Thousands of people are expected to rally downtown Saturday as part of a nationwide \u201cNo Kings Day\u201d demonstrations against the Trump administration, which will be among dozens of events scheduled across Los Angeles and Orange counties.<\/p>\n
In downtown, starting at 2 p.m., progressive podcaster, author and MSNow, formerly MSNBC, contributor Brian Tyler Cohen; Assemblyman Issac Bryan, D-Los Angeles; and ex-Trump staffer Jessica Denson are expected to provide remarks. The event will feature a 20-foot-tall balloon of President Donald Trump wearing a diaper, a 20-foot-wide by 3-foot-tall banner that reads \u201cNo Kings for U.S.,\u201d and thousands of handmade signs by participants as they march along a nearly two-mile stretch down Spring Street.<\/p>\n
Participants will then gather outside City Hall and Gloria Molina Grand Park.<\/p>\n
The L.A. protest is being organized by 50501 SoCal and Service Employees International Union Local 721, in partnership with Black Lives Matter Grassroots \u2013 Los Angeles, the Removal Coalition, Working Families Party, Black Women for Wellness, Clergy Laity United for Economic Justice, the TransLatin@ Coalition, Democracy Action Network, and the Human Liberation Coalition, among others.<\/p>\n
SoCal 50501 is the Los Angeles chapter of 50501, which bills itself as \u201ca peaceful, decentralized grassroots political movement with a mission to uphold democracy and constitutional governance.\u201d Its name stems from \u201c50 protests. 50 states. 1 Movement.\u201d<\/p>\n
A complete listing of events is available online at nokings.org, among them are the following:<\/p>\n
\u2014 10 a.m. at Alhambra Park, 500 N. Palm Ave.;<\/p>\n
\u2014 11 a.m. at Sherman Oaks Galleria, 15301 Ventura Blvd;<\/p>\n
\u2014 11 a.m. at Palisades Park, Ocean Avenue and Palisades Avenue, Santa Monica;<\/p>\n
\u2014 Noon at Lakewood City Hall, 5050 Clark Ave.;<\/p>\n
\u2014 Noon at Atlantic Avenue and Imperial Highway, Lynwood;<\/p>\n
\u2014 Noon at Malibu Library, 23519 W. Civic Center Way;<\/p>\n
\u2014 1 p.m. at Pasadena City Hall, 100 Garfield Ave.;<\/p>\n
\u2014 2 p.m. at Roxbury Park, 471 S. Roxbury Dr., Beverly Hills;<\/p>\n
\u2014 2:30 p.m. at Abraham Lincoln Park, 300 N. Buena Vista St.;<\/p>\n
\u2014 4 p.m. at Whittier City Hall, 13230 Penn St.;<\/p>\n
\u2014 11:30 a.m. at Huntington Beach Pier, 103 Pacific Coast Hwy;<\/p>\n
\u2014 Noon at Jamboree Road & Pacific Coast Hwy, Newport Beach; and<\/p>\n
\u2014 2 p.m. at 3000 W. Edinger Ave., Santa Ana<\/p>\n
Saturday\u2019s events are a follow up to the first \u201cNo Kings Day,\u201d held on June 14, which had more than five million people who participated nationwide, according to organizers. The demonstrations are intended to criticize the Trump administration for deployment of National Guard and U.S. Marines to American cities and states, which are led by Democrats, the aggressive federal enforcement against illegal immigration, trade and economic policies, among other issues.<\/p>\n
\u201cAmerica has no kings and working Americans will not stand by as a wannabe dictator wages war on our rights and our democracy,\u201d said David Green, president and executive director of SEIU Local 721, which represents more than 100,000 workers.<\/p>\n
\u201cEnough is enough. We will stop this authoritarianism in its tracks and work to revitalize and enhance our democracy, our rights, and our nation. We will not accept a regime that aims to put the interests of billionaires ahead of our families, workers, and communities,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Republicans have criticized the planned protests, describing them as \u201chate America\u201d rallies and claim they\u2019re exacerbating the federal government shutdown.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 1976, I landed in the United States of America as a legal immigrant,\u201d Roxanne Hoge, chairperson of the Los Angeles County Republican Party, said in a statement. \u201cIt was America\u2019s 200th birthday, a celebration of our original No Kings protest. It worked. The USA has no king. On Saturday, Republicans across the state will be working hard, enjoying their families, and taking time to stop the corrupt and unconstitutional power grab that is Proposition 50.\u201d<\/p>\n
Proposition 50, also known as the Election Rigging Response Act, is a proposed constitutional amendment that would temporarily set aside the state\u2019s Citizens Redistricting Commission and redraw the boundaries of California\u2019s Congressional districts to potentially create up to five new Democrat-held seats and counter a Republican-led push in Texas that would add five GOP seats. A statewide vote on the measure is set for a special election on Nov. 4.<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir boring, predictable tantrums are now part of the L.A. landscape, much like the dilapidated RVs and dangerous encampments that their policies result in. We are interested in good governance and public safety, and wish our Democrat friends would join us in advocating for both,\u201d Hoge added.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass in a statement said she supports the right of Angelenos and others to make their voice heard through peaceful protest.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe expect demonstrations this weekend to be safe, respectful, and consistent with the rights guaranteed to every resident under the Constitution. As always, the Los Angeles Police Department is expected to uphold those same rights \u2014 ensuring public safety while protecting the freedoms of expression and assembly and the rights of the press. We encourage everyone participating to stay peaceful and look out for one another.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, on Thursday, during a news conference, Gov. Gavin Newsom also encouraged people in California to protest peacefully.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy advice is, if you participate, do so peacefully, do so thoughtfully, because there\u2019s one person that hopes you don\u2019t, that hopes there is disruption, there\u2019s some violence and he will exploit that and he will take advantage of that in a profound and consequential way,\u201d Newsom said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope people come out in unprecedented numbers, and I hope they do it not just for themselves, but for each other, and for the 249 years that our founding fathers lived and died for \u2014 and those enduring principles that are at stake.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of people are expected to rally downtown Saturday as part of a nationwide \u201cNo Kings Day\u201d demonstrations…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[683,10681,166,217,6706,48,52,51,47,50,49,171,10682,10683],"class_list":["post-11474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-angeles","tag-counties","tag-county","tag-day","tag-kings","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-orange","tag-planned","tag-rallies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}