{"id":241329,"date":"2026-03-28T22:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T22:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/241329\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T22:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T22:20:07","slug":"voices-from-no-kings-protests-around-southern-california-daily-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/241329\/","title":{"rendered":"Voices from \u2018No Kings\u2019 protests around Southern California \u2013 Daily News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s what people attending \u201cNo Kings\u201d protests across Southern California<\/a> on Saturday, March 28 had on their minds:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe harm we are fighting did not begin with one administration, and it will certainly not end with one. For hundreds of years, our nation has partaken in state-sanctioned violence. Time and time again, each time wearing a new face. You are a slave to a system that does not want you to prosper, does not believe you are worthy and does not care whether you live or die. This is a system that was not created by Trump, yet it is the system that brought him to power.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Maya Singh Barrett, a 16-year-old student from Palos Verdes Peninsula High School, Rolling Hills Estates<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s evolved is not just the size of the gatherings, but the clarity of purpose. There\u2019s a growing recognition that this is not simply political. It\u2019s deeply spiritual. People are coming together not just to protest, but to embody a different way of being in community. Strangers handing out water and snacks. Checking on each other. A sense of neighborliness that feels almost countercultural right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Rev. Jonathan Stoner from All Saints Church, Los Angeles<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We will be able to tell our children and our grandchildren that when American democracy, the greatest experiment in governance in the history of the world, was under threat; maybe the gravest threat in our 250-year history, we stood up and saved it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, who was in the Los Angeles area and attended South Bay\u2019s protest<\/p>\n

\u201cI am concerned that America has lost itself and we have struggled to recall and hold on to our common humanity. Let\u2019s reflect on what binds us together. \u201c<\/p>\n

\u2014 Victor Gordo, Mayor of Pasadena<\/p>\n

\u201cYou need to show up. You need to let people know that you care. There\u2019s more of us than them. Now, I really think the tide is turning.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Suzane Pyburn, Long Beach resident<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, if you\u2019re reading anything about what, how this unfolds, they\u2019re using Putin\u2019s playbook. The fact (that) these things are manifesting, it frightens me. We have to be hopeful. We can\u2019t let go of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Mark Galloway, 75, retired Long Beach Unified School District teacher<\/p>\n

\u2018No Kings\u2019 turnout in Southern California will help smash records around the nation today, organizers say<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s what people attending \u201cNo Kings\u201d protests across Southern California on Saturday, March 28 had on their minds:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,138,100,2058,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-241329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-protest","14":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241329","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=241329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}