{"id":11744,"date":"2025-10-18T19:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T19:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/11744\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T19:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T19:34:10","slug":"no-kings-protests-getting-underway-across-southern-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/11744\/","title":{"rendered":"‘No Kings’ protests getting underway across Southern California"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Protesters are beginning to gather Saturday in Los Angeles and elsewhere in Southern California<\/a> for \u201cNo Kings\u201d demonstrations, a nationwide effort<\/a> to push back against President Trump. <\/p>\n

In June, millions of demonstrators took to the streets across the nation for the first \u201cNo Kings\u201d protests as the Trump administration\u2019s agenda began coming into focus. At that time, the Department of Homeland Security had begun carrying out large-scale immigration raids across Southern California, and Trump deployed military troops to Los Angeles in response to mass protests. <\/p>\n

Since then, many Americans believe that Trump\u2019s actions \u2014 doubling down on immigration raids in major cities, deploying National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., and embarking on an aggressive campaign against political opponents \u2014 have only become more severe. <\/p>\n

Trump pushed back against the underlying premise of the protest in an interview with Fox<\/a> News on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re referring to me as a king,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m not a king.\u201d<\/p>\n

More than 2,700 \u201cNo Kings\u201d demonstrations are scheduled across the country, roughly 600 more events than in June, in which more than 5 million people participated. Demonstrations are already underway in New York, Chicago, Atlanta and Boston, drawing massive crowds. <\/p>\n

In an attempt to broaden the scope of \u201cNo Kings,\u201d organizers are appealing to Americans upset over the rising cost of living, gutting of environmental protections, sweeping overhauls of federal agencies, and the government shutdown over looming healthcare cuts. <\/p>\n

The protest in Los Angeles\u2019 Grand Park is expected to begin by 2 p.m. In Orange County, demonstrators are expected to arrive at Centennial Park in Santa Ana on Saturday afternoon to protest not only Trump\u2019s immigration actions, but also his policies on healthcare, environmental protections and education. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe the People have had enough of the illegal actions being carried out by this sham administration,\u201d Amy Stevens, one of the Orange County demonstration\u2019s organizers, said in a statement. \u201cChange starts from the bottom up.\u201d <\/p>\n

Organizers say the goal of \u201cNo Kings\u201d goes beyond just getting Americans out on the streets, hoping to connect people who are upset and frustrated with the Trump administration to local organizing groups.<\/p>\n

\u201cGetting involved in those groups, making those face to face connections and joining them will have a much larger impact over the next few days, the next few weeks, next few months, the next few years, than just one day of protest,\u201d said Hunter Dunn, a spokesman for 50501, one of the \u201cNo Kings\u201d coalition\u2019s core organizing partners.<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s rallies are happening amid a major disruption to one of Southern California\u2019s major freeways. <\/p>\n

The state announced Saturday morning that it would close a 17-mile stretch<\/a> of Interstate 5 for several hours after military officials confirmed that live-fire artillery rounds will be shot over the freeway during a Marine Corps event at Camp Pendleton. <\/p>\n

The unprecedented closure is expected to cause massive gridlock<\/a>, but it is not clear what impact, if any, it will have on the day\u2019s demonstrations. <\/p>\n

\u201cUsing our military to intimidate people you disagree with isn\u2019t strength \u2014 it\u2019s reckless, it\u2019s disrespectful, and it\u2019s beneath the office he holds,\u201d California Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement. \u201cLaw and order? This is chaos and confusion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Staff writers Jenny Jarvie and Nathan Solis contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Protesters are beginning to gather Saturday in Los Angeles and elsewhere in Southern California for \u201cNo Kings\u201d demonstrations,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[10869,10872,10873,664,48,52,51,10874,47,50,49,63,10870,10871,611,1562,592,3020,2058,595,1009],"class_list":["post-11744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-demonstration","tag-environmental-protection","tag-healthcare-cut","tag-king","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-large-scale-immigration-raid","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-many-americans","tag-next-few-day","tag-orange-county","tag-organizer","tag-people","tag-president-trump","tag-protest","tag-saturday","tag-southern-california"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11744","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=11744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}