The protest called “Hands Off Our Freedom” will have participants gathering on the College Avenue square then marching to nearby city hall in downtown Athens for music and speeches. A flyer for the protest notes the issues involved include public education, healthcare, undocumented residents and transgender people.

More than 1,100 “Hands Off!” protests and meetings are planned in nationwide demonstrations across all 50 states on Saturday in what organizers say are a response to the dramatic cuts to the federal workforce overseen by Trump adviser and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

Those balloons, along with an expected thousands of protesters in downtown Los Angeles, are part of the nationwide day of demonstrations, aimed at pushing back against the Trump administration’s spending cuts and mass layoffs of federal workers, which protesters say are threatening essential public services and social safety nets.