{"id":334,"date":"2026-06-15T22:17:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=334"},"modified":"2026-06-15T22:17:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:17:33","slug":"san-francisco-sends-trump-a-birthday-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=334","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Sends Trump a Birthday Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><svg><g><g><g><\/g><\/g><\/g><\/svg><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<p>A post shared by San Francisco Chronicle (@sfchronicle)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On Saturday, on the eve of Trump\u2019s gaudy birthday celebration in DC (which will include UFC fighters promoting the kind of machismo and violence this president relishes), peaceful protesters in San Francisco had another kind of birthday message for our president and his allies.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=332\">The Curious Case of the Nadav Lapid Boycott Campaign<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At twelve noon on a foggy day in San Francisco, nearly 1,000 protesters flooded Ocean Beach to spell out the words \u201cEPSTEIN.\u201d Participants of all ages and backgrounds, many elderly, marched into careful formation, spelling out \u201cEPSTEIN\u201d inside a folder marked \u201cTRUMP.\u201d At the bottom a blue ribbon read \u201cFILES TO TRIALS,\u201d alongside an upside-down American flag\u2014the now-famous maritime signal of distress, held aloft by men and women, hundreds of strangers, working together.<\/p>\n<p>This creative \u201chuman banner\u201d protest was well-timed\u2014given this week\u2019s release by <em>The New York Times <\/em>of an excerpt from the book <em>Regime Change<\/em> by Maggie Haverman and Jonathan Swan. This book brings to light the frantic efforts of JD Vance and White House staff to cover up Trump\u2019s ties to the infamous pedophile Epstein and the infighting among them over what should\u2014or should not be\u2014revealed about Trump\u2019s own involvement with the sexual abuse of young girls.<\/p>\n<p>Brad Newsham, the human banner\u2019s innovator, reminded me that, even in these devastating times, it is the audacity of ordinary people stepping up that can make a difference.<\/p>\n<p>Newsham is a 74-year-old retired San Francisco taxi driver and published travel writer, who put his writing on hold in 2006 to join the movement to impeach George Bush for the falsehoods perpetrated in the name of the Iraq War. Frustrated with regular protests, Newsham said, he believed protests needed to use art and build more community\u2014but he didn\u2019t yet know how.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=330\">State Attorneys General Can Block the Paramount-Warner Merger<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Newsham\u2019s daughter taught him about Google Earth, a lightbulb went off; he imagined the concept of the human banner. In 2007, after 11 months of planning, he birthed the first human banner protest. Thousands signed up on his Facebook event page and flooded the beach to spell out \u201cIMPEACH\u201d with their bodies. The press sent the images around the world\u2013and just like that, his wild idea had an impact larger than he could have imagined.<\/p>\n<p>More banners have followed from Trump\u2019s inauguration up until now. Some human banners have spelled out \u201cNO KINGS,\u201d and \u201cFAMILIA,\u201d and, following Ren\u00e9e Good and Alex Pretti\u2019s deaths in Minneapolis, \u201cIT WAS MURDER\/ICE OUT.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This Saturday, after the aerial drones were done capturing the images from the protest, hundreds of protesters walked to the edge of the sea. In between hugging friends and grateful participants and giving instructions to the cleanup crew, Newsham told me the reason he does what he does: \u201cThey\u2019ve been lying to us forever. We want them to know it\u2019s a bunch of rich people running this country, running us into the ground\u2014and we want to put one more chink in the wall here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=328\">Trump\u2019s Iran Deal Is a Humiliation for Him\u2014and Good News for the World<\/a><\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nation Magazine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>San Francisco Sends Trump a Birthday Message - Atlas Living Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/atlaslivingmedia.com\/?p=334\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"San Francisco Sends Trump a Birthday Message - 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