Demonstrators are set to take to the streets in the city and across the world on Saturday for another round of the “No Kings” protests.
“We expect a million people to be marching with us to demand hands off New York City,” said Donna Lieberman, the executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union.
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Demonstrators will take to the streets in the city and across the world on Saturday for another round of the “No Kings” protests
Leaders of the “No Kings” coalition, which is organizing the nationwide protest are hoping to build on the momentum from the global “No Kings” protest held on President Donald Trump’s birthday in June in opposition to many of his administration’s policies, including immigration, health care, the environment, gun control and voting rights
More than 2,000 protests are expected in cities and towns across the country, including several in every borough of the city
“The mission, really, in general is to save democracy,” Marian Downs of the Northeast Queens Indivisible group said.
Leaders of the “No Kings” coalition, which is organizing the nationwide protest are hoping to build on the momentum from the global “No Kings” protest held on President Donald Trump’s birthday in June in opposition to many of his administration’s policies, including immigration, health care, the environment, gun control and voting rights.
“Freedom of speech, the press and assembly,” Deidre Schifeling, the chief political and advocacy officer of the ACLU, said. “[These] rights are critical to our free society.”
“Let me be clear: President Trump and his allies are abusing their powers and attempting to scare their own citizens away from exercising our rights and freedoms,” she continued.
“These are faith leaders, teachers, veterans, small business owners who are being impacted by extreme and dubious — dare I say tariffs,” Sarah Parker, 50/50 national coordinator and executive director of Voices of Florida, said. “These are people who are seeing their friends and family members being kidnapped off of the streets.”
More than 2000 protests are expected in cities and towns across the country, including several in every borough of the city. Lieberman and the New York Civil Liberties Union are helping to organize a protest in Times Square.
“Americans don’t believe in treating people as second-class citizens,” Lieberman said. “They don’t believe in delegating women to second-class citizenship or Black people or brown people. Americans really do deep down believe in equal rights for all.”
The Northeast Queens Indivisible group has been busy recruiting volunteers to prepare for a protest there.
“If you look at dictatorships throughout history, there are people who are just comfortable with I’m just following this person and whatever they say,” Joanna Bueckert-Chan, a member of the Northeast Queens Indivisible group, said. “But that is not America and what it was founded on. That is not going to lead us into a democratic, hopeful future.”
NY1 reached out to the White House for a response from the Trump administration to the protests.
A spokesperson replied and said, “Who cares?”
House Speaker Mike Johnson recently called the protests a “hate-America” rally.