From New York to San Francisco, from Chicago to Atlanta, millions of protesters are expected once again throughout the United States, this Saturday, October 18, to protest against the policies of Donald Trump and “defend democracy” at the call of the “No Kings” movement.
The previous national day of mobilization of this coalition that opposes Donald Trump and which brings together some 300 organizations had already brought together several million people throughout the country in mid-June, the same day of the military parade organized by the Republican president in Washington. It is the largest protest so far since his return to the White House.
Four months later, organizers recorded “more than 2,600” rallies, “in which millions of people were expected.”
“Abuse of power”
“Millions of Americans will demonstrate peacefully on Saturday to tell the Trump administration that we are a country where people are equal, a country where the laws apply to everyone, a rule of law and a democracy,” defends a leader of the important organization defending civil rights and public liberties ACLU, Deirdre Schifeling, during a video press conference on Thursday.
In the face of the “abuse of power by Donald Trump and his allies,” “we will not be silenced,” he promises.
“They send the National Guard into American cities. They terrorize our immigrant friends and neighbors. They sue their political opponents,” says Leah Greenberg, co-founder of the collective “Indivisible.”
“It is the classic authoritarian modus operandi: threaten, slander, lie and scare people into submission,” he continues. “But we will not be intimidated. We will not be impressed. We will not bow down.”
The president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), Randi Weingarten, considers it “a moral obligation to fight” to “try to ensure (…) that democracy advances and does not go backwards.”
Demonstrations have also been announced in Washington, Boston and New Orleans, cities where Donald Trump has already, for the first, or is considering, for the other two, deploying soldiers to fight crime in his own way.
Beyond the large cities, concentration points are planned throughout the country, and even to the Canadian border, in Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa.
Source: BFM TV
