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Grass-Roots Organizers Channel Trump Protests Into Progressive Tea Party

Demonstrators gather near The White House to protest President Donald Trump's travel ban on seven Muslim countries on Jan. 29, 2017 in Washington. (Zach Gibson/Getty Images)
Demonstrators gather near The White House to protest President Donald Trump's travel ban on seven Muslim countries on Jan. 29, 2017 in Washington. (Zach Gibson/Getty Images)

Demonstrations against President Trump’s executive order restricting travel to the U.S. from seven predominantly Muslim countries came together in a matter of hours, with no discernible leader or single organizer.

Instead members of a self-professed “resistance” are organizing themselves online. Many of them are using a document that emerged in December called “Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda.”

That guide has been shared and downloaded more than a million times and is now the basis for a volunteer-led political organization called the Indivisible Project (@IndivisibleTeam). Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson speaks with one of its authors, Ezra Levin (@ezralevin).

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