Indivisible\u2019s mission<\/a> is to empower and embolden the public to vote, through organizing protest demonstrations and resistance events.\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cWe have a right to protest; we have a right to speak,\u201d said Margaret Clark, 66, one of Indivisible Tallahassee\u2019s leaders. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The Tallahassee resident of 40 years has been involved in each of the \u2018No Kings\u2019 protests organized in Tallahassee as well as many other demonstrations including \u2018Hands Off\u2019 which, like \u2018No Kings\u2019, have shown up across the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She attributes her passion for organizing and democracy to her being the daughter of immigrant parents, who she says she can\u2019t let down.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going to fight for what they brought here,\u201d Clark said. \u201cThey left their country, their culture, their language to come here and raise us.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ion Sancho, 75, moved to Tallahassee in 1978 and has called it home since. He also served for 28 years as Leon County\u2019s supervisor of elections, something he feels nobly about.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He was the event\u2019s first guest speaker.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Ion Sancho, 75, speaks at No Kings rally on Oct. 17, 2026, in Tallahassee, FL. (Khalil-Lullah Ballentine\/FAMUAN)\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re supposed to be a lamp of freedom and liberty to the world,\u201d Sancho said. \u201cA nation that wasn\u2019t one race, a nation that wasn\u2019t just one group of people.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
His reason for attending the rallies and for public service stems from the story of his birth and how his parents were turned away from Queen\u2019s Hospital in New York simply because they were Puerto Rican.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The only hospital in the city that would take them was Harlem County Hospital, which he proudly says is on his birth certificate.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe in the Pledge of Allegiance that I said every day in public school,\u201d Sancho explained. \u201cWe should be living in one nation where liberty and justice applies to everyone.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
His urge to the public is to study history and to believe in the promise of America\u2019s dream.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rob Duarte, a Tallahassee resident in the Indian Head neighborhood, is a member of Puppets Rising where he and collogues planned for over a year how they could foster a place where immigrants felt welcomed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u2018No Kings\u2019 rally in front of the Florida State Capitol Building at the intersection of Monroe and Apalachee on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. (Khalil-Lullah Ballentine\/FAMUAN)\u00a0<\/p>\n
What they decided on were giant 10-foot\u00a0puppets depicting people of diverse ethnic backgrounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re all people who feel like we need a government and president that\u2019s caring and cares specifically about immigrants,\u201d Duarte said. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Around half a dozen puppets with people inside, and an entourage of people wearing eyeball hats came to the Capitol with the vision to inspire change.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis isn\u2019t namby pamby feel good stuff, this is real work,\u201d said Bob Williamson.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Williamson, 43, came with his wife and son to participate in the demonstration. He said that his wife is the one who got the family to attend together but was pleased to be able to show his son who recently started social studies what civic action looks like.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m glad we\u2019re all up here,\u201d he shared. \u201cIt\u2019s critical that we show up.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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