named Jay.
Nam was there with his family. “We came because we don’t want to see the United States become a dictatorship like Russia,” he said.
“We’re here to preserve democracy,” his partner added.
Laura attended the protest because, “Our democracy is beyond under threat. It’s being destroyed right as we’re watching it, and there is nothing else we can do. Every single person needs to get out in the street and let our corrupt rulers know that we will not tolerate this. There’s nothing else to do at this point.”
Jenny was nearly moved to tears, “I feel like everything that I love about this country has completely been destroyed. Everyting that made me trust in this country is being destroyed. Everything that helps people that I work with love and trust this country is being destroyed, and I can’t stand by and watch it. I have to fight for it.”
Vicki said, “I’m here because I lived through the sixties and I’m back again. I’m dead serious, I want everything we won.”
Ava was more direct, “I want that *sshole gone, basically. That's it.”
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