Protesters are expected to gather along Grant Street in front of Pittsburgh’s City-County building Downtown for a third round of the nationwide No Kings protests Saturday. The growing series of rallies is aimed at opposing President Donald Trump and his administration’s agenda.
The protest is part of a nationwide day of action with more than 3,000 events planned across America. The demonstrations are supported by a coalition of organizations that include the American Civil Liberties Union, civil rights and social justice organizations, labor unions, local activist groups and community organizers. Organizers oppose many of the Trump administration’s signature policy directives.
“Trump wants to rule over us as a tyrant,” the official No Kings website reads. “But this is America, and power belongs to the people, not to wannabe kings or their billionaire cronies.”
At least two other No Kings rallies were planned in Pittsburgh Saturday — in the North Side and Shadyside — and a dozen more are slated across Western Pennsylvania.
Saturday’s event organizers specifically denounced ongoing immigration raids in American towns as well as the war with Iran and economic pressures felt by working class citizens.
“President Trump is sending masked agents into our streets, terrorizing our communities. They are targeting immigrant families, profiling, arresting, and detaining people without warrants,” Indivisible Pittsburgh, one of the organizations behind the event, said in a release. “What began … as a single day of defiance has become a sustained national resistance to tyranny, spreading from small towns to city centers and across every community determined to defend democracy.”
Thousands of people showed up for a similar rally in Pittsburgh in October.
This story is developing and will be updated.