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Protesters filled the four corners of San Pablo and University avenues Saturday morning as passing cars honked in support. Credit: Sara Martin for Berkeleyside<\/p>\nProtesters filled the four corners of San Pablo and University avenues Saturday morning as passing cars honked in support. Credit: Sara Martin for Berkeleyside<\/p>\n
Leaders of Saturday\u2019s \u201cNo Kings\u201d\u00a0rallies across the country\u00a0are predicting that the protests against the\u00a0actions of President Donald Trump\u00a0and his administration could add up to one of the largest demonstrations in U.S. history.<\/p>\n
Organizers say\u00a0more than 3,100 events\u00a0have been registered in all 50 states, with more than 9 million people expected to participate. Previous No Kings days, in October<\/a> and June<\/a>, brought tens of thousands to the East Bay.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s what\u2019s planned Saturday in Berkeley and Oakland. We\u2019ll share photos later in the day. <\/p>\n Saturday, March 28<\/p>\n Berkeley events<\/p>\n Protesters will gather on the I-80 pedestrian overpass near Aquatic Park from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. More details<\/a>.<\/p>\n A protest is scheduled at the intersection of San Pablo and University avenues from 11 a.m. to noon. More details<\/a>.<\/p>\n Coinciding with the Bioneers conference<\/a> and with an environmental bent, a 1.4-mile march is planned from the UC Berkeley campus to Civic Center Park and on to the Downtown Berkeley BART plaza, at Center Street and Shattuck Avenue. Protesters will gather along Bancroft Way, near Zellerbach Hall, for a march to Civic Center Park to the BART plaza scheduled from 1:15 p.m. to 3 p.m.More details<\/a>.<\/p>\n A small group of older Park Hills residents are organizing a protest in the flats, on Sacramento Street in front of the North Berkeley BART station starting around 2 p.m.<\/p>\n Oakland march<\/p>\n The march starts at Frank Ogawa Plaza at noon with land acknowledgements and song and ends with a 2 p.m. rally at the Lake Merritt Amphitheater.<\/p>\n After that, at 2:30 p.m., march participants can disperse or choose from a range of activities, including a march to PG&E to protest the utility\u2019s contract with Palantir, led by the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment and three teach-ins: a Bay Resistance Noncooperation Teach-In at the main stage, outlining strategies for resisting authoritarianism; a teach-in supporting federal workers, led by the Federal Unionists Network; and a teach-in on the Oakland Arms Embargo campaign, which seeks to stop arms shipments to Israel from passing through Oakland Airport, led by Jewish Voice for Peace and the Arab Resource and Organizing Center, a campaign that has recently gained the support of\u00a0Mayor Barbara Lee<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0City of Richmond<\/a>.<\/p>\n Noon to 2:30 p.m. Protesters will gather at 11:45 a.m. on 14th Street, between Broadway and Clay Street, alongside Frank Ogawa Plaza, near the 19th Street BART station. More details<\/a>.<\/p>\n No Kings protests are being held across the country, and the globe<\/p>\n No Kings organizers designated the rally at the Minnesota Capitol in St. Paul as the national flagship event,\u00a0in recognition<\/a>\u00a0of how the state where\u00a0federal agents fatally shot two people<\/a>\u00a0who were monitoring Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown became an epicenter of resistance.<\/p>\n Headlining that observance will be\u00a0Bruce Springsteen,<\/a>\u00a0performing\u00a0\u201cStreets of Minneapolis,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0which he wrote in response to the deaths of\u00a0Renee Good<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Alex Pretti,<\/a>\u00a0and in tribute to the thousands of Minnesotans who took to the streets over the winter. Springsteen\u2019s\u00a0Land of Hope & Dreams<\/a>\u00a0American Tour, which has a \u201cNo Kings\u201d theme, kicks off Tuesday in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n The White House dismissed the nationwide protests as the product of \u201cleftist funding networks\u201d with little real public support.<\/p>\n \u201cThe only people who care about these Trump Derangement Therapy Sessions are the reporters who are paid to cover them,\u201d White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said in a statement.<\/p>\n Rallies are also planned in more than a dozen other countries, from Europe to Latin America to Australia, Ezra Levin, a co-executive director of Indivisible, a group spearheading the events, said in an interview. Countries with constitutional monarchies call the protests \u201cNo Tyrants,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n For those unable to attend in person, another activist group, Stand Up For Science, is hosting a \u201cvirtual and accessible\u201d event online.<\/p>\n On Saturday morning in Paris, several hundred people, mostly Americans living in France, along with French labor unions and human rights organizations, gathered at the Bastille.<\/p>\n \u201cI protest all of Trump\u2019s illegal, immoral, reckless, and feckless, endless wars,\u201d Ada Shen, the Paris No Kings organizer, said. \u201cIt is clear he doesn\u2019t really have a plan. It is clearly that the abuse of power is the point. It is very clear that he is a strong man who is abusing the authority vested in him by the American people as our elected president.\u201d<\/p>\n In Rome, thousands of people marched with defiant chants aimed at Premier Giorgia Meloni, whose right-wing government saw\u00a0its referendum for streamlining Italy\u2019s judiciary<\/a>\u00a0badly fail earlier this week amid criticism that it was a threat to the courts\u2019 independence. Protesters waved banners protesting the Israeli and US attacks on Iran, calling for \u201cA world free from wars.\u201d<\/p>\n U.S. organizers told reporters in an online news conference Thursday that they expect Saturday\u2019s protests to be larger than the first two rounds of No Kings rallies, which they estimate drew more than 5 million people\u00a0in June<\/a>\u00a0and more than 7 million\u00a0in October.<\/a><\/p>\n