On Friday, various sectors of the Trinidad and Tobago public participated in a protest march calling for the resignations of Attorney General Anand Ramlogan and Minister of National Security, Jack Warner. Various groups involved in the march included the opposition People's National Movement, the Movement for Social Justice (which recently pulled its support from the government), the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union and the non-governmental organisation Fixin’ T&T, among others. Jack Warner dismissed the protest, claiming that fewer people attended the march than voted for him in the last election. He also claimed that the march was almost completely Afro-Trinidadian. (The opposition People's National Movement is predominantly supported by Afro-Trinidadians; the United National Congress, which is the dominant party of the ruling People's Partnership government, draws most of its support from the Indo-Trinidadian community. Warner himself is Afro-Trinidadian.) Four days before the march, activist Philip Edward Alexander laid out his reasons for participating in the protest, comparing the Section 34 situation to the 1990 Coup: I put to you that the assault on decency and our democratic, law abiding way of life that was the surreptitious proclamation of Section 34 with clear designed intent ought to be considered one of the most evil of acts committed against this state and its people, and I am reminded again (although I forget who first said it) that the only difference between this terrible affront to justice and what occurred in those terrible days beginning July 27th 1990 was that this assault against the Parliament came from the inside. According to Alexander, the government has shown that it cannot be trusted: The denials upon denials in the face of mounting and glaring evidence to the contrary, the rewriting of history and all the other tried and proven articles of misdirection will continue on in earnest, but like all other examples of the guilty caught trying to hide the stolen cookie, crumbs have never been properly able to lie. He felt that the only way to send a message to the government was to take to the streets: It is pellucidly clear that this government needs to be sent a message as to the wishes of the public and on Friday November 2nd such an opportunity will become manifest as civil society, regardless of race, creed, class, gender and political persuasion come together to do just that. Sometimes it comes down to us. Our legislature, our House of Representatives and all that they represent need to be put right again, and as the fastest way to get to there is to punish the guilty in sure assembly, to remove from office all those who act against it then surely that is why we must march. On Friday, Rhoda Bharath explained why the march was destined to have a large turnout: Today, as more and more details of the section 34 issue [have] been revealed and more and more people realise the extent of the conspiracy perpetrated against the country, all of a sudden marching has become the fashionable thing. The people who wanted to make this about Keith Rowley and the PNM a few weeks ago are going to be out on the street en masse today because that’s how bandwagonists function. They diss an action that they are not in favour of in its early phases and then when they see the direction the wind shifts in all of a sudden their intellect kicks in and they find a plausible reason for joining and become even louder and more vociferous than the original members of a movement. It’s all good, once they pulling their weight. I guess the Lemmings have company today. Bharath also addressed those who have accused the protesters of seeking to destabilize the government: Another argument is that this March today is about causing political destabilisation…uhhh…YES…we don’t trust the Government. No electorate should have to be saddled with a Government it doesn’t trust, and to argue that we must put up with an untrustworthy government for five years is to play smart with foolishness. That’s why it’s called a democracy…we have the right to show our displeasure and I am going to show it.