Philip Nel, a board member of Indivisible MHK, American scholar of children\u2019s literature and Kansas State English professor, feels a protest like \u201cNo Kings 3\u201d empowers people by bringing them together.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople will say, \u2018Why protest, what is that going to solve?\u2019\u201d Nel said. \u201cWell, a single protest does not solve it, it\u2019s part of a broader strategy \u2026 showing people in your community and across the country that they are not alone. There\u2019s one tactic of authoritarians and authoritarian wannabees: to make you feel like you\u2019re alone, that you\u2019re powerless, that there\u2019s nothing you can do. But we are not powerless. The power of the people is stronger than the people in power, and we see that when we turn up to an event like this and we see other people, we realize that we\u2019re not alone.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe say that we don\u2019t consent to wars on a whim, we don\u2019t consent to fellow citizens being gunned down on the streets by ICE, or people being abducted and disappeared by ICE.\u201d<\/p>\n
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A protest helps demonstrate that we are committed. We are committed to restoring democracy, we are committed to our community and we\u2019re in for the fight.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Philip Nel, a board member of Indivisible MHK, American scholar of children\u2019s literature and Kansas State English professor<\/p>\n
Some believe the mass amount of protesters that participated in \u2018No Kings 3\u2019 across the country and in Kansas communicated another message \u2014 that loving and caring for your neighbors is a part of being American.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe spirit of \u2018No Kings\u2019 has been growing month after month as we build up this momentum, and it shows that people are realizing nothing is working better than it was 6 months ago,\u201d Colin McRoberts, candidate for U.S. House Kansas District 1, said. \u201cThey\u2019re seeing the failure and seeing the disasters, and even people who voted for Donald Trump or for Tracey Mann are now looking at tariffs and the war in Iran and realizing this isn\u2019t how things are supposed to be, but there is an answer. The answer is their neighbors, and the answer is voting for candidates instead of parties who see that something is broken and want to fix it. This is a reminder that this is what Americans do, it\u2019s what we should do, make that joyful noise because we care.\u201d<\/p>\n
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