SAN JOSE\u2014 With the midterm elections just weeks away, thousands of protesters in the Bay Area joined No Kings marches to promote early voting.<\/p>\n
Unlike previous No Kings protests, which focused on the Trump administration\u2019s policies, criticizing the U.S.- led war in Iran and the detainments, arrests and deportation of immigrants, Saturday\u2019s event emphasized the importance of voting.<\/p>\n
More than 1,000 gathered at a statue of former president William McKinley in St. James Park near downtown San Jose to support the No Kings: Vote Early protest, which started at noon.<\/p>\n
Protester Geri Wittig said it was a \u201ccritical time\u201d to reclaim the power \u201caway from all the corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be part of democracy, we have to vote,\u201d Wittig said. \u201cThere are people who have died for the right to vote and there are people dying because of the way things were in the last vote [election]. It\u2019s critical to turn things around with our votes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chanting \u201cVote!Vote!\u201d and \u201cNo justice, no peace, no kings in our streets,\u201d and holding placards, protesters marched toward the San Jose City Hall before heading back to the park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE\u2014 With the midterm elections just weeks away, thousands of protesters in the Bay Area joined No…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[193809,4978,17497,7733,7361,88,90,89,193810,1695],"class_list":["post-499597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-bay-area-protest","tag-downtown-san-jose","tag-early-voting","tag-no-kings","tag-protests","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-st-james-park","tag-trump-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499597","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=499597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}